Foreign Affairs: George Kennan, Michael McFaul, and Their Paranoid Hosts – The Perils of Serving as Ambassador to Russia The Lede: A Bahraini Activist Explains the Standoff Over Formula One Foreign Policy Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East Blog vanuit Cairo: Gaza, politiek vs. verzet TIME:…
The Guardian: In Pakistan, saying goodbye can be a religious statement Buzzfeed: Heartbreaking Photos Of A Troubled Iraq War Veteran Win Pulitzer Prize Foreign Policy: Rotting From Within – Investigating the massive corruption of the Chinese military The Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0417/Nobel-laureate-Shirin-Ebadi-speaks-out-against-Iran-sanctions Emirates 24/7: Saudi Arabia bans ‘gays, tom-boys’ from schools At War: On a…
Foreign Policy: How to Pirate Proof Your Tanker Salon: The Etch-A-Sketching begins BBC: Uzbekistan’s policy of secretly sterilising women Gawker.com: How Sean Hannity Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Teleprompters Channel 4: New Sudan, but the same old violence The Wall Street Journal: Iran Talks Déjà Vu – Obama gives Tehran reasons to doubt his…
Rolling Stone: Rahm Emanuel Has a Problem With Democracy The Economist: American Indians – Gambling on nation-building Foreign Affairs: The Arab Spring at One Slate: Paul Ryan’s Risky Ideas The Nation: Egypt’s Looming Economic Shock Doctrine The Wall Street Journal: ‘Jackie Kennedy of China’ at Center of Political Drama The Atlantic: Should the World Trust Islamists?…
Grist: Incredible NASA images of Saudi Arabia’s careless use of water The New York Times – On The Ground: In Syria, Some Assad Loyalists Waver The Guardian: The meaning of 9/11’s most controversial photo The Independent: The real hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices – and the poor lose out The Independent: Man…
Foreign Policy: Israel’s secret staging ground Egypt Source: Is Egypt “Change Blind”? Channel 4: A very strange case – the British man arrested in Somalia International Herald Tribune: Kurds, Marginalized, Could Be Key to Syrian Revolt’s Success The Independent: Robert Fisk – On Lebanon’s border, silent Syrians are flocking to an unknown future The Guardian:…
