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Facts, and Opinions, this week

“The Paris Agreement is adopted,” said French foreign minister Laurent Fabius late Saturday at the Paris climate summit. Weary delegates cheered and applauded the global agreement on tackling climate change, reached by 195 countries after years of preparation and two weeks of grinding negotiations. “The most difficult part is over,” said Fabius, banging a green gavel to signal the deal. The negotiations are done, the deal is made. And  now the hard work begins. F&O will provide context and commentary in the coming week. The massive agreement on climate change measures includes financial pledges to help developing nations; hold the temperature increase to “well below 2

Matters of Facts, and Opinions: guns, climate and a ferry tale

Far more people die horribly in the world’s benighted places than die by guns in the United States, and yet American gun violence hogs global attention. The reason is simple: the American dream was once the world’s dream of a good life. That’s at least the PR spin: America the great, a beacon of justice and ‘freedom,’ the City on the Hill, self-styled leader of the free world. Superpower America affects everyone and everything, psychologically and physically. And when the American dream turns to a nightmare, everybody awakes in a cold sweat. This month Syria suffers, India and England flood, and the world’s fate may hang on a climate summit in terrorized Paris. But

Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week

What deserves attention, in this crazy and constant flood of distractions? That, always, is F&O’s  top question. Our aim to offer a journalism boutique of the best, most interesting, stories –to earn a regular spot in your travels through the web. Here are our new reads for the weekend; on Monday, we’ll have a series for the climate summit in Paris. If you have comments or suggestions,  please drop me a line at djones AT factsandopinions.com. Thanks for your interest and support.   Paris, Pilots and our rhetoric around ISIS. By Sheldon Fernandez The day after the atrocities in Paris I found myself pacing in my Toronto apartment, a split consciousness, my Facebook feed saturated with conflicting responses to the carnage. U.S. Space mining law

Findings: the best of the web

You’ve read F&O’s latest work, I assume? (If not, may I respectfully remind you, here, of the essential stories on our Contents page?) Why ISIS is winning, with America’s help TOM REGAN: Summoning Orenda Column Soldiers patrol Brussels, raids lead to arrests GABRIELA BACZYNSKA & PHILIP BLENKINSOP  Report The View From Counterterror’s Front Lines  SEBASTIAN ROTELLA, ProPublica  Report Bibi Times: Netanyahu’s tangled relationship with media MAAYAN LUBELL  Report Bosnia divided two decades after peace deal DARIA SITO-SUCIC  Report Ron Hynes departs for Cryer’s Paradise GREG LOCKE  Arts Gate A-4 NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Essay Remembrance and Refugees  ROD MICKLEBURGH  Column Suicide Bombing: history’s least successful military tactic JONATHAN

Sunday reads on F&O

Ron Hynes: the man of 1000 songs departs for Cryer’s Paradise. By Greg Locke Newfoundland singer-songwriter and musical legend, Ron Hynes, died Nov. 19. He was 64. In an ironic coincidence there was a power failure in downtown St John’s around the same time. Across the bar I heard someone say, “I guess Ron turned the lights out when he left.” Hynes’ music and writing marks a generation that began with Newfoundland’s cultural renaissance. Bosnia divided two decades after peace deal. By Daria Sito-Sucic A metal capsule containing over 20,000 wishes for the future was stored away in a Sarajevo museum, to

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