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looking beyond borders

foreign policy and global economy

Author: lookingbeyondborders

Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 26, 2012August 26, 2012

The New Yorker Tells Us What Happened That Night in Abbottabad When U.S. Navy Seals Went In To Get Osama Bin Laden

Read Here – Getting Bin Laden

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 25, 2012

As The Euro Zone Goes Into Another Recession, Germany Is Slowing Down. Can The Locomotive Pull Others Out Of The Mire?

Read Here – The Economist  

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 25, 2012

Opponents of an Israeli strike on Iran have focused their ire on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But it’s his hawkish defense minister, Ehud Barak, who is really driving the talk of war.

The Decider – http://www.foreignpolicy.com Read Here

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 25, 2012

Strategic Error

When the Big Picture misses the point. Read Here – Foreignpolicy.com

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 25, 2012

Germany, the Scapegoat of Europe

The more Germany tries to save the Eurozone, the more it become the union’s scapegoat. The best response: ignore the populists, and keep on trucking, Sebastian Pfeffer writes in the European. Read Here

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 25, 2012August 25, 2012

Drought Is Good For Business, Says World’s Largest Commodities Trading Company. Is There a Moral Issue here? Some Say Yes!

The United Nations, aid agencies and the British Government have lined up to attack the world’s largest commodities trading company, Glencore, after it described the current global food crisis and soaring world prices as a “good” business opportunity. Read Here – The Independent

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 24, 2012

A Revived Spat Between Japan And South Korea Unsettles the United States, Says The Economist

Read Here – History Wars in Northeast Asia 

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 24, 2012

With the overthrow of Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq by a CIA-led and British-backed coup d’état on 19 August 1953, the landscape of Western involvement in the Middle East was forever changed.

Read Here – The Economics of Overthrow – Studies in Intelligence

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 24, 2012

Why Washington Should Leave Regime Change To the Iranians

Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, argues that both threatening war and continuing to impose sanctions are unattractive options for Western governments’ responses to the Iranian nuclear program. Read Here – Foreign Affairs

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersAugust 23, 2012

Cyberspace Is Too Important For Its Security To Be Handed Over To Those Who Want To Lock It Up

Shashi Tharoor argues in his piece in The Hindu – Read Here

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