Epstein Secrets

nstead, it has to do with two issues. The first is the U.S. electoral timetable. The presidential election creates an imperative for U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid any unexpected fallouts -- economic or otherwise -- of a military strike against Iran. Peres understands that ignoring Obama's concerns an

sident Barack Obama to avoid any unexpected fallouts -- economic or otherwise -- of a military strike against Iran. Peres understands that ignoring Obama's concerns and instead banking on a victory by Republican candidate Mitt Romney in November, as Netanyahu seems to have done, is very risky if not

election creates an imperative for U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid any unexpected fallouts -- econom

after January's inauguration day, whether he is President Obama in a second term or Republican challenger Mitt Ro

ity, Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens, even if their living standards remain higher than those of most Arabs in the region. As we know from Deuteronomy, "Man does not live by bread alone." This distrustful ignorance of the other can be found everywhere in Israel. Or almost everywhere, for there is

It's Not So Simple Peter Baker March 1, 2014 -- President Obama has warned Russia that "there will be costs" for

oes to War David Remnick Article 2. NYT Making Russia Pay? It's Not So Simple Peter Baker Article 3. The Washington Post Ukraine crisis tests Obama's foreign policy focus on diplomacy over military force Scott Wilson Article 4. NYT From the Pyramid to the Square Thomas L. Friedman _ Articl

ed by Christian fundamentalists who were literally relying on the Word of God as their guide. One wildcatter in the 1960s was led by a passage from Deuteronomy to conclude there was oil located somewhere on the ancient lands of the tribe of Asher, on "the foot of Asher" between Haifa and Caesarea. No luck.

disposable income. But then it fell back again, perhaps because people found they simply could not afford to save. Consumption held up because the Obama stimulus plan boosted incomes. But that boost will be strictly temporary. And then what? Betting the balance-sheet Why managers loaded their compan

reward for capital, a concept that goes back to Aristotle and is implicit in the Christian idea of usury. Islam forbids it altogether. The book of Deuteronomy suggested a debt amnesty every seven years, which survived into later Jewish custom. But conventional morality has not always been on the side of th