Thursday, 17 January 2013
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Performing like clockwork
Canberra Times
17 Jan 2013
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With its brisk dialogue and smart storytelling, The Hour - starring (from left) Dominic West, Romola Garai and Ben Whishaw - is first-rate summer viewing. UNLESS SBS's Copper ... The backdrop of the show is the first fictional current-affairs program at the BBC, the titular Hour, which in the first season launched in 1956 against the backdrop of the Suez Crisis and the Cold War ... The Hour uses its setting for vivid criminal conspiracies ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
U.S. Neocons Should Heed Hagel’s Eisenhower Model
Bloomberg
16 Jan 2013
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The conflict between Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for U.S. secretary of defense, and his neoconservative detractors feels personal. Hagel once disparaged the neocons as “chicken hawks,” and the neocons call Hagel “an appeaser.” ... “I don’t believe it ... to intervene ... (It was Eisenhower who used economic pressure to turn back a joint Israeli, French and British invasion of Egypt during the Suez crisis in 1956.) ... Comments ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)
Enrique Meneses: Acclaimed photojournalist
The Independent
14 Jan 2013
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Take some pictures, it might be fun." ... But the report launched his career ... After a four-month, 27,000 kilometre odyssey from Cairo to Cape Town without taking a single plane flight to try to record the rapidly changing face of Africa in the 1950s, his reports and photography ranged from the Suez Crisis and Cuba to the 1963 March on Washington and wars in Angola, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh ... Enrique Meneses, photojournalist ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)
Her Majesty's Secret Service
Wall Street Journal
14 Jan 2013
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By ANDREW ROBERTS ... Corera, the security correspondent for the BBC ... Corera's are the second ... Mr ... Enlarge Image. Close ... Mr. Corera is predictably scathing about this particular "license to kill," but when one considers the devastating effect that the 1956 Suez Crisis had on Britain's global standing—effectively ending its great-power status and imperial pretensions—it is easy to understand British Prime Minister Anthony Eden's demand to MI6 ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
Channeling Ike
Foreign Policy
11 Jan 2013
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With President Obama's nomination of former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense, some have argued that Hagel's views parallel those of another former service member who went into politics. Dwight Eisenhower ... Hagel has stated an explicit admiration for Eisenhower, his worldview and leadership style, in such cases as the 1956 Suez crisis. COMMENTS (0) SHARE.. Twitter  . Reddit  . More... 1234NEXT ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
Happy to be a pillar of the Establishment
Sydney Morning Herald
11 Jan 2013
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LORD REES-MOGG, 1928-2012. Lord Rees-Mogg, one of the towering figures of journalism over the past half a century, was a pillar of the Establishment virtually from cradle to grave. It was not a notion that displeased him ... I think it’s a good thing, the Establishment.” ... William Rees-Mogg was born on July 14, 1928 ... The year of the Suez crisis was not an auspicious moment for this endeavour and the seat was obviously unwinnable....(size: 11.6Kb)
David Ignatius: On foreign policy, Obama acts like Ike
Herald Tribune
10 Jan 2013
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WASHINGTON ... Like Ike, he wants to trim defense spending and reduce the national debt ... • Eisenhower made an open break with Israel in 1956 during the Suez crisis ... Email ... But if Hagel decides that negotiations are deadlocked -- and that military options really are urgently necessary -- this transformation will get Tehran's attention.</p><p>• Eisenhower made an open break with Israel in 1956 during the Suez crisis ... ....(size: 10.0Kb)
Time To Be Like Ike
Real Clear Politics
10 Jan 2013
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WASHINGTON -- It's telling that one of Chuck Hagel's favorite gifts to friends recently has been a biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero whose skepticism toward the military is a model for Hagel's own. Thinking about Eisenhower's presidency helps clarify the challenges and dilemmas of Barack Obama's second term ... -- Eisenhower made an open break with Israel in 1956 during the Suez crisis ... One final thing about Eisenhower ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
David Ignatius: Time to be like Ike
Indianapolis Star
10 Jan 2013
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It's telling that one of Chuck Hagel's favorite gifts to friends recently has been a biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero whose skepticism toward the military is a model for Hagel's own. Thinking about Eisenhower's presidency helps clarify the challenges and dilemmas of Barack Obama's second term ... More trench coats, less body armor, in other words ... Eisenhower made an open break with Israel in 1956 during the Suez crisis....(size: 4.6Kb)
Hal Lindsey wows 'Future Congress' event
WorldNetDaily
10 Jan 2013
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Long considered to be the “father” of the modern Bible prophecy movement, the Houston-born Harold “Hal” Lindsey, of course, wrote the 1970 blockbuster, “The Late, Great Planet Earth” – and 28 million copies later, it remains the seminal work on the subject. At the Future Congress event, held Jan ... “The topic that night was prophecy in light of the Suez Crisis. I took copious notes ... It was mutual. ....(size: 5.3Kb)
We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim
PR Newswire
10 Jan 2013
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&nbsp; Google. NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --. Also on view from January 18 through May 5, 2013.  .  . We Went Back ... This retrospective exhibition follows the development of Chim's career as an intellectually engaged photojournalist, placing his life and work in the broader context of 1930s–50s photography and European politics ... He was killed while photographing the Suez Crisis in November 1956 ... About ICP  ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)
Historic Castro photographer dies
News24
07 Jan 2013
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In his seven-decade career, Meneses covered conflicts such as the Suez crisis and the Bosnian war as well as founding and editing magazines and broadcasts. "He was an extraordinary photojournalist but he was not just a photojournalist ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
A Point of View: The British and their bizarre view of Americans
BBC News
04 Jan 2013
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We lap up their culture, adopt their economics and are obsessed with the "special relationship" ... But in fact the British conception of America remains hopelessly confused ... Since the Suez Crisis of 1956 when the British government was told by President Eisenhower in no uncertain terms that for them the imperial project was over, our national self-worth has been predicated, in a large part, on a rearguard action to save face ... ....(size: 11.4Kb)