Новости за 02.10.2016

James Van de Velde, TNI
Nonproliferation zealots are making sure nuclear weapons now proliferate only to totalitarian states.

Peter Hartcher, Sydney MH
After buying America's AMC cinema chain for $US2.6 billion ($3.4 billion), Wang Jianlin is the world's biggest cinema operator. But he's still only getting started.

Jason Pack, Al-Monitor
Hifter's ambitions reach far beyond gaining access to specific amounts of Central Bank of Libya funding. He appears to be playing the long game; progressively building up legitimacy, leverage and influence. Since the start of the uprisings against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Hifter has tried via various tactics and ruses to become Libya's strongman. It is in this light that we must interpret his current military maneuver in the oil crescent and generosity toward the GNA. Читать дальше...

Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
There are problems in the resettlement process for the newcomers, from getting language training to finding work.

Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal
As Europe's troubles deepen and pose more of a threat to the vital interests of the U.S., Americans are recycling their tried and tested critiques of the European Union: It is too statist and bureaucratic. Its instincts are too protectionist. Its decision-making bodies are too slow and secretive. EU foreign policy is too naive, too feckless about defense and security. The problem with Europe, in a word, is that it is too European.

Jennifer Percy, Atlas Obscura
Against all odds, Iraq's religious tourism infrastructure has endured.

Alireza Nader, Fox News
The next U.S. president is likely to be met with multiple international crises after assuming office, and Iran may be one of the most challenging of them.

Meridith Kohut & Nicholas Casey, NYT

The state-run psychiatric hospital here in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, has long been a forgotten place, filled with forgotten people.But with Venezuela suffering from a severe economic crisis, this mental institution has almost no drugs to control the afflictions tormenting its patients.

Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate
Despite their unequivocal Europeanism, the Irish have been serially mistreated by the EU, most recently in 2009, when German banks were allowed to free ride on the country's unsuspecting taxpayers. But in maintaining a sweetheart tax deal with Apple, it is the Irish government that has been abusing the European commons.

Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard
The French right is discovering that there are more and more things you can't say.

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Several Latin American presidents would prefer Hillary Clinton to win the U.S. elections, which raises the possibility that a Trump victory would chill U.S.-Latin American ties, moving even the most pro-American leaders in the region to distance themselves from the United States. The big winners if Trump prevails would be Cuba and Venezuela.

Eszter Zalan, Foreign Policy
He's outmaneuvered all of his political rivals at home. Now the populist prime minister is setting out to put his stamp on the EU.

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
With the death of Shimon Peres, Israel has lost its chief optimist. And the prime minister remains paralyzed by pessimism.

Harman & Person, Washington Post
America has leverage and should use it to seek a freeze of all of Pyongyang's nuclear and long-range missile tests.

Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
Expected to commence in the coming weeks, the battle for the city of 1.2 million people, Iraq's second-largest, is expected to send up to 1 million people fleeing for safety and help determine the future of America's bid to contain the spread of violent Muslim extremism in the Middle East.

Owen Matthews, The Spectator
The influence of the Russian Orthodox church on public life is growing fast, thanks to Kremlin patronage. The church's preferred instrument of control is a draconian law criminalising ‘offending the feeling of religious believers' that was passed in the wake of a protest by the feminist punk group Pussy Riot in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in 2012. Prosecutions under the law have kicked into high gear this year. In March in Stavropol, south Russia, criminal... Читать дальше...