Thomas Friedman on Snowden|NYT
Friedman opens with: “I’m glad I live in a country with people who are vigilant in defending civil liberties. But as I listen to the debate about the disclosure of…
David Brooks: The Solitary Leaker|NYT
David Brooks: The Solitary Leaker writes about Snowden in the New York Times: “Though thoughtful, morally engaged and deeply committed to his beliefs, he appears to be a product of…
David Simon on the Edward Snowden scandal
“Is it just me or does the entire news media — as well as all the agitators and self-righteous bloviators on both sides of the aisle — not understand even…
Casper Ravnsted-Larsen: Cyprus can be an omen of a divided EU
Casper Ravnsted-Larsen posted North and South: Cyprus can be an omen of a divided EU on Google Plus. My take on the subject: For a start, study languages and travel…
US envoy’s assassination in Libya and demonstrations across the Arab world
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html The point of embassies and diplomacy is to maintain relations between states and governments, even in a time of ubiquitous, instant telecommunications. The whole point of attacking embassies is…
Broadcast Engineering celebrates quality of NBC Olympic coverage
Broadcast Engineering celebrates the quality of NBC’s 2012 Olympic coverage, extolling the technical setup and the quantity of material provided across various platforms and channels http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/better-faster-stronger?page=1 Obviously the technology was…
Aurora shooting: gun lobby sincerely believes not enough people were killed
US mourns Aurora victims If anybody is serious about bringing the people responsible to justice, they should go after the gun lobby, in the first place. Is it likely to…
El Pais: Las víctimas desconocidas del Holocausto
Unos 350 soldados de EE UU estuvieron presos en los campos de concentración nazis, según una investigación del Museo del Holocausto de Washington. El Pais: Las víctimas desconocidas del Holocausto.…
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
I find it difficult to summarise Stiglitz’s piece in Vanity Fair, May 2011, simply because I think that he makes his point so clearly, in as few words as possible,…
ZDNet The Apple Core: Why Apple gadgets can’t be made in the U.S.
Jason D. O’Grady writes on ZDNet Why Apple gadgets can’t be made in the U.S.: “During Thursday night’s debate in South Carolina CNN host and moderator John King asked the…