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Kick Argentina Out of the G-20? Absurd - Jorge Heine, Toronto Star

Argentina's partial renationalization of its oil company, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF), has triggered a veritable frenzy of anti-Argentine sentiment. Ironically, this ...

Decision for Euro Members: Stay or Go? - Uri Dadush, The National Interest

Stay or leave? Should Greece persist with its extreme austerity plan, or should it abandon the euro? What about Portugal? Spain? In mainstream political discourse, posing the ques...

Argentina, Oil and Trouble - Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard

Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner cannot claim to be the only world leader to lash out against oil speculators this week. Last Tuesday President Obama used ...

The Rise of 'Resource Nationalism' - Hal Weitzman, Politico

Nationalizing the oil industry? Is this the 1960s - with a Latin American backwater grasping at fading socialist ideas to stay in power? This move is actually part of a larger tr...

Obama's Undiplomacy - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

The problem is not just that Obama has no knowledge of geography, but that he has none either about history or diplomacy....

Argentina's Oil Grab Is Justified - Will Hutton, The Observer

Suppose the British government knew that a key shareholder in Centrica, our last great British energy company and owner of British Gas, was to sell its stake to Gazprom, so making ...

Do Cry for Argentina - Robert Fulford, National Post

I’ve always wanted Sid to visit Argentina, just for comparison’s sake. In some ways it’s much like Canada, a huge one-time colony with a talented population and e...

Argentina's President Rejects Stepping into the Future - Washington Post

When Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was reelected president of Argentina last October, we posited that she had a choice to make between continuing to pursue the autocratic populi...

Argentina's Oil Raid Will End Badly - John Gapper, Financial Times

Sometimes the most obvious and tempting strategy is the stupidest. That applies to Argentina’s decision to seize a majority share in YPF, its biggest oil company, from Repsol, ...

Should Obama Be 'Neutral' over the Falkands? - Toby Harnden, Daily Mail

British troops fight and die alongside Americans, but Obama is 'neutral' over the sovereignty of the Falklands (or should that be 'Maldives'?...

Argentina's Not-So-Lost, But Awful Cause - David Warren, Ottawa Citizen

A nation that trashed itself, repeatedly, now dreams again of restoring pride, by finally conquering the "Malvinas" - and appropriating all their oil and gas....

Falklands Win Left Britain Addicted to War - Max Hastings, Daily Mail

A month after the Argentine surrender, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made a triumphal speech to a rally of the Tory faithful at Cheltenham, in which she proclaimed her belief...

Argentina Still Fighting a Losing Battle for Falklands - Washington Post

The Argentine cause, which has been drummed into schoolchildren for generations, is odd because Argentina has no modern connection or claim to the windswept islands other than r...

Falklands: the Significant 'Little War' - John O'Sullivan, National Review

It was this discrepancy between the small importance of the prize and the strenuous effort needed to win it that shaped the early American (and European) reactions to the Falklan...

Argentina, UK Ought to Have Been Allies - Daniel Hannan, Telegraph Blogs

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that there is oil wealth under the South Atlantic, and that Port Stanley becomes the next Kuwait City. Which country would stand to gain t...

UK Still Pays a Price for Falklands Victory - The Independent

Thirty years ago today General Leopoldo Galtieri's tottering, gold-braided regime started a military adventure in the South Atlantic, hoping a quick victory in Port Stanley would k...

Britain Can Still Work with Argentina - William Hague, Daily Telegraph

'We have apparently reliable evidence that an Argentine task force will gather off Cape Pembroke [East Falkland] early tomorrow morning, 2 April. You will wish to make your dispos...

Falklands Cast Long Shadow Over Britain - Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman

THE battle for the Falklands still casts a long shadow over political life in Britain, but it’s not great The 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands war is next week,...

Tensions High on Falklands Anniversary - Ben McPartland, France 24

Britain and Argentina commemorate the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War on Monday amid escalating tensions between the two countries. April 2 marks three decades...

How the U.S. Almost Betrayed Britain - John O'Sullivan, Wall St. Journal

Alexander Haig wanted Reagan to side with the Argentines over the Falklands, newly released papers show....

Argentina Hurts Itself in Falklands - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald

Instead of scaring off the islanders with constant threats, Argentina should try to seduce them. It should offer them free medical airlifts and first-class medical treatment in A...

Greece Could Learn from Argentina - Cesar Chelala, Japan Times

To understand Greece's recent travails and how the country got there, it is useful to quote what Mikis Theodorakis, the famous Greek songwriter and composer, wrote about it recent...

