STANDPOINT by Atique Naqvi

  As populations grow, the energy needs are increasing too. There is a strong trend toward energy diversity. Canada and Sweden are an integral part of this significant change. ** By Atique Naqvi aka Syed Atique Hussain, Boston, United States Nuclear in Canada is a six-billion-dollar industry With 36 million people in Canada and 10 million in Sweden, both countries have been taking steps to diversify their rising energy needs. With new technologies and better safeguards, nuclear energy generation is considered as a safe and an efficient way to produce power. According to the Washington D.C.-based Nuclear Energy Institute, Canada produced 95,650 Gigawatt hours (GwH) in 2016 through nuclear framework contributing 15.6% of the total energy produced in the country. On the other hand, Sweden generated 60,640 GwH in 2016, which was 40% of the total energy production, says the Institute. Despite its challenges, the nuclear-powered electric...

Ice Age for the Internet By Atique Naqvi aka Syed Atique Hussain, Boston, United States The United States might be entering the Internet ‘Ice Age’ after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed Net Neutrality on December 14, 2017. Professor Timothy Wu from Columbia Law School coined the term Net Neutrality in 2003, and he sees the latest de-regulation by the FCC as the advent of the ‘Ice Age’ for the Internet users - 326 million in the United States. All the big guns from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) spectrum, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T et al, have come out in full force saying the recent FCC move won’t affect the Internet users in the US. So, why the so-called ‘mainstream media’ has been creating such a ruckus over this issue? We should believe what ISP firms are telling us because corporations don’t lie and if they do, they are held accountable by the strong justice system. Remember 2008 subprime crisis and Goldman Sachs! The motto of the c...