2015년 3월 11일 수요일

Andy Borowitz | Iran Offers to Mediate Talks Between Republicans and Obama

Reader Supported News | 10 March 15 PM
It's Live on the HomePage Now:
Reader Supported News

Andy Borowitz | Iran Offers to Mediate Talks Between Republicans and Obama
President Obama and Senator John Boehner. (photo: Reuters)

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Stating that 'their continuing hostilities are a threat to world peace,' Iran has offered to mediate talks between congressional Republicans and President Obama."
READ MORE



Amy Davidson | Congress's Poison-Pen Letter to Iran
Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
Davidson writes: "Forty-seven senators, all of them Republicans, have sent a letter to Tehran that might be summarized this way: Dear Iran, Please don't agree to halt your nuclear-weapons program, because we don't like Barack Obama and, anyway, he'll be gone soon."
READ MORE

Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley | The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets
Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple's iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept."
READ MORE

Herzog Emerging as Credible Challenge to Netanyahu in Israeli Race
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times
Kershner writes: "Isaac Herzog was getting nervous about the traffic as his car crawled north out of Tel Aviv, on the campaign trail, so he instructed his driver to use the 'tchakalaka' - the deep, hornlike siren that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's convoy regularly employs to clear the way."
READ MORE

Racist Video Fallout Reaches Far Beyond Oklahoma Fraternity
John Bacon, USA Today
Bacon writes: "Oklahoma University on Tuesday expelled two students accused of playing a 'leadership role' in a fraternity's racist video."
READ MORE
US Criticizes Venezuela's Rights Record Despite Backing Repressive Regimes
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The U.S. president claimed Monday that the democratically-elected Venezuelan government poses a 'threat to national security,' due to a full compliment of alleged human-rights abuses."
READ MORE

Bill McKibben | How the Climate Movement Is Reshaping the Consensus View
Bill McKibben, Guardian UK
McKibben writes: "The good news is, that pressure is growing. In fact, that relentless climate movement is starting to win big, unprecedented victories around the world, victories which are quickly reshaping the consensus view - including among investors - about how fast a clean energy future could come."
READ MORE

댓글 없음:

댓글 쓰기