A Gift of Peace
James Bindenagel, Foreign Service Journal
The popular quest for freedom and self-determination brought down the Berlin Wall, ending an era.
James Bindenagel, Foreign Service Journal
The popular quest for freedom and self-determination brought down the Berlin Wall, ending an era.
M. Peckel, Worldcrunch
Protesters in Lebanon and Iraq have been venting their fury at Iran, which is accused of practically running their countries. Tehran is not afraid to come down hard on its domestic opponents.
Victor Gilinsky & Henry Sokolski, Bulletin
A UN speech Turkish President Recep Erdogan delivered in September deserves much more attention than it got because it reflects a continued loss of respect, on the part of key Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty members, for the treaty's no-nuclear-weapons pledge.
Michael Klare, TomDispatch
The Situation Room, October 2039: the president and vice president, senior generals and admirals, key cabinet members, and other top national security officers huddle around computer screens as aides speak to key officials across the country. Some screens are focused on Hurricane Monica, continuing its catastrophic path through the Carolinas and Virginia; others are following Hurricane Nicholas, now pummeling Florida and Georgia, while Hurricane Ophelia lurks behind it in the eastern Caribbean.
Daniel Oliver, American Spectator
This just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, according to people who spoke to us on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment. (Franco, for those who don't study history because they think it's sexist, was...
Rosa Prince, Politico EU
UK election will be decided by the millions of voters left by the wayside as parties abandon the center.
Simon Garnett with Papp and Garnett, Vox Europ
In this interview with Eurozine, political scientist Ivan Krastev elaborates on the thesis that illiberalism in central eastern Europe today is part of a global contestation of western liberal hegemony, discussing what happened to the hopes of 1989.
Nicolaus Mills, Dissent
The pragmatic engagement that Marshall believed in required the United States to know its limits but also to honor its values whenever possible.
Aaron David Miller, Carnegie
As the Arab Spring version 2.0 sweeps Lebanon and Iraq, an intriguing question looms: Why has there been no Arab Spring in Palestine?
William Pesek, Nikkei
Protests have grown more violent and are now affecting daily business
Alan Taylor, The Atlantic
A record-setting "acqua alta" has left much of Venice submerged, following stormy conditions blowing in from the Adriatic Sea.
M. D'Ancona, Eve. St.
Is this a Brexit election? Well, yes and no. Escape the echo chambers of what Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's chief adviser, calls SW1 and you discover that the electorate is fretting about much more than the UK's departure from the European Union. This is not a single-issue contest, and it would be bizarre if it were so. At the same time, what we confront on December 12 is inescapably the defining electoral moment in the long and inglorious saga of political turmoil that was launched by the referendum of 2016.
Stephen Glover, Daily Mail
Many observers see a proud man who refuses to climb down, especially only days after agreeing not to fight the 317 seats the Tories won in the 2017 General Election.
Ian Birrell, Times of London
Frank Dobson was one of the first members of parliament I got to know. He was among the local MPs on my patch in north London in the days when a local paper reporter had time to develop contacts...
Daniel Hannan, Conservative Home
I spent my earliest years under a Corbynista dictatorship. Peru in the early 1970s was run by a Leftist general called Juan Velasco who, claiming to speak for The Many Not The Few, nationalised industries, seized private property, blocked imports and, in an early example of deranged identity politics, sought to impose the indigenous language, Quechua, even in schools where none of the children spoke it. It was Velasco who inspired Hugo Chvez: the young Venezuelan... Читать дальше...
David Ignatius, Wash. Post
Sadly, the president??s fecklessness in the proxy war with Russia is emblematic of his larger foreign policy.
Adam Triggs, East Asia Forum
Having been labelled dumb', getting dumber' and too dependent on China', it's been a rough few weeks for Australia's exports. Luckily, these criticisms are largely misguided.
Leonid Bershidsky, Moscow Times
Opinion An authoritarian leader's rule ended when citizens tired of him and the military refused to intervene. Could the same thing happen in Moscow?
Agon Maliqi, Sbunker
Ever since Vetvendosje came out first in Kosovo's elections a month ago, everyone interested in the Balkans has been somewhat puzzled: what does Albin Kurti's win mean for Kosovo and the region?The answer remains unclear, and...