Argentina's Slow-Motion Disaster - Jaime Daremblum, PJ Media

Whenever Argentina starts rattling sabers over the British Falkland Islands, it’s a surefire sign that the South American country is experiencing some type of domestic turmoil....

Sean Penn: A Kissinger for Our Time - Alex Massie, Spectator Blog

Sean Penn is downright Kissingerian....

Britain Is Trying to Intimidate Argentina - Sean Penn, The Guardian

Sending Prince William to the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, sends a message of intimidation....

What Has Happened to Argentine Dignity? - Peter Martindale, Huff Post

What a shame it is that Argentina is making rather a fool of itself with its continuing threats against the Falkland Islands....

Could a New Oil Find Re-Ignite Falklands Flare Up? - John Daly, Huff Post

Will Britain and the U.S. be willing to alienate the entire Western Hemisphere south of the Rio Grande on behalf of roughly 3,000 sheep herders?...

Prepare for a Golden Age of Gas - Martin Wolf, Financial Times

The world is in the midst of a natural gas revolution. Even the sober International Energy Agency refers to a scenario it calls a 'golden age of gas'. If such optimism proves ri...

Save Us from Stars Who Think They're Statesmen - Chris Hart, Daily Mail

Another week and another vainglorious and ill-informed Hollywood actor wades into a serious political issue only to make a complete twit of himself....

Obama's Falklands Failure - Robert O'Brien, The Diplomat

America's failure to clearly back Britain in its current diplomatic row with Argentina over the Falkland Islands risks sending the wrong message to U.S. allies in Asia....

U.S. Should Stand With UK on Falklands Dispute - Heritage Foundation

In a blatant show of disdain for the Anglo–American Special Relationship, the Obama Administration has weighed in on the mounting tensions between Great Britain and Argentina...

Britain Ready to Humiliate Argentina's Bully - Nile Gardiner, Telegraph

You can spot a bully a mile away. Full of bluster and hot air, they deflate swiftly when confronted and met with force. This is precisely what happened in 1982 to Argentina’s m...

UK Must Hand the Falklands Back to Argentina - Peter Slowe, Politics.co.uk

Britain can cede sovereignty to Argentina while ensuring the local population still enjoys a British way of life....

Should Britain Be Worried About Argentina? - Walter Russell Mead, TAI

What's clear is that the economic issues, whether having to do with squid or with oil, can be negotiated, assuming a modicum of goodwill and rationality on both sides. There are ...

How to Solve Falklands Problem? Sell Them - Phil Hensher, Independent

I doubt we have much stomach for another war in the south Atlantic. And we need the money....

The New Falklands War - Jaime Daremblum, Weekly Standard Blog

In 1982, Argentina’s right wing military junta launched a sudden invasion of the Falkland Islands, the South Atlantic archipelago that has been a British possession since 1833....

Oil Opens Old Wounds in Falklands - Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun

The announcement that the commercial production of oil will soon start off the Falkland Islands has inflamed already volatile relations between London and Buenos Aires as the 30t...

Argentina Stakes Claim on Falklands - Philip Sherwell, Daily Telegraph

Despite Argentina now being a democracy rather than a junta, the question of who should own Las Malvinas, as the Argentines call them, remains an irresistible card for politi...

Complacency Over Falklands Could Cost Britain - Con Coughlin, Telegraph

The mandarins in Whitehall should take more seriously Argentina's renewed interest in the South Atlantic islands....

The Falklands and a Stand for Freedom - Daily Mail

To some, the crisis over the Falklands may sound like the plot of an Ealing comedy, with no place in the real world of the 21st century. How, they may wonder, could this barren out...

Is Latin America's Boom Over? - Tim Padgett, Global Spin

While Asian economies account for a third of the world's research-and-development expenditures today, Latin America accounts for about 3%....

Argentina's Lessons for Crisis-Ridden Europe - Jens Glusing, Der Spiegel

Ten years ago, Argentina's economy was in a shambles, the victim of vast sovereign debt, a peso that was pegged to the US dollar and rigid IMF austerity measures. A decade later,...

Argentina's Saber-Rattling in the South Atlantic - Daily Telegraph

In recent months, Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's president, has taken a steadily more belligerent stance over the issue of the Falkland Islands....

Falklands Blockade an Act of War on Britain - Nile Gardiner, The Compass

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Argentina Flirts With Iran as West Watches - Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

Argentina is quietly reaching out to Iran, worrying key Western powers and Israel as they try to tighten Tehran's international isolation over its nuclear program, U.N. diplomats t...

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