What deserves to be put in the dock is a foreign policy that on the one hand fuels and courts extremism and extremists, while on the other wages war on…
Persuading those who are ideologically drunk and politically myopic is often a hopeless undertaking.…
Burma may be heading toward an illiberal or a defective democracy with the survival of certain inherent authoritarian elements in a widely perceived democratic institutional arrangement.…
If we are to stop this madness, we must fight and not just for our own sake, but for the sake of those who have yet to be born.…
How does the human race measure up to this wise saying when it comes to one of the essentials of life, food? Not well, it seems.…
Though Stalin has long since passed, Georgia is still in his grip in the 21st century.…
The use of sanctions to prevent foreign media from saying things that Washington has decided should not be said is actually a marked improvement over previous American methods. …
The Argentine example is an awful warning of what may happen should Nicosia and the EU fail to revive the Cypriot banking system.…
Western powers, led by the United States, have brought little pressure to bear on Israel to cease its illegal activities.…
By the time the British prime minister met his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in Delhi, the deal to sell AgustaWestland helicopters to India seemed to have been scuppered.…
Will sophisticated diplomacy and shrewd lobbying make the EU sign an Association Agreement, with Kyiv?…
What ifs are provocative, and that is what makes them fun. Thinking is America’s national disability. I’m all for anything that provokes Americans to think.…
Germany’s Eastern policies have to adapt to the novel political challenges in the post-Soviet space…
From Libya to Mali a typical story is forming, coupled with lucrative contracts and massive opportunities of all sorts.…
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is framework that allows EU citizens to call on the European Commission to propose legislation regarding a particular issue, following the gathering of at least…
Why the people in Mali and Algeria and the truth about Western engagement there are casualties of the latest developments…
Western powers are engaged in yet another military intervention, this time in Mali, a country whose troubles are in no small part a consequence of the U.S./NATO war on Libya…
I’ve conducted an interview with Prof. Stille and talked to him about journalism, Italian politics, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and freedom of press.…
All that counts is Washington’s will as the pursuit of hegemony moves Washington closer to becoming a world dictator. …
Russia clearly sees the necessity of growing its economy by attracting capital and deepening integration with the West but at the same time is constantly at pains to preserve sovereignty…
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