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Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [13 Sep 2012]

13 September 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Seven Lean Years Of Peacemaking

Daniel Levy | IHT | 11 September 2012

"The debate within Israel today is in a very different place from where most outside observers think it is. New dividing lines have emerged. There are now three competing tendencies within Israel's ruling coalition" Comments

The Persecution Of John Kiriakou

Peter Van Buren | Huffington Post/TomDispatch | 11 September 2012

"The one man in the whole archipelago of America's secret horrors facing prosecution is former CIA agent John Kiriakou. He is staring down a tunnel at a potential sentence of up to 45 years in prison. And he didn't torture anyone" Comments

It Ain't Necessarily So

Anthony Gottlieb | New Yorker | 10 September 2012

On the evolutionary roots of human behaviour. Popular, expanding, attention-getting academic field. Sex and gender take centre stage. But it's all storytelling. We can't be sure how our traits were established, and it doesn't matter Comments

Nobody's Century: The American Prospect In Post-Imperial Times

Chas Freeman | Middle East Policy Council | 5 September 2012

Speech. "The only real menace to our freedoms is our own willingness to supplant the rule of law with ever more elements of a garrison state, [while] the so-called war on terror has become an endless run in a military squirrel cage" Comments

Boy's Own Broadmoor

Patrick McGrath | Intelligent Life | 11 September 2012

Novelist recalls growing up in high-security psychiatric hospital, run by his father, housing some of Britain's most violent criminals. "As a small boy you tend not to think about whether you're having an unusual childhood" Comments

Crushing Debt Drove Me To Kosovo – And Then To Iraq

Anonymous | Billfold | 11 September 2012

Writer emerges from two degrees weighed down by $90,000 in debt. How to go about paying that lot off? Find tax-free work that no one else wants to do. This is how a landscape architecture graduate ended up running Iraq's elections Comments

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