Friday, October 25, 2013

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- October 25, 2013


US Eavesdropping: What's All The Noise About? -- Deutsche Welle

The German government is boiling. But on the other side of the Atlantic, allegations that the NSA eavesdropped on the German chancellor's mobile phone hardly caused a ripple. Some even say Germany should stop sulking.

Americans might have been happy to listen in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's telephone calls, but in the US, the eavesdropping of her mobile phone hasn't exactly been a hotly-debated topic.

It did manage to slip into the shows of certain high-level media outlets. CNN, for example, cited the chancellor's expression of disappointment at the EU summit. "Spying between friends - that just isn't right," she said.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

U.S. Has Annoyed and Angered All of Europe -- Roger Cohen, NY Times

Europeans are shocked -- shocked! -- about U.S. spying -- David Horsey, L.A. Times

Why would US spy on friends? Because it can, and it makes sense, experts say. -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor

Why We Spy -- Max Boot, Commentary

The Saudi-American Rupture -- Michael J. Totten, World Affairs

Why Norway won't destroy Syria's chemical weapons -- Valeria Criscione, Christian Science Monitor

Nuclear group: Time Iran would need to make uranium for a bomb 'too short' -- Jethro Mullen, CNN

Egypt's Got 99 Problems, But U.S. Aid Ain't One -- Mohamed El Dahshan, Transitions/Foreign Policy

Back to the bush: Dhlakama's high-risk gamble in Mozambique -- Pascal Fletcher, Reuters

Nigeria's bitter battle with Boko Haram -- Deutsche Welle

Is China Turning into 'Giant N. Korea'? -- A. Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph

In Europe, A Sense Of Shock And Betrayal Over American Spying -- Peter S. Goodman, Huffington Post

The euro zone is blighted by private debt even more than by government debt -- The Economist

Euro zone suffers from integration fatigue -- Jan Strupczewski and Martin Santa, Reuters

Why dozens of ethnic Somalis in Scandinavia are embracing jihad -- Tim Lister and Paul Cruickshank, CNN

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