by Eric Harris Bernstein | Aug 2, 2013 | Monitor
State Department Issues Worldwide Travel Alert Eyder Peralta / NPR The U.S. State Department has issued a worldwide travel alert because of an al-Qaida threat that is particularly significant in the Middle East and North Africa. A Republican Case for Climate Action...
by Eric Harris Bernstein | Jul 26, 2013 | Monitor
The Catch-22 of “Low” Oil Prices John Vidal / The Guardian In short—increasing supply (domestic or otherwise) will do little to drive down prices, because numerous forms of unconventional production simply become uneconomical once oil prices drop below a...
by Eric Harris Bernstein | Jul 19, 2013 | Monitor
NYC and DC Face Power Outages, Water Shortages in Soaring Heat Jillian MacMath / Accuweather “Energy usage could approach all-time records,” New York’s largest energy provider Con Edison warned on their website this week, urging customers to make...
by Eric Harris Bernstein | Jun 21, 2013 | Monitor
Iran Elects Moderate Cleric Hasan Rouhani President NPR Moderate cleric Hasan Rouhani replaces Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been in power since 2005. David Greene talks to Thomas Erdbrink, a reporter for The New York Times in Tehran, about Iran’s newly elected...
by Eric Harris Bernstein | Jun 14, 2013 | Monitor
In a statement by Deputy National Security Adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes on Thursday, June 13th, the Obama administration announced that it is now certain that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including Sarin, “on a small scale against the opposition...
