Friday, May 27, 2016

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 27, 2016



Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic: Obama’s Historic Hiroshima Visit

The president is the first sitting American leader to make a trip to the city that was bombed by the U.S. with a nuclear device.

President Obama became the first sitting American leader to make a trip to Hiroshima, the Japanese city bombed by the U.S. with an atomic device in 1945, and called for a “moral revolution” to accompany technology such as nuclear weapons.

“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us,” Obama said in a speech after a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. “The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.”

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 27, 2016

Who wrote Obama's Hiroshima speech? -- Julian Borger, The Guardian

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Moral Necessity -- George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

For Japanese, Obama's Hiroshima visit is historic – but complicated -- Roland Kelts, CSM

ISIS, losing territory in Syria, signals strategic shift -- Taylor Luck, CSM

The Mansour Killing Raises as Many Questions as Answers in Afghanistan -- Steven Metz, WPR

America's Doomed China Strategy -- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest

Is North Korea nuclear state? -- Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., Korea Times

China And Japan On A Collision Course With The US -- Panos Mourdoukoutas, Forbes

How Russia Engineers Its New Patriotism -- Samuel Bendett, Real Clear World/DW

Russia and Saudi Arabia Are Headed for a Showdown -- Nikolay Pakhomov, National Interest

Freed by Russia, Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' may prove thorn in own leaders' side -- Pavel Polityuk, Reuters

Releasing Nadia Savchenko Is Putin's Poisoned Gift to Kiev -- Russia Insider

Central Banks Can't Go It Alone Anymore -- Mohamed A. El-Erian, Bloomberg

For the record: Stephen Harper’s lasting legacy -- MaCleans

Peter Thiel’s mission to destroy Gawker isn’t ‘philanthropy’. It’s a chilling taste of things to come -- Marina Hyde, The Gaurdian

2 comments:

RRH said...

If I were a Russian I'd be no fan of the liberal clique, anymore than I am a fan of Canada's. That being said,I tend to agree with this assessment. It reinforces my opinion that the government of Russia is basically liberal social democratic (with Russian characteristics).

The "left" will have to do much more than propose Soviet prescriptions for current problems if they are to gain any traction. They do have some folks with the smarts (e.g. Glazyev) to do so, and the government is vulnerable on terrain "close to the people" such as wages and health care.


http://theduran.com/putins-team-united-talk-purge-wrong/

RRH said...

Stephan Harper's legacy,

Aligning Canada with one of the worst regimes on the face of the planet.


http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54041#.V0j52mgpBpV