Newsletter 295
[2]Inside The GOP's Fact-Free Nation
Links:
2. http://b.rw/dSX4jK
Rick Perlstein | Mother Jones | 25 April 2011
How lying became a normal part of American politics. Many presidents told
lies occasionally. Reagan made it a habit. Now it's considered rude to call
out a lie. "Balanced" media reporting treats truth and lies with equal
respect [3]Comments
Links:
3. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-gops-fact-free-nation
[4]The Wrath Of Abbas
Links:
4. http://b.rw/eNXh3t
Dan Ephron | Newsweek | 24 April 2011
Mahmoud Abbas is frustrated with Barack Obama, especially over Israeli
settlements. "We both went up the tree. After that, he came down with a
ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump. Three times he did
it" [5]Comments
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wrath-abbas
[6]The Financial Exploitation Of Models
Links:
6. http://b.rw/f7wqZm
Jenna Sauers | Dis | 25 April 2011
Aspirant fashion model's memoir. "Within eight weeks I owed €4,255 to the
Elite agency in Paris. I kept at it another two years, until I owed over
$10,000. This is a partial accounting of the bad decisions I made in that
time" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/financial-exploitation-models
[8]Medieval Origins Of Nazi Anti-Semitism
Links:
8. http://b.rw/ezQCGi
Nico Voigtländer et al | UCLA | 25 April 2011
Academic paper (PDF). German cities with worst anti-Jewish pogroms during
the Black Death (1348-50), also had most violence against Jews in 1920s,
most votes for Nazi Party, biggest deportations, worst Kristallnacht
destruction [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/medieval-origins-nazi-anti-semitism
[10]Washington On The Rocks
Links:
10. http://b.rw/gxz4xA
Alfred McCoy and Brett Reilly | TomDispatch | 24 April 2011
US world order was based on national leaders who served Washington as
"subordinate elites". Now this "motley collection of autocrats, aristocrats
and uniformed thugs" is crumbling, it threatens to take US global influence
with it [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/washington-rocks
[12]100 Rules For Being An Entrepreneur
Links:
12. http://b.rw/gBFntG
James Altucher | Altucher Confidential | 25 April 2011
Actually, there are only about 70 rules here. But, as the last rule says,
always be looking out for things you can change. "Depressions, recessions,
don’t matter. There’s $15 trillion in the economy. You’re allowed a piece of
it" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/100-rules-being-entrepreneur
FiveBooks Interview
[14]Tarek Osman on the Arab World
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tarek-osman-on-arab-world
The Egyptian author and journalist discusses Egypt’s past and present and
the main issues facing the post-revolutionary Arab world
Featured Topic
[15]Financial Crisis
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed
include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background
articles
Reader Recommendations
_@nplusonemag_: Why student loans might be the next bubble to burst:
_[16]bit.ly/hU6c5N_ _#longreads [17]#browsings_
Links:
16. http://bit.ly/hU6c5N
17. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/satanic-versus-novel-by-salman-rushdie
[19]Anthony Julius says: “The Satanic Verses represents a moment of
liberation – the end of the Cold War, but also the inauguration of a
different kind of struggle”
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anthony-julius-on-censorship
Video of the Day
[20]Obama 2012 Strategy Briefing
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/obama-2012-strategy-briefing
Campaign manager Jim Messina records a video for activists, explaining how
Barack Obama can win re-election
Quote of the Day
[21]Christopher Hitchens, on age
Links:
21. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/24/amis-hitchens-world
"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't
make old friends"