Newsletter 89

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Writing Worth Reading

* [2]C-Section Needed For Middle East Peace
Daniel Levy | Huffington Post | 31 August 2010
Netanyahu won't make peace so US should go over his head to the Israeli
people. But if there's an Israeli 'yes' to de-occupation gestating
somewhere it'll still take US surgery to bring it out
* [3]Life In America's Toughest Jail
Erwin James | Guardian | 1 September 2010
Former prisoner in Arizona tells of gang violence, overflowing toilets,
food green with mould. And a horrendous anecdote about an asthmatic
cellmate and a cockroach
* [4]Island Holds Darwin's Best-Kept Secret
Howard Falcon-Lang | BBC | 1 September 2010
Interesting, little known story of how Darwin created a fully
functioning, yet total artificial, ecosystem on Ascension Island. Could
it have implications for future colonisation of Mars?
* [5]Date That Will Live In Oblivion
George Packer | New Yorker | 1 September 2010
Obama's speech, trying to put a brave face on US combat troop
withdrawals from Iraq, was "rare moment of dishonesty and
disingenuousness". Other troops will stay, violence will continue, Iraq
is a wreck
* [6]Leaving Iraq, Remembering Roy
Blake Hall | WP | 29 August 2010
Remarkably moving piece of writing. US officer pays tribute to brave
young interpreter who joined Americans after al-Qaeda beheaded two of
his classmates. Spoiler: it doesn't end happily
* [7]Tony Blair On Gordon Brown
Martin Kettle | Guardian | 31 August 2010
In his memoirs, and in accompanying interview, ex-leader says he doesn't
regret Iraq, does regret fox-hunting ban, and that Gordon Brown always
had "zero emotional intelligence"
* [8]Google's Earth
William Gibson | NYT | 31 August 2010
"Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, visited
periodically. Now cyberspace has turned itself inside out, colonised the
physical, making Google a central structural unit of the world"
* [9]Sarah Palin: Sound And Fury
Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair | 1 September 2010
Assassinatory, highly readable profile of right-wing heroine, portrayed
throughout as mean, angry, mendacious, aggressive, cynical,
borderline-unbalanced. And a bad mother
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[10]Today on FiveBooks: Max Mosley on Privacy
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