ashley rindsberg - Search Results
Ashley Rindsberg What if Iran got nuclear weapons? This geopolitical thought-experiment is not as radical as it might sound – at least not for people in the policy world. It is, after all, a scenario of the political game Washington is grappling with on the Iran issue and it's almost certain that President Obama, as a rational realist, has posed this question to himself and to others around him. / While the question is interesting, it's Mr. Obama's answer that everyone wants to know. It's here that another counterfactual can be posed: What if the president considers that outcome (of Iran possessing.. Location: Featured Articles > Archive |
Ashley Rindsberg "Who am I?" -- the first three words of Nadja, the surrealist novel by the father of the movement, Andre Breton. Even if you've never read these words, said them out loud, or thought them explicitly, they still feel intimately familiar. / "Who am I?" is the individual's question, the poetic question, and, consequently, the surrealist's question. It's the question a person asks when he's been given no framework to understand the world and so sees life as an unsolvable enigma, yet imagines the purpose of living to be finding the solution. It's the question of an orphan,.. Location: Featured Articles > Archive |
Ashley Rindsberg Only hours after a bomb ripped through a parking lot at Madrid's international airport, Spain's leftist prime minister, Jose Zapatero, declared a halt to negotiations with the alleged perpetrators of the bombing, the Basque independence group, ETA. / / In a press conference following the bombing, Zapatero expressed a very sober and well-reasoned position: "There can be no dialogue with violence," he said, referring to recent pledges by the government to maintain a ceasefire and hold talks with the ETA. And thus, with one quick and decisive move (and with no confirmation that ETA actually.. Location: Featured Articles > Archive |
Ashley Rindsberg On April 30, 2007, the Jewish community of Nicaragua elected two new members to its board of directors. Under any other circumstance, the election of the board members would not have been a noteworthy event, especially in a country where the tiny Jewish population amounts to only 50 people. But the election of the two board members in Nicaragua sparked a firestorm within the community: the two new members were not Jewish. To solve the problem and patch up the quickly forming cracks in the community, the assembly decided to accept the new members on the basis that ‘anyone who feels Jewish in the.. Location: Featured Articles > Archive |
All rights reserved © JNI 2010
