From the Express Tribune, an English language newspaper published in Pakistan which has a relationship with the NY Times-owned International Herald Tribune: Saudi, Chinese and Pakistani intelligence officials to meet in IslamabadA trilateral meeting between intelligence officials from Saudi Arabia, China and Pakistan will held in Islamabad today, Express 24/7 reported.The trilateral meeting between officials […]

The oncoming European sovereign debt crisis continues to barrel down the road at 65 miles per hour, and European leaders are still frightened and frozen in the headlights like a hapless herd of deer.That at least is the read on this weekend’s IMF summit in Washington DC, where apocalyptic warnings by the normally laid back […]

Shuja Nawaz has an in-depth look at Pakistan in the American Interest print edition and it is also available on line.  Highly recommended.

William Galston is one of the smartest thinkers on the Democratic side of the aisle, and this candid and thoughtful assessment he’s published at The New Republic makes sober reading for his colleagues.   According to Galston, the tilt away from the Democrats toward the GOP between 2008 and 2010 continues today.  As the electorate continues […]

[Updated: earlier version stated the victims were killed.  22 are injured; their condition is not known.]A misguided fanatic in central Java wrapped himself in an explosive device, nails and other forms of murderous shrapnel, entered a Christian church and detonated the bomb during worship services, injuring a reported 22 people.  The New York Times report […]

Financial markets have never been shakier, the Middle East is riven by so many crises and conflicts that Iran has been pushed off the front page, and the European Union could be headed for the definitive crisis of its history, but art goes on — and in particular in New York, the Metropolitan Opera opens […]

Good news from California.  The NYT has the story: So, using a new state law known as the parent trigger, organizers at an underperforming school here in Compton collected hundreds of signatures from parents who said they were fed up. Parents were eager, they said, to turn it into a charter school, where students would […]

That is the dire prediction of Dr. Atul Gawande, a noted writer and surgeon who practices at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and who Boston.com calls one of the most powerful and influential people in the medical community.  This is the story he told at a recent speech as reported by the Boston Globe‘s Chelsea […]

Argentina is a textbook case of a country telling foreign investors to stay away.  That isn’t the official message, of course, but it is the only possible way to interpret recent events. According to the New York Times: A judge has subpoenaed six newspapers for the names and telephone numbers of all reporters and editors […]

The Solyndra scandal threatens to blow up into the first truly major scandal of the Obama administration. This is, as Via Meadia readers know, bad news for the administration on several levels; besides the obvious ethical issues, the Solyndra scandal makes the President appear incompetent or worse when it comes to job creation.  The scandal […]