Ward Wilson | May 30, 2013 | Foreign Policy Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject of emotional debate. Initially, few questioned President Truman’s decision to drop two atomic bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, in 1965, historian Gar Alperovitz argued … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
On Stalin’s Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick, book review: Uncle Joe’s henchmen
Mary Dejevsky | Thursday 22 October 2015 | The Independent Fitzpatrick challenges the one fact about Soviet history that everyone in the Western world and beyond thinks they know Sheila Fitzpatrick's latest book comes with a central thesis that challenges the one fact about Soviet history that everyone in the Western world and beyond thinks they know: that Stalin was a … [Read more...]
What will happen in 2016?
Alex Hern, John Henley, Dan Roberts in Washington,Tom Phillips in Beijing, Shaun Walker in Moscow, Julian Borger, Ian Sample, Owen Gibson, Helena Smith in Athens and Mark Rice-Oxley | Thursday 31 December 2015 | The Guardian Space explorers, genetic scientists, US voters, terrorists and hackers look set to dominate our world next year – but don’t rule out the … [Read more...]
Higher Gas Prices, Long Lines: What Cheap Oil Means For Saudi Arabia
Deb Amos | 31 December 2015 | NPR A new era in Saudi Arabia was demonstrated at gas stations across the country on Monday night: Long lines of cars stretched from the pumps as drivers filled up to beat price hikes announced by the government earlier in the day. It was an unusual scene for the world's largest oil producer, but it underscored the economic impact of … [Read more...]
The World Today – THE WAR IN YEMEN
The World Today with Tariq Ali Z … [Read more...]
ITALIANS PROTEST ERITREAN DISORDER
The New York Times | 13 Dec 1949 Three Powers Told Natives Intimidate Ex-Colonials - Asmara Under Curfew … [Read more...]
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan sign new deal on Nile dam
30 Dec 2015 | Aljazeera English French firms to study environmental impact of Grand Renaissance Dam as Ethiopia pledges to respect Egypt's interests. Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have agreed on which firms will carry out studies on the potential impact of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam on the flow of the Nile, their foreign and water ministers said.Cairo and Addis Ababa … [Read more...]
Watch Barack Obama cry as Aretha Franklin performs ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ live
Jess Denham | 30 December 2015 | The Independent https://youtu.be/5RIgeu-6Jcs Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [1967] … [Read more...]
Changing America’s Culture of Greed
John W. Traphagan | 30 December 2015 | The Huffington Post Bernie Sanders has gained quite a bit of momentum in the US presidential election as he candidly points to the sources of many social ills and offers solutions that make sense. A few years ago, in response to a group of 80 CEOs cynically publishing a letter lecturing Americans about deficit reduction and urging … [Read more...]
Veteran Algerian opposition figure Ait-Ahmed dies
2015-12-24 | FRANCE24 Hocine Ait Ahmed, one of the heroes of Algeria’s war of independence against France and a leading opposition figure, has died in Switzerland at the age of 89, official sources said on Wednesday. One of nine founding members of the resistance to French colonial rule in the 1950s, Ait-Ahmed helped launch the independence war that eventually brought … [Read more...]