September 17, 2011: Weekend
By The Morning News
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- Fearing political collapse, U.S. increases drone strikes on al Qaeda targets in Yemen.
- Forced to fend for themselves for generations, Yemenis created own social order.
- Amid all our disasters, why are the only revolutionaries on the right?
- Eager to avoid tainted food, China's rich and elite get their organics from suppliers off-limits to public.
- Exhibitors ejected from a London arms fair for advertising illegal cluster bombs, torture equipment.
- Libya's new government seeks to dampen high expectations, asks for patience to build government.
- Rebel deaths in Libyan conflicts run to hundreds, not thousands—a politically sensitive issue.
- Latvia's snap election likely to see pro-Russia party win for the first time since independence was restored 20 years ago.
- Britain's banking reforms will withdraw bailout guarantees, ring fence savings—and are worth replicating elsewhere.
- Jihadists, Nazis avoid slang—it's an antagonism to an established order they fight for.
- Queue, attend Marina Abramović’s “The Artist Is Present”—the 8-bit videogame version.
