2014-02-21 EIN DAILY
We’re playing around. None of the RSS / curation offerings are satisfactory.
COUNTRIES: Week Ending 2014-02-22
01 Brazil Brazil’s coffee belt grapples with rare threat: dry heat 02 China It’s official: China overtakes India as top consumer of gold 03 Cuba Majority Want Normal Relations with Cuba 04 Ecuador Chevron’s own lawyers jeopardize fate of Chevron-Ecuador RICO lawsuit 05 India India to follow new OECD standard to combat black money 06 …
NIGHTWATCH: India Begins Military Support for Afghanistan — Robert Steele Comments
India-Afghanistan: Indian Minister of External Affairs Slaman Khurshid said on 15 February that India will provide helicopters to Afghanistan. “We are giving them helicopters and we will be supplying them very soon,” Khurshid told reporters accompanying him on a day-long visit to the Afghan city of Kandahar, where he inaugurated an agricultural university built with …
Berto Jongman: John Bell on Age of Dissent
The age of dissent Why are people resorting to street politics across the globe? John Bell Al Jazeera, 11 February 2014 John Bell is Director of the Middle East Programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace in Madrid. In 2012, after the beginnings of the Arab revolutions, Paul Mason, editor at BBC’s Newsnight programme, …
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Worth a Look: Recent Books on 12 Major Political Players
David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs
War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …
Chuck Spinney: Should US Leave Afghanistan? Is BBC Out of Its Mind? Robert Steele Comments
The attached BBC report/video by John Simpson describing Afghan attitudes toward the US/UK exit struck me as bizarre. The weight of Simpson’s gist is that most Afghans do not want us to leave. But the report based most of its information on interviews in Kabul and only a short part (the wobbly part) on the …
