Good Evening,
It's Wednesday, September 22nd. |
Biden Calls on Global Partners to Shore Up Global Response
President Biden declared “we need to go big” as he cited two challenges at the opening of a virtual Covid summit: vaccinating the world and solving a global oxygen crisis, as the NYT reports. |
FBI director says Afghanistan withdrawal raises concern of terror groups rebuilding
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said Wednesday that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan raises concerns that the country will become a magnet for terrorism groups to plot and direct attacks, as The Washington Post reports. |
Fed Signals Rate Rises Possible Next Year
The Federal Reserve signaled it could start reversing its pandemic stimulus programs in November and could raise interest rates next year, as the WSJ reports. |
Executive Education
Register now for CSIS's online course, Evolving Technologies: Innovation, Competition, and Change, to learn about the critical issues leaders must grasp as we move into a global environment increasingly reshaped by automation, connectivity, ubiquitous knowledge, and technological competition. |
Video Shorts
Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel! |
In That Number
500
President Biden pledged 500 million more Pfizer vaccine donations for developing nations at the U.N. Covid-19 Summit.
Source: WSJ. |
Critical Quote
“We need to do better, and we will.”
— Jerome H. Powell, Federal Reserve Chairman |
iDeas Lab
Todd Harrison, director of the Aerospace Security Project, director of Defense Budget Analysis, and senior fellow with the International Security Program, discussed his testimony before the House Science, Space, and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee discussing "NASA’s Future In Low Earth Orbit: Considerations for International Space Station Extension and Transition.”
The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.![]() ![]() ![]() |
Optics
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) U.S. President Joe Biden (2nd L) speaks as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield (L) listens during a virtual Covid Summit of the United Nations General Assembly at the South Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Office Building September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden convened the virtual conference on the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic at the 76th United Nations General Assembly. |
Recommended Reading
"The Last Chance to Stop North Korea?" by CSIS's Victor Cha. |
This Town Tomorrow
Tomorrow, at 9:00 a.m., join CSIS for a virtual public event to discuss the future of work in the Mekong Subregion—Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Later, at 2:30 p.m., CSIS hosts a live event on how to best align the U.S. innovation ecosystem to national security, focusing on key areas for investment and reforming Department of Defense procedures to support innovation.
Also, at 9:30 a.m., USAID hosts a roundtable on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to elevate the work and perspectives of anti-corruption change makers from around the world. |
Video
The CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program today hosted a discussion on Russia's strategic and military role in Afghanistan and Central Asia post-U.S. and NATO withdrawal. Watch the video here. |
Podcasts
The seventh episode of Tech Unmanned, released yesterday, explores the state of hypersonic technology and how the United States and its competitors are looking to leverage hypersonic weapons and defenses in the battlefield.
Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Smiles
“Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, ‘This land is condemned’
All the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem.”
“Blind Willie McTell” is another track that didn’t make the final cut for Dylan’s 1983 album “Infidels.” This may be the most shocking omission because as Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin said, the song is “Dylan’s one indisputable masterpiece of the early eighties.”
The version offered on the new “Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vo.16, 1980-1985,” featuring Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor playing slide has been hailed by eminent critic Greil Marcus as “one of Dylan’s greatest songs — or even, perhaps, in the right mood, his greatest recording.” From the first lines of the song, I couldn’t agree more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=llFXxE0I3aM
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