Seeing the bigger picture

New Statesman - A soon-to-be published collection of photographs demonstrates that art is vital in helping us understand the impact of human beings on the environment.

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The Resentment Strategy

NY Times, by Paul Krugman - The Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. Resentment, no matter how contrived, is a powerful force, and it’s one that Republicans are very, very good at exploiting.

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Palin: the real scandal

Independent - Behind her beaming smile and wholesome family values is a woman aligned with the big oil and coal firms that are racing to exploit Alaska’s vast energy reserves. In the short term, that has bought her popularity at home.

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Only a combination of deterrence and detente can meet this challenge

Guardian, by Timothy G. Ash - As you read this, another corner of Europe has been ethnically cleansed. That means young men murdered, old women driven out of their lifelong homes, villages plundered and torched. As in Bosnia, so now in South Ossetia, with the butcher’s work largely done by irregular militias. “We [...]

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Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground

Spiegel - Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world’s biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with promises. But is this just another form of economic colonialism?

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The heretical Czechs

Economist - The Czechs have a taste for something more subversive: the questioning of big planks of EU conventional wisdom. This matters a lot right now. On January 1st the Czechs will take over the rotating presidency of the EU, chairing all meetings and setting the agenda for the following six months.

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War in Georgia exposes NATO’s fault lines

IHT - “There is no common basis upon which to judge which countries should join the organization or what NATO wants to do with a bigger alliance,” said Gunilla Herolf, a security analyst at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Until that issue is resolved, trips to Georgia by NATO ambassadors will merely disguise [...]

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