February 2009

You don’t deserve to be rich By Matt Miller, Daily Beast, February 22, 2009 The sooner we shed our illusion that people end up financially where they deserve to, the faster we’ll fix the economy. Yes, it should have been obvious before, but now that a seemingly endless parade of bankers have made fortunes while [...]

What we don’t know will hurt us By Frank Rich, New York Times, February 22, 2009 And so on the 29th day of his presidency, Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill. But the earth did not move. The Dow Jones fell almost 300 points. G.M. and Chrysler together asked taxpayers for another $21.6 billion and [...]

Israel launches covert war against Iran By Philip Sherwell, Daily Telegraph, February 16, 2009 Israel has launched a covert war against Iran as an alternative to direct military strikes against Tehran’s nuclear programme, US intelligence sources have revealed. It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime’s illicit weapons project, [...]

Job losses pose a threat to stability worldwide By Nelson D Schwartz, New York Times, February 15, 2009 The International Monetary Fund expects that by the end of the year, global economic growth will reach its lowest point since the Depression, according to Charles Collyns, deputy director of the fund’s research department. The fund said [...]

Global economy top threat to U.S., spy chief says By Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, February 13, 2009 The new director of national intelligence told Congress on Thursday that global economic turmoil and the instability it could ignite had outpaced terrorism as the most urgent threat facing the United States. The assessment underscored concern inside [...]

Kahane won By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, February 8, 2009 Rabbi Meir Kahane can rest in peace: His doctrine has won. Twenty years after his Knesset list was disqualified and 18 years after he was murdered, Kahanism has become legitimate in public discourse. If there is something that typifies Israel’s current murky, hollow election campaign, which [...]