New York Times: Will Israel Attack Iran? By Ronen Bergman January 25, 2012
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Ronen Zvulun/Reuters Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, on right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Published: January 25, 2012 RECOMMEND TWITTER LINKEDIN COMMENTS (32) E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE As the Sabbath evening approached on Jan. 13, Ehud Barak paced the wide living-room floor of his home high above a street in north Tel Aviv, its walls lined [...]
Excerpt i watch news: ‘Free-for-all’ decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific January 25, 2012
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By Mort Rosenblum and Mar Cabra Peru’s ‘Vanished’ Anchoveta Peru is the world’s second largest fishing nation after China. The ramshackle port of Chimbote – the country’s biggest – lands more fish than the entire Spanish fleet catches in a year. Here the issue is not just the over-fishing of jack mackerel but also anchoveta, which looks like an [...]
The New Yorker: The Obama Memos by Ryan Lizza January 24, 2012
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THE POLITICAL SCENE THE OBAMA MEMOS The making of a post-post-partisan Presidency. by Ryan LizzaJANUARY 30, 2012 Hundreds of pages of internal White House memos show Obama grappling with the unpleasant choices of government. On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, [...]
International Crisis Group: Iraq and the Pretense of Control January 12, 2012
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Joost Hiltermann, The European | 12 Jan 2012 When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, its chest was swelled with self-confidence: A new democratic state would rise and prosper once Saddan was ousted. Nine years later, we know how unfounded that optimism was. The future of Iraq will not be controlled from Washington but by the [...]
Eurasia Group: Ian Bremmer and David Gordon Announce Top Risks for 2012 January 9, 2012
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As we begin 2012, political risks dominate global headlines in a way we’ve not experienced in decades. Everywhere you look in today’s global economy, concerns over insular, gridlocked, or fractured politics affecting markets stare back at you. Continuation of the politically driven crisis in the eurozone appears virtually guaranteed. There is profound instability across the [...]
Link: Why U.S. must step carefully in Syria January 6, 2012
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/03/opinion/rabil-syria/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Only $34,000 a year, after taxes, to be among the richest 1% in the world. January 4, 2012
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Americans make up half of the world’s richest 1% Print Comment By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoney January 4, 2012: 11:41 AM ET It only takes $34,000 per person to be amid the richest 1% of people in the world. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world’s rich people. It only takes [...]
Standpoint January/February 2012: Excerpt from “The Limits of Secularism” by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks January 2, 2012
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”And of course sometimes atheists — and I mean great atheists, really great atheists — can sound incredibly eloquent. The most eloquent piece of atheism I have ever read is by Bertrand Russell, who really was a stylish atheist, a serious atheist, and a thinker I like very much.” That man is the product of [...]
How the Higgs Boson Could Change the Universe by Lisa Randall, Harvard University Theoretical Physicist December 21, 2011
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Dec 19, 2011 12:00 AM EST Scientists have spent decades looking for the elusive Higgs boson. They may have just gotten one step closer to finding it, and unlocking the mystery of how we all got here to begin with. The excitement from Europe earlier this month was palpable. Experiments had hinted at the discovery of a [...]
