RealClearWorld - Blog:
I have long felt that it is vanity for blogs and newspapers to treat news about the relay of news in the same way it does actual news. That said, there is something to be learned by watching the occasional trends in reporting. In a move that is getting a great deal of discussion in the military blogging community, Andrew Ex (Read More)
The Economist: News analysis:
Microsoft opens a new front in its battle with GoogleEVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. The world’s largest software firm should pay Time Warner, N (Read More)
The Economist: Daily news and views:
Microsoft opens a new front in its battle with GoogleEVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. The world’s largest software firm should pay Time Warner, N (Read More)
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The DPJ government is causing quite a stir:Japan's new government, already bickering with the United States about the location of a Marine air station on Okinawa, appears intent on revealing evidence of a decades-old secret pact between Tokyo and Washington that allowed U.S. ships and aircraft to carry nuclear weapons on st (Read More)
Worldfocus:
Mustafa Haji Abdinur, an AFP journalist and the founder of Radio Simba in Somalia, sits down with Martin Savidge to discuss the culture of violence in daily Somali life and the war against the independent press. Since 2007, fighting in Somalia has killed 19,000 civilians and displaced 1.5 million Somalis.(View full post to (Read More)
The Economist:
The founder of Salesforce.com explains how to start a businessIT IS not every management book that can include blurbs on its jacket from Anthony Robbins, a motivational speaker, and Neil Young, an ageing rock star, alongside the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. Yet it is not every company that is built on (Read More)
Worldfocus:
Please view the original post to see the video.Watch the full show from Tuesday, November 24: White House signals it’s made a long-awaited decision on how many new U.S. troops to send to Afghanistan; Britain launches a sweeping investigation into its role in the Iraq war; too much wind-generated electricity in Denmark; and, (Read More)
Worldfocus:
In advance of the international climate summit in Copenhagen, Worldfocus examines the green revolution in Denmark. Last week, we showed you how everyday Danes profit from pioneering wind power. But there’s a challenge — how to store that power when the wind isn’t blowing, or in the case of solar power, when the sun isn’t sh (Read More)
worldpolicy.org:
It could have been a powerful image—America’s first multicultural president promoting the benefits of an ethnically diverse society to the Chinese—but during his trip to China this week, Barack Obama chose to steer clear of comments that could be perceived as lecturing the Chinese on their (poor) human rights record, and th (Read More)
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Obama administration officials have announced that the president has finished gathering information about the situation in Afghanistan and will likely address the nation on Dec. 1 about the strategy, which reportedly includes planned troop increases.White House sources state that the goal is to weaken the Taliban insurgenc (Read More)
Worldfocus:
Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by Rebecca Haggerty and Ben Piven.PHILIPPINES: At least 46 people were killed in one of the deadliest acts of political violence ever in the Philippines. President Gloria Macapag (Read More)
RealClearWorld - Blog:
Although I have no scientific data to back this up, I think it's safe to say that I take a backseat to very few people in my criticism of recent US trade policy. That said, I've grown quite concerned with a growing number of media reports that a recent spike in US trade remedies (i.e., antidumping and countervailing duty) c (Read More)
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This news today surely puts this news about the president's decision to pour 34,000 additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan into sharper relief:Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led roughly 20 young Americans to join a violent ins (Read More)
The Economist: News analysis and views:
British police keep a much larger DNA database than anyone elseDNA databases kept by police forces have grown all over the world since Britain launched the first one in 1995. England and Wales have since amassed profiles of 8.7% of their population, by routinely taking samples from everyone arrested. Samples are held for si (Read More)