Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading

15 November Event Invites Whitman: American Competitiveness and National Security A Conversation with James Kitfield: National Security in an Era of Global Upheaval Meeting of the Financial Intelligence and Information Sharing (FIIS) Working Group What We Are Reading...

What We Are Reading

November 13 Making an Energy Boom Work for the U.S. David L. Goldwyn/New York Times The rapid rise in output of natural gas and, more recently, oil in the United States is transforming the country’s energy and economic landscape. These production booms are...

Political Pressure and the Renewable Fuel Standard

This month, the EPA will consider a petition to grant a “waiver” on America’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS, established as a part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, requires minimum volume of biofuels to be blended into the national transportation fuel...

What We Are Reading

8 November 2012 Red Cross says it ‘can’t cope’ with with Syria emergency BBC News/ Middle East The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) — the only international aid agency able to operate within Syria — has said it cannot keep...

What We Are Reading

6 November 2012 Nuclear fusion, JET and ITER: Your questions answered The Engineer Two European projects are hoping to pave the way for commercially viable power generation using nuclear fusion – a breakthrough that could make a massive contribution to our energy and...