Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage with some categories for helpful reading…

Global Economy

• Cyprus and EU avert financial catastrophe but EU looks like “gang that can’t shoot straight”
• Krugman recommends Cyprus exit from the Euro

Energy and the Environment

• Wildlife returns to Guyana
• CFR hosts joint event with Conservation International on the mainstreaming of environmental security
• Trevor Houser flags EIA report on U.S. energy consumption
• John Romankiewicz questions whether shale gas is actually changing the country’s energy trajectory all that much

Africa

• Central African Republic experiences a coup (only #19 on Jay Ulfelder’s list of places most likely to have a coup)
• China is not the largest Asian investor in Africa
• Roy Robins questions why South Africa is included in the BRICS

U.S. Foreign Policy

• President Obama gives terrific speech in Jerusalem challenging Israel and Palestine to have some vision
• Micah Zenko tweet dismisses as “Obama Doctrine: Inspirational speech sprinkled with hard-truths in lieu of actual policy changes. Repeat as needed”
• Steve Walt dumps on Obama for seemingly being a constructivist)
• Provocative graphic on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan
• New reports question Esquire account of Bin Laden’s death; what does that mean for our “historical documents” like Zero Dark Thirty?
• Charles Kenny lambastes U.S. foreign assistance for being entirely too self-serving
• Peggy Noonan writes something smart about how Iraq destroyed the GOP brand on national security

Sundry

• U.S. men win epic World Cup qualifier in the snow in Denver and then heroically draw Mexico 0-0 in Estadio Azteca where the hosts had a record of 68-1-6
• Remarkable debut from new Irish band Little Green Cars