A woman walks amidst ''Cool Globes,'' an exhibition about combating global warming and climate change in the center of Copenhagen today. Photo from Radio Free EuropeA Skeptic's Guide to Copenhagen -- Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast
As the global summit on climate change gets under way in Copenhagen, Tunku Varadarajan offers an eyebrow-raising A-Z guide to the proceedings.
Very nearly a hundred years ago, Ambrose Bierce compiled A Devil's Dictionary, in which he sought to puncture the cultural cant of his time. Here is an attempt—at much shorter length—to prick a very contemporary kind of cant, that which has swollen the debate on climate change to ungovernable proportions.
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Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama's Afghan Surge -- Time Magazine
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President Obama’s dangerous Afghan gamble -- Hillary Mann Leverett, Politico
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