Hungarian Democracy Is an Alternate Reality
Robert Austin, Globe and Mail
Sunday's referendum on refugees was manipulative and unfair.
Robert Austin, Globe and Mail
Sunday's referendum on refugees was manipulative and unfair.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast
In this war the world will not end, these volunteers continue the grim, grueling work of rescuing the wounded, and retrieving the dead from Aleppo's rubble.
Peter Geoghegan, Politico EU
The questions Brexit poses for Northern Ireland are not confined to the legal sphere: how will the circuitous 300-mile-plus boundary with the Irish Republic -- the U.K.'s only land border with the European Union -- be controlled once Britain leaves the EU? Will trade be affected? Could republicans opposed to the peace process set up an armed campaign?
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
The Conservative party faithful are cheering. But hard Brexit will hurt, and the prime minister could sink in the quicksands of EU negotiations.
Gabriel Said Reynolds, New York Daily News
Where ISIS departs from other strains of Islam is regarding what to do with Christians between now and doomsday.
Rajan Menon, Nat'l Interest
India and Pakistan shouldn't gamble with nuclear war.
Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Policy
The government's peace deal with the FARC rebel group just met a Brexit-style demise. Here's why it went off the rails.
Mustafa Akyol, New York Times
If the Dajjal is to blame for the Muslim world's bleak situation, then only divinely guided saviors can find a way out. This belief discourages pursuing the real solutions to the gap between the Islamic world and the West: science, economic development and liberal democracy.
C. Nicosia, Geo. Mon.
Do recent shifts in Turkey-US relations vindicate Samuel Huntington's controversial thesis of a clash of civilizations?
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Germans aren't great fans of bank rescues, but Deutsche occupies a unique place in the economy.
C. Nicosia, Geo. Mon.
Do recent shifts in Turkey-US relations vindicate Samuel Huntington's controversial thesis of a clash of civilizations?
David Marsh, MarketWatch
How did Deutsche Bank find itself in such trouble? David Marsh explains how Germany's premier bank fell from grace.
Vipin Narang, The Hindu
As the dust settles following the so-called September 29 âÂÂsurgical strikeâ which witnessed the publicly acknowledged employment of Indian special forces across the Line of Control (LoC) for the first time in over a decade, it is useful to take stock of the larger implications â what the operation does and does not mean for India's broader strategic dynamic with Pakistan.
Shehzad Ghias, Express Tribune
Too long have we danced to the beat of India on all our mehndis and dholkis.
Daniel Byman, Brookings Institution
Congress' override of President Obama's veto to allow Americans to sue Saudi Arabia for links to the 9/11 plot raises many questions. Saudi Arabia has made considerable progress on counterterrorism in the last 15 years, but still has a long way to go.
International Crisis Group
The rapid rise of alternative interpretations of Islam, often at odds with the state's concept of traditional identity, are being fueled in part by endemic corruption and perceptions of incompetency. The government must end economic marginalisation and improve inadequate institutions, or risk not just threats to internal security but also the resurfacing of ethnic tensions.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
The UK prime minister announces she will trigger an exit from the EU before getting any guarantees.Ã
Katie Hopkins, Daily Mail
Today I am proud of my country and the people who voted Leave. You made change happen. And suddenly even politicians are making sense.
Kate Lamb, Guardian
Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Shimon Peres, who died last week, as president worked relentlessly in order to engage Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and global high-tech companies in his Middle East Marshall Plan for turning the region into a peaceful technological powerhouse.