July FDH Lounge News Nuggets

By Rick Morris

We’re adapting a segment that we have used on our show repeatedly in order to try to highlight some of the more intriguing news headlines going today.  We have also posted links here for geopolitical headlines in the past and we’ll work this into this theme.  Much like The FDH Lounge itself, we’ll try to keep it broad-based as far as what is catching our eye.

^ From The Long War Journal, why the drone program cannot defeat al Qaeda by itself.

^ From Vanity Fair, a look at how this presidential cabinet has stacked up compared to what was promised.

^ From Baseline Scenario, a survival guide to the end of the Euro.

^ From The American Conservative, Israel is encircling Iran.

^ From Foreign Policy Blog, the question of whether US Special Forces are secretly working within North Korea.

^ From Stratfor, how Egypt proves that people saw what they wanted to see with the “Arab Spring.”

^ From The Atlantic, how global financial panic has become rational.

^ From The Diplomat, Iran is hoping for help from Russia and China in their battle with the West that may not come.