The news about the European economy is steadily getting worse, and now that the US election is over I suspect that we will start getting more news about it. Perhaps the most distressing bit of information are the rates of youth unemployment in Europe: those rates are a harbinger of things to come as young people are statistically more likely to engage in political protests.
The Pentagon is reporting that Iran fired on a US drone while it was in international airspace. I’m not sure why the media are so breathless about this event. I sincerely doubt that firing on an unmanned device designed for spying would be considered by most as a major act of war. The US could probably ask the Iranians to pay for the drone, but a casus belli? Please.
The dramatic protests against Chinese rule in Tibet are continuing and increasing in frequency as a record number of young Tibetans immolate themselves. The protests are clearly timed to embarrass the Chinese while the Party Congress is going on, but there is little indication that the Chinese government is paying much attention. The outside world will have to make sure that these protests cannot be ignored.
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