TW: The Sunday reading list:
1) From Int'l Herald Tribune on why China wants to get to the Moon, while we apparently do not care anymore. Why? Not all power is hard, symbols have meaning and implications!!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/12/opinion/edlee.php
2) From Fortune an article describing the CDO/CDS mess, a straightforward primer for those interested and a great lesson on how financial wizardry outpaced regulations and common sense
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/30/magazines/fortune/varchaver_derivatives_short.fortune/index.htm
3) A book review from IHT on Andrew Bacevich's book on the evolution of American power. He is one of those folks to whom we should listen.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/arts/BOOKMER.php
4) From IHT a piece by Leslie Gelb realism as the basis for American foreign policy. Basically he liked the Bush pere team and expresses the hope that Republican and Democratic realists could re-unite in driving American foreign policy.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/01/opinion/edgelb.php
5) From Economist how European cities are dealing with the integration of their growing Muslim populations
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12724966
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