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What We Are Reading

Key Reads   Tropical Cyclone Dumping Year’s Worth of Rain on War-Torn Yemen in One Day Jethro Mullen / CNN Ravaged by months of war, Yemen has now been battered by the first tropical storm on record to make landfall in the impoverished Arab country.   Turkey...

What We Are Reading

Canada Foils ‘Al-Qaeda Linked’ Terror Attack on Train BBC News Two foreign men living in Canada have been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a passenger train with support from al-Qaeda elements in Iran. Terror Takes a Front Seat Glenn Thrush and Jennifer...

What We Are Reading

  Yemen president offers conditional dialogue with al Qaeda Andrew Hammond/Reuters Yemen’s president offered dialogue to Islamist militants including al Qaeda on Wednesday, but said they must agree first to put down weapons and reject support from abroad....

Long-term National Energy Policy Still Needed

Wind turbine factory in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Photo credit: DOE Former CIA Director John Deutch published an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on August 14, offering his thoughts on the shale gas revolution. Here on ASP’s Flashpoint blog, we’ve been...