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Monthly Archives: July 2017
The Russians Were Involved. But It Wasn’t About Collusion. – by Daniel Hoffman – NYT
“I know all this from having spent much of my 30-year government career, including with the C.I.A., observing Soviet, and then Russian, intelligence operations. I came to realize that President Vladimir Putin, who spent his formative years in the K.G.B., … Continue reading
Liu Xiaobo and the Decline of China – by Brett Stephens – NYT
“The core mistake is to assume that values aren’t inputs. “The process of abandoning the ‘philosophy of struggle’ was also a process of gradual weakening of the enemy mentality and elimination of the psychology of hatred,” Liu wrote in a … Continue reading
Self-Driving People- Enabled by Airbnb – by Thomas Friedman – NYT
“Roughly a decade ago two new “platform” companies burst out of California. The one that dominated the headlines was called Uber, which created a platform where with one touch of your phone you could summon a cab, direct the driver, … Continue reading
‘Make It So’: ‘Star Trek’ and Its Debt to Revolutionary Socialism – The New York Times
“H. G. Wells’s foundational work of political science fiction, “The Time Machine,” predicted a future in which a small utopia of sprightly elites is kept running by a subclass that lives below the ground and is reduced to bestial violence. … Continue reading
Macron’s Shaky Embrace of de Gaulle – by Robert Zaretski – NYT
“General de Villiers told the French media that Mr. Macron had promised he would fulfill his campaign pledge to increase military spending to 2 percent of G.D.P. from around 1.78 percent. And Mr. Macron has seemed sympathetic, making several visits … Continue reading
Mr. Macron Starts Making Waves – The New York Times
“Surprisingly, for France, the first of what promises to be a tough series of domestic confrontations was with the military, which is traditionally quiet in public. Facing budget cuts equivalent to nearly $1 billion, the top general of the French … Continue reading
Don’t Tinker With Nafta. Fix It. – The New York Times
“In 2011, PKC, a Finnish auto parts company in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, thwarted its employees’ efforts to choose their own union to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement. The company interfered with a union election and terminated employee labor activists. BMW … Continue reading
Avoiding War With Iran – The New York Times
“The last thing the United States needs is another war in the Middle East. Yet a drumbeat of provocative words, outright threats and actions — from President Trump and some of his top aides as well as Sunni Arab leaders … Continue reading
Era of ‘Biological Annihilation’ Is Underway- Scientists Warn – The New York Times
“From the common barn swallow to the exotic giraffe, thousands of animal species are in precipitous decline, a sign that an irreversible era of mass extinction is underway, new research finds.The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National … Continue reading
A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet – The New York Times
“There is simply no credible way to address climate change without changing the way we get from here to there, meaning cars, trucks, planes and any other gas-guzzling forms of transportation. That is why it is so heartening to see … Continue reading
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