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RUSSIA – Russia Strives for an Oil and Gas Resurgence (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

(Source: Bloomberg) As the global economy—animated by the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines—hopes for the first signs of recovery, expectations also rise in Russia for...

USA – America Passed the Trump Stress Test (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

After four years of President Donald Trump's contempt for established political norms, it is tempting to say that American constitutional democracy has suffered long-term...

INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING – The Infrastructure Spending Challenge (Kenneth Rogoff, Project-Syndicate)

Macroeconomists broadly agree that productive infrastructure spending is welcome after a deep recession, especially when interest rates are at record lows. But in advanced...

USA – Jerrold Post: One of the CIA’s truly great innovators (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/07/jerrold-post-one-of-the-cias-truly-great-innovators/

ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFLICT/USA – Why the discourse about Palestinian payments to prisoners’ families is distorted and misleading (Shibley Telhami, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/07/why-the-discourse-about-palestinian-payments-to-prisoners-families-is-distorted-and-misleading/

USA – Happiness and aging in the US: Why it is different from other places and why it matters (David G. Blanchflower and Carol...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/07/happiness-and-aging-in-the-us-why-it-is-different-from-other-places-and-why-it-matters/

USA – More economic relief and stimulus: Why and how (William G. Gale and Grace Enda, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/more-economic-relief-and-stimulus-why-and-how/

RUSSIA/USA – Russia-linked hackers actively exploit CVE-2020-4006 VMware flaw, NSA warns (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112006/apt/cve-2020-4006-vmware-russian-hackers.html

AUSTRALIA/USA – US Cyber Command and Australian IWD to develop shared cyber training range (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111988/cyber-warfare-2/us-cyber-command-iwd-cyber-range.html

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