Drinking Beer Is Saving Lives in Russia
Anne Ford, Quartz
Every fifth death among Russian men is due to alcohol abuse, but some men are escaping this fate by shifting from vodka -- Russia's traditional drink of choice -- to beer.
Anne Ford, Quartz
Every fifth death among Russian men is due to alcohol abuse, but some men are escaping this fate by shifting from vodka -- Russia's traditional drink of choice -- to beer.
Ishmael Daro, BuzzFeed
In The Now promises "news served hot with a side of smile." It also comes with a dollop of propaganda via its owner, Russia's government-funded RT.
Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald
President Vladimir Putin may have just achieved a version of 'regime change' in the United States, but his work is not yet done.
Emran Feroz, The Atlantic
What will the president-elect do with Afghanistan?
Bob Savic, The Diplomat
In Southeast and Northeast Asia, old partners are drifting away from the U.S. and toward China.
Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drags his feet in ensuring that all Jews can worship at the Western Wall in the way they wish, some members of his party have proposed a law that would imprison women for doing just that.
Aaron Miller, WSJ
There's no compelling reason to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem now -- a "very big priority" for Donald Trump -- and many compelling reasons not to.
Mary Dejevsky, Independent
Very soon after Donald Trump was elected, a consensus formed about likely winners and losers abroad. According to this, the big winner would be Russia,Ã given that one of Trump's few consistencies through the campaign was his desire to mend fences with Vladimir Putin. And the biggest loser, it was thought -- for similar reasons -- would be Ukraine.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Assad's foes hope the Kremlin will warm to the U.S. and ease off in the Middle East.
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Pax Americana is over. It had a good run. A Putin-Trump alliance at the service of the butcher Assad â combined with the undoing of the military alliances, trade pacts, political integration and legal framework of the postwar order â constitutes its death knell.
Abdul Jabbar al Aqidi, CNN
In the summer of 2012, with fewer than 500 fighters and in under a week, the Free Syrian Army took control of 70 neighbourhoods of the city of Aleppo. It happened during the month of Ramadan -- the residents of the city gave us food and drink to break our fast.
Ed West, The Spectator
If Putin is nefariously getting involved in western politics, why do the pro-Putin candidates always seem to win? Open hostility to Russia seems to be politically damaging right now, and this despite the Putin regime conducting a war in a European country, not to mention various human rights abuses at home.
Neil Macdonald, CBC News
Guilt is fashionable in our pampered society, particularly at this indulgent time of the year. At the moment, the most powerful guilt-inducer is Syria. And while the deep sorrow we're feeling for those in Aleppo is poignant, realistically, there's little the West could have done.
Gidon Ben-Zvi, Hayom
The failure to address this festering wound is the result of the Palestinian leadership's chronic lack of interest in compromising with the Israeli government, whether that government is right- or left-leaning.
Frances Martel, Breitbart
Trudeau told the House of Commons he has attended fundraisers for his family's foundation to "create economic growth for the middle class."
Michael Barone, Creators
What is President-elect Donald Trump up to on foreign policy? It's a question with no clear answer. Some will dismiss his appointments and tweets as expressing no more than the impulses of an ignorant and undisciplined temperament -- no more premeditated than the lunges of a rattlesnake.
William Arkin et al., NBC
The Obama administration didn't respond more forcefully to Russian hacking before Election Day because they didn't want to appear to be interfering in the election and didn't think it was worth a potential cyber war with Russia, multiple high-level intelligence sources told NBC News.'They thought she was going to win, so they were willing to kick the can down the road,' said one U.S official familiar with the level of Russian hacking.
E. Schwartzel, WSJ
As the movie begins its global rollout with a debut in China on Friday, the biggest hurdle awaits: Getting audiences to show up. The picture stars Matt Damon as a European mercenary detained at the wall who joins forces with Chinese soldiers to repel an army of monsters.
Shmuel Rosner, New York Times
In today's political conversation both inside Israel and outside, it's now a cliché that the settler movement has an undue influence over the Israeli government. But the Amona evacuation is evidence, once again, that this common knowledge is wrong.
Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail
The former prime minister may ingratiate himself, but he definitely has a knack for getting presidents to know Canadian files.
James Kirchick, WS
According to this chorus, which stretches from the White House to sympathetic journalists and policy analysts, an overextended America has long been hamstrung by its obsession with so-called credibility. From Vietnam to Iraq to Crimea and Syria, denizens of the Washington "Blob," to use deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes's derisive phrase for the capital's bipartisan foreign policy elite, have exaggerated threats to our security and promiscuously asserted an American... Читать дальше...