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HACKING/SECURITY – Google Docs bug could have allowed hackers to hijack screenshots (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112785/hacking/google-docs-bug.html

IRAQ’S KURDISH REGION – It is time for a system overhaul in Iraq’s Kurdish region (Dara Salam, Al Jazeera)

On December 2, teachers and public employees peacefully demonstrated in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), demanding their...

ISRAEL/PALESTINE – The two-state solution: The opium of the Palestinian people (Haidar Eid, Al Jazeera)

Last month, Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator and secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, passed away at the age of...

UK – No future: the English Left in retrospect (Richard Seymour, Al Jazeera)

What do you do with a defeat that is so crushing that there is no arguing with it? The electoral mauling of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party,...

INDIA/BIOLOGICAL RISKS – Biological Risks in India: Perspectives and Analysis (Shruti Sharma, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

India faces a host of biological risk factors. Drawing lessons from the coronavirus pandemic and prior biological disasters, India’s government should pursue new safety...

ARMS CONTROL – Revamping Nuclear Arms Control: Five Near-Term Proposals (James M. Acton, Thomas MacDonald, Pranay Vaddi, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

To quickly lower the risk of nuclear escalation, manage arms racing, and avoid a breakdown in future treaty negotiations, the United States, Russia, and...

PANDEMIC/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA – Infographic: COVID-19 fatality in the Middle East and North Africa (Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/infographic-covid-19-fatality-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/

USA/INTELLIGENCE – An Intelligence Agenda for a New Administration (Belfer Center)

America’s Intelligence Community (IC) faces a daunting array of traditional national security challenges. Terrorism remains a persistent global problem in form of Islamic extremism...

USA – First 100 Days: Mapping Policy Priorities for the Biden Administration (Belfer Center)

As a new presidential administration prepares to take office, we asked Belfer Center experts: In your issue area, what one policy step would you advise the...

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