September 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 Foreign Policy blog, the CIA “oops, our bad!” on Iraqi WMDs.

^ From the Irish Times, how access to water could start wars between nations in the years ahead.

^ From The National Interest, how Greece could still screw up the world economic picture.

^ From The Diplomat, examining whether China has a super-destructive debt bomb.

^ From The American Interest, a look at Putin’s vast ambition in the Asian theatre.

^ From The Atlantic, another troubling look at head trauma among NFL players.

^ From the Washington Post, Bob Woodward’s story of the 2011 federal debt limit crisis.

^ From the UK Independent, Angela Merkel is facing new questions about her leadership style.

^ From Slate, Mitt Romney’s “interesting” stance on defense spending and Keynesianism.

^ From Time, the state of the New World Order.