Newsletter 698
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[6]Did He Feel Good?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LITt7q
Ian Penman | City Journal | 8 June 2012
Superb piece on godfather of soul James Brown, pegged to new biography.
"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business rubbed up against the worst
dreams of men and ultimately paid a heavy, soul-consuming price"
[7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/did-he-feel-good
[8]Leaking War
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MAVezB
Peter Van Buren | Nation/TomDispatch | 12 June 2012
Black is white and white is black, says whistleblower. "Leaks that
favour the president are shoveled out regardless of national security,
while national security is twisted to pummel leaks that do not favour
him" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/leaking-war
[10]Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NuO5FD
Michael Pettis | Credit Writedowns | 11 June 2012
"If global liquidity contracts and if markets around the world pull
back, our imaginations will once again turn to the increasingly visible
costs of globalization and away from the potential for all peoples to
prosper" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/will-globalization-go-bankrupt
[12]The Heart Of The Matter
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MIbCS6
John Hussman | Hussman Funds | 11 June 2012
Sobering read on prospects for global economy. The elephant in the
room? "A warped financial system that directs scarce capital to
speculative and unproductive uses, and refuses to restructure debt once
that debt has gone bad" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/heart-matter
[14]We Isolate And Overload Germany At Our Peril
Links:
14. http://b.rw/KO99qQ
Gideon Rachman | FT | 11 June 2012
Angela Merkel deserves more credit that she is getting for her handling
of the euro crisis. The aim is a durable political fix, which will take
time, and she's just about managing to keep German public opinion in
line (Free reg/$) [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/we-isolate-and-overload-germany-our-peril
[16]A Book Lover's Guide To Reading And Walking At The Same Time
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MnbKpt
Lev Grossman | Time | 6 June 2012
"Short bursts is the approach. You look for a stretch of open sidewalk,
maybe a half a block, you hastily memorize the major obstacles, and
then you glance down at the book. You look up again and digest the
words as you walk" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/book-lovers-guide-reading-and-walking-same-time
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Gavin Knight on Gang Crime
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/gavin-knight-on-gang-crime
Inner-city crime is a matter of deprivation not race, and comes from a
street culture that respects extreme violence, says the author of a new
book based on two years among British gangs and the police units
covering them [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/gavin-knight-on-gang-crime
Featured Special Report
[20]Mitt Romney
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
He has clawed his way to the finishing line for the Republican party
nomination. But what makes the man who would be president tick?
[21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k RT @[23]paulstpancras: Europe - No Alternative to Debt
Mutualisation: [24]t.co/3sTD7dPq via @[25]SPIEGELONLINE
#[26]browsings #[27]eurocrisis #[28]gfc2
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/paulstpancras
24. http://t.co/3sTD7dPq
25. http://twitter.com/SPIEGELONLINE
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
[29]More like this
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[30]Men of Honour by Judge Giovanni Falcone
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/cose-di-cosa-nostra-men-honour-truth-about-mafia-by-giovanni-falcone
[31]John Dickie says: “Based on an interview with a French journalist a
few weeks before Falcone was killed, this is an account of what the
Cosa Nostra is and how it works”[32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-dickie-on-italian-mafia
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Alain de Botton: Acrasia
Links:
33. https://thebrowser.com/videos/alain-de-botton-acrasia
Religions are strong, because they understand human weakness [34]More
videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Ruth Franklin, on books
Links:
35. http://www.ruthfranklin.net/blog/?p=10
"Anyone who doesn’t believe that books have the power to harm is not
taking them seriously enough"
[36]More quotes
Links:
36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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