Week of March 4, 2013 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, March 4
How Obama Froze Out Hillary and Lost a War
Vali Nasr, Foreign Policy
China's Housing Bubble Is About to Burst
Gordon Chang, Forbes
The Globalization of Hazard
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
U.S. Policy on Syria Is Self-Defeating
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
John Brennan and the bin Laden Files
Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
In Italy, Politics Is Just Show Business
Barry Strauss, RealClearWorld
U.S. Won't Always Drone Alone
Paul Saunders, The National Interest
Europe Still Lacks Post-Cold War Strategy
Sergei Karaganov, Project Syn.
Ireland a Poster-Child of EU Cruelty
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
U.S. Aid to Palestinian Forces May Assist Hamas
David Bedein, Jlem Post
A Mine Massacre and the Fight for South Africa
Eve Fairbanks, TNR
A Roadmap for American Grand Strategy
William Martel, The Diplomat
Taiwan Challenges Its Neighbors
Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute
Brazil's News Outlets Take Aim at Dilma
Vincent Bevins, L.A. Times
How Democracy Kills in Indonesia & Pakistan
Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg
Tuesday, March 5
China to Boost Military Spending 10.7 Percent
William Wan, Wash Post
The Global Middle Class Is Destroying Democracy
Joshua Kurlantzick, FP
Euro Crisis Breeding Comics, Not Fascists
Gideon Rachman, FT
Europe's Unemployed a Force to Reckon With
George Friedman, Stratfor
The Global Scramble for Immigrants
Joseph Chamie, Yale Global
Bye Bye Cold War, Welcome to the Cool War
Toby Harnden, Sunday Times
Will U.S. Budget Cuts = Isolationism?
Bruce Stokes, Global Public Square
Come Home, America
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, New York Times
Saudi Arabia Is Luring American Talent
Susan Schmidt, National Interest
Could the Next Pope Be Asian?
Jonathan DeHart, The Diplomat
Europe's Most Catholic Country Seeks Modern Pope
Donald Snyder, NBC
British Hypocrites Scold Eastern Europe Once Again
Matt Day, Scotsman
Russia Energy Monopoly Topples Bulgarian Govt
Ognyan Minchev, GMF
On Keystone Pipeline, Consider Canada
Norquist & Gleason, Reuters
Why Are Brits Obsessed with Queen's Bowels?
Agnes Poirier, Guardian
Wednesday, March 6
Chavez Empowered the Poor and Gutted Venezuela
Moises Naim, BBW
Hugo Chavez Failed Venezuela
James Robbins, USA Today
Chavez Kept His Promise to the People
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Guardian
Chavez's Legacy: Curse of Oil Dependency
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Now the Taliban Wants Peace?
Ron Moreau & Sami Yousafzai, Daily Beast
Europe's Misdirected Anger over Executive Pay
Clive Crook, Bloomberg
Ahmadinejad Is Not Going Quietly
Mohammad Ali Shabani, Al Monitor
China's Communists Find Marxism
Charles Burton, Globe and Mail
China's North Korea Dilemma
Hui Zhang, Los Angeles Times
3 Small Wars That Could Become Vietnam
David Francis, Fiscal Times
The Pentagon's Dangerous Metals Gap
Dan McGroarty, RealClearWorld
Humanity Is Not a Plague Upon the Earth
Alex Berezow, USA Today
Spain Probably Won't Catch Italian Flu
Hugo Dixon, Reuters
Foreign Aid Fueling Civil War in Congo?
Anjan Sundaram, Foreign Policy
Human Rights Commissions Have Had Their Day
Jon Kay, Nat'l Post
Thursday, March 7
Where's the World's Policeman?
Hugh Cortazzi, Japan Times
End of the Chavez-Ahmadinejad Affair
Ely Karmon, Haaretz
Time to Recognize Merkel's Greatness
Bill Jamieson, The Scotsman
Russia's Cult of Stalin Is Thriving
Uwe Klussmann, Der Spiegel
Egypt Is Sliding Toward Ruin
David Ignatius, Washington Post
U.S. and Europe: Separated at Birth?
Peter Baldwin, American Interest
World Has More Energy Than Ever
Vince Beiser, Pacific Standard
Russia's Superpower Delusions
Alexander Golts, Moscow Times
The Green Agenda in Meltdown
Peter Glover, The Commentator
The Global Economy's Dirty Secret
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Why Won't Obama Defend Japan?
Ross Terrill, The Weekly Standard
Pistorius Case Takes Racial Turn
Khaya Dlanga, Mail and Guardian
Predatory Culture Hampers Nigeria
Kaplan & Schroeder, Stratfor
Time to End the Arab Boycott of Israel
Ed Husain, New York Times
Real Downton Abbeys Are Struggling
Robert Hardman, Spectator
Friday, March 8
Why We Give Foreign Aid
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Obama in Israel: The Start of a New Era?
Ami Ayalon, Los Angeles Times
A Blank Check for Israel? Bad Idea
Matthew Duss, The American Prospect
Iran's North Korean Example
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Magazine
U.S. Can't Afford a Chinese Economic Collapse
Zachary Karabell, Reuters
How China Propped Up Hugo Chavez
Sanderson & Forsythe, FP
Chavez's Death a Huge Opportunity for Venezuela
Lawrence Haas, IBT
Do Violent Countries Have More Guns?
Alex Berezow, RealClearScience
Gun Rights & U.S. Exceptionalism
Elkins, Ginsburg & Melton, Bloomberg
Promise and Peril of India's Youth Bulge
Danielle Rajendram, Diplomat
So Much for Canada's Conservative Era
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
Good News! They Hate Me in Russia
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Japan's Home-Grown National Security Obsession
Amy Catalinac, EAF
'Little Europeans' Must Leave S. Africa
Brad Cibane, Mail & Guardian
Time to Get Tough on Burma
Eric Randolph, Foreign Affairs
Saturday, March 9
America's Italian Future
Michael Ledeen, Weekly Standard
Europe Is Ripe for an Explosion
Peter Spiegel, Financial Times
Seal the Deal with Iran
Ray Takeyh, New York Times
Growing Up in the World's Deadliest City
Jeremy Relph, BuzzFeed
Is This the Year Putin Collapses?
Andrei Piontkovsky, Moscow Times
Chavez's Bolivarian Bust
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
Chavez: Good Timing, Bad Leadership
David Frum, National Post
A Well-Timed Pivot to the Pacific
Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
America's Biggest Blunder Ever
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch
A Third Intifada Looms?
Paul Gillespie, Irish Times
Africa's Cocaine Hub
Alexander Smoltczyk, Der Spiegel
How Mining Is Wrecking Australia
Debra Jopson, The Global Mail
Washington's Venezuela Dilemma
Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review
Could North Korea Nuke Washington?
Nate Cohn, The New Republic
Iran's First Revolution
Amir-Hussein Radjy, openDemocracy
Sunday, March 10
Britain: A Nation in Decay
Ha-Joon Chang, The Guardian
In Britain, Cameronism at an Impasse
John O'Sullivan, Globe and Mail
The Mideast Just Became China's Problem
Robin Mills, Foreign Policy
A Need for Rules on Drones
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Drones Save Lives
Douglas Murray, Wall Street Journal
How a U.S. Citizen Got in America's Cross Hairs
New York Times
What Fidