Macleans
Palestinian Arabs present a challenge to Israel that is at once more straightforward and infinitely more difficult to solve. Within one or two decades, the number of Muslim and Christian Arabs living under Israeli control including in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself will surpass the number of Israeli Jews. When that happens, if […]
International Herald Tribune
China’s government agreed on Friday to a meeting with an envoy of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, a step that follows weeks of calls from world leaders for dialogue in the wake of anti-government protests in Tibet.
“In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side for resuming talks, the relevant […]
I know that I don’t have a ton of readers these days, mostly due to my negligence in posting frequently, but for those that I have, I would be interested in the answer to the following questions:
What level of deficit spending do you think is appropriate? (Some, very little, none, or negative in order to […]
The Associated Press
The first results from an election recount under way show President Robert Mugabe’s party has won an additional parliamentary seat, state media reported Wednesday.
Election officials began recounting ballots in 23 districts over the weekend, most of them won by the opposition. The recount could prove pivotal for the ruling party, which lost control […]
I predict that Hillary wins by about 10 points and that it won’t change anything in the race.
WSJ.com
Over the past 15 months, we have proved that we can win this war. We stand now at the moment of truth. Victory – and a democracy in the Arab world – is within our grasp. But it could yet slip away if our leaders remain transfixed by the war we almost lost, rather than […]
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but gasoline might
Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of “green gasoline,” a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees.Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry & Sustainability, Energy & Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer […]
Reuters
Iran has started to install 6,000 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, an expansion of nuclear work the West fears is aimed at building bombs.Diplomats in Vienna told Reuters last week that Tehran was installing advanced enrichment centrifuges at the underground Natanz facility, accelerating activity that could give […]
New York Times
Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father’s New Hampshire victory in January […]
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