Israel-Gaza war analysis

October 28, 2023 by

Marvin Kalb, former CBS and NBC correspondent, now a non-resident senior fellow in the foreign policy program at The Brookings Institution, analyzes the spiralling Israel-Gaza crisis.

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These days, in terms of resources, New England is poorly positioned to make electricity. As Gregg Cornett, president of Rhode Island Energy, told me in an interview, it doesn’t sit on abundant coal reserves and natural gas — the critical fuel in today’s electricity generating mix — or hide beneath the surface, waiting for the […]

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Llewellyn King

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