NEWS DESK> Notes on Washington and the world by the staff of The New Yorker. David Holmes DECEMBER 6, 2011 The New Yorker via RSN To view: Photos from inside and outside the Global Seed Vault, located on a remote Norwegian island. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKMwigI3mdM&w=560&h=315] To watch: Protesters attempt to thwart police efforts to More
Pakistan Threatens Air Defense at the Border to Counteract NATO Strikes David Dayen Friday December 9, 2011 12:16 pm Fire Dog Lake People would rather not focus on the litany of undeclared wars this country currently fights, but when one of the adversaries considers putting defensive weaponry at the border More
Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action Stephen Zunes Sunday 4 December 2011 Nation of Change “This has not come, in most cases, from a moral or spiritual commitment to nonviolence per se, but simply because it works.” While sitting in a Cairo café just a couple blocks from Tahrir Square a More
Israeli Intransigence On Palestine Isolating Both The U.S. And Israel Thursday, November 24th, 2011 | Posted by Sherwood Ross by Sherwood Ross The U.S. and Israel “now looked trapped together, weakened and dangerously isolated” during the Arab Spring over Israel’s intransigence on statehood for Palestine, an article in The New Yorker magazine charges. “A more creative Israel would More
