Новости за 02.09.2016

Michelle Hauser, National Post
Let's stop pretending showing off these cuddly creatures has anything to do with conservation.

Robert Fisk, The Independent
For burning Troy, read burning Aleppo. For the destruction of the ancient city of King Priam, think of the pulverisation of the Great Mosque and the soukhs of Syria's largest city, and the slaughter of its peoples. Fire and the sword, shell and the barrel bombs. The Trojans and the peoples of the Middle East today were and are fleeing for their lives. And so we come to the flip side of this tragedy. Not the history of the past, but the history of the future. In the age of the internet... Читать дальше...

Fred Fleitz, Fox News
Iranian leaders probably will view a Hillary Clinton presidency as a third Obama term and may move quickly to terminate the JCPOA and resume uranium enrichment at Fordow shortly after her inauguration.

Dan Larison, AmCon Mag

This is just the latest in a long string of false charges that should be dismissed as such.

Joshua Kurlantzick, Asia Unbound
Laos's economy, though one of the fastest growing in Asia, remains dominated by Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese companies; U.S. investors are minuscule players in the country right now, and that is unlikely to change any time soon. The United States government has boosted aid for programs designed to protect the environment of the Mekong River basin, improve nutrition in Laos, and address other environmental and health issues, but U.S. investors are less enthusiastic about Laos. Читать дальше...

Jacek Rostowski, Project Syndicate
A Donald Trump presidency would be a catastrophe for NATO and should serve as a wake-up call to the European Union regarding its own defense. Too many EU NATO members fall short of their defense-spending commitments, partly owing to German-imposed austerity and obsession with fiscal rectitude.

Nancy Youssef, The Daily Beast
There are only a few months left in the Obama presidency. Which means the pressure is on to score a major win against ISIS before he leaves the White House.

Elliott Abrams, National Review
One of the things that will certainly not happen soon is the conclusion of an Israeli–Palestinian peace agreement.

Roman Badaus & Will Baulch, Foreign Brief
Uzbekistan's long-time dictator has just died, what next?

Pierre Briancon, Politico EU
The decision adds to a list of transatlantic grievances.

Christopher Preble & William Ruger, War on the Rocks
A suicide bombing in Yemen kills scores of new military recruits. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has suffered a brain hemorrhage. Nuclear-armed North Korea tests ballistic missiles. Venezuela is in a political and economic death spiral. The civil war in Syria drags into its fifth year, and only seems to get worse. In each case, a worried world asks: “What is the United States going to do?”

Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Nl. Interest
A key international body is being swamped by rivalry.

Catherine Osborn, The Atlantic
As Dilma Rousseff leaves office, some working-class supporters held a boisterous wake for her legacy.

John Hudson, Foreign Policy
The pushback follows claims by a former U.N. weapons inspector that world powers allowed Tehran to evade restrictions on its nuclear program.

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
This past January, as the Iran nuclear deal was implemented, the Obama administration justified its eagerness to end sanctions by asserting that Tehran had scrupulously kept all its promises. But it turns out that the demands placed on Iran weren't as strict as we were led to believe.

Ioan Grillo, New York Times
Mexico City — Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, had already had a terrible summer. July was the most murderous month in Mexico since he took office in 2012. Second-quarter results showed negative economic growth for the first time in three years. A survey found his approval rating slipping to 23 percent. And a news report even alleged that he plagiarizednearly a third of his law degree thesis. How could he make it any worse? Only by inviting Donald J. Читать дальше...

Eva Hartog, Mos. Times
With little over two weeks left until Russia stages a parliamentary vote, ruling party United Russia is struggling to reverse a downward trend.

Halya Coynash, Kharkiv HPG
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Perm blogger Vladimir Luzgin for reposting a text which states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. The Supreme Court's ruling came on September 1, 2016, the 77th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland, 17 days before the anniversary of the Soviet invasion from the east.Â

David Ignatius, Washington Post
The U.S. national security adviser has walked the line between cooperation and challenge.

S. Pugsley & F. Wesslau, European Council on Foreign Relations
“What's a secure Russian border? One with Russian troops on both sides of it.” So goes the old Russian joke. But for at least three of the six states in Eastern Europe, this joke isn't very funny. Russia has carved out territory from Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, and maintains troops in these breakaway territories. Russia also exerts control over these territories by providing varying degrees of political, administrative... Читать дальше...

Alberto Nardelli, BuzzFeed
"We would like to incentivise well-educated, creative people not to come here to work in a pub," the country's deputy prime minister told BuzzFeed News during a visit to the UK.