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Putin in Tehran
Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today hosted Russian president Vladimir Putin in Tehran for talks focused on Syria. Khamenei told Putin that US policies in the Middle East were a threat to both of their nations, as Reuters reports [ http://reut.rs/1NM4Kit ] .

Dive Deeper: This week French president Francois Hollande visits Moscow and Washington in search of commitments for a \u201clarge and unique coalition\u201d to defeat ISIS, as CSIS\u2019s Simon de Galbert writes [ http://on.wsj.com/1NM4Qqe ] for the Wall Street Journal .

Preventing Another Ebola Crisis
In recent months, numerous groups of health experts have gathered to debate how to prevent another crisis like the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, as the New York Times \u2019 Sheri Fink reports [ http://nyti.ms/1NM4YWW ] .

Dive Deeper: CSIS\u2019s Steve Morrison contributed \u201cAfter the Ebola Catastrophe\u201d [ http://bit.ly/1NM56pr ] to CSIS\u2019s 2016 Global Forecast .

And, on December 2, CSIS will host the US rollout of the [ http://bit.ly/1NM5bte ] final report [ http://bit.ly/1NM5bte ] of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Independent Panel to analyze the major weaknesses in the global health system exposed by the Ebola outbreak.

North Korea's Cyber Ops
Cybersecurity is in the news daily. Today, Government Computer News\u2019 John Bradley had an interesting piece [ http://bit.ly/1P4bFJL ] on \u201c5 ways the U.S. government can get security right.\u201d

Dive Deeper: Today, CSIS\u2019s Victor Cha and James Andrew Lewis published the \u201cExecutive Summary\u201d [ http://bit.ly/1P4bXQZ ] of a new report that is unique in the study of cyber security: North Korea's Cyber Operations: Strategy and Responses .

In that Number
$270 billion
The damage in Syria from the conflict totals an estimated $270 billion.
Source: Washin [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2015/11/13/kobane/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202 ] gton Post [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2015/11/13/kobane/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202 ] .

Critical Quote
\u201cWashington needs to understand that it will not stay immune to catastrophic consequences of Syria\u2019s war.\u201d
\u2014Simond de Galbert, visiting fellow with the CSIS Europe Program.
Source: Wall Street Journal [ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/11/23/the-stakes-for-france-as-hollande-rallies-allies-against-islamic-state ] .

One to Watch


Alberto Riva (@Albertoriva [ https://twitter.com/Albertoriva ] ) is the managing editor of VICE News. Alberto previously served as senior world news editor at International Business Times and as a journalist at Il Sole 24 Ore , Italy\u2019s largest business newspaper . As Vice continues to reinvent the world news landscape, Alberto is one to watch. ( Photo Credit: LinkedIn.)

Optics
Quartz has these photos [ http://qz.com/556494/photos-brussels-is-on-lockdown-amid-a-serious-and-imminent-terrorist-threat ] of an empty Brussels on lockdown this weekend, after the city became the center of the investigation into the terror attacks in Paris.

Highly Recommended
Robert Kagan\u2019s Saturday essay for the Wall Street Journal , \u201cThe Crisis of World Order.\u201d [ http://on.wsj.com/1NM4dgp ] (Thanks to my dad for pointing me to this one.)

CSIS on Demand
Earlier this year, CSIS hosted Graeme Wood, author of \u201cWhat ISIS Really Wants [ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980 ] ,\u201d for an illuminating discussion on the Islamic State\u2019s ideology, its strategy, and its goals. Catch the discussion here [ http://csis.org/event/tnt-roundtable-what-isis-really-wants ] .

Sounds
How can intelligence agencies track ISIS as its threat spreads from Syria and Iraq? Find out on this week\u2019s CSIS Podcast [ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-csis-podcast/id214886950?mt=2 ] .

I Like It Like That
Eye-catching things in CSIS's orbit

The Wall Street Journal today published (and will all week) a multimedia series [ http://bit.ly/1NM45O8 ] on demography that will look at how we will work, age, and live.

Smiles
The Doobie Brothers are one of my all-time favorite bands. They just make me smile. They\u2019ve got it all. Even a guitarist named \u201cSkunk\u201d (Skunk Baxter). The group has spanned the decades with hits, selling over 40 million records and still performing.

But I think they were never better than with their 1974 masterpiece \u201cBlack Water.\u201d

Written by Patrick Simmons about his first visit to New Orleans, the song spoke to me long before I ever even thought about attending Tulane University.

Bouncing along in the back of my mom\u2019s station-wagon on the way to swim practice (wood paneling and all) with \u201cBlack Water\u201d grooving on the radio was as good as it got. As long as I live I will never forget the song\u2019s most brilliant verse:

\u201cWell if it rains, I don't care/Don't make no difference to me/Just take that street car that's goin' Uptown.\u201d

Not too many lyrics in music make me smile more than that verse (not to mention the hundreds of times I have actually taken that street car that\u2019s goin\u2019 Uptown all the way to Tulane and beyond where the Mississippi River bends.)

Here\u2019s my favorite performance of \u201cBlack Water.\u201d [ http://bit.ly/1P47OfO ] Check out Skunk on pedal steel guitar\u2014he looks like one of the Muppets. \u201cRoll black water, keep on rollin\u2019/Mississippi moon won\u2019t you keep on shinin\u2019 on me.\u201d

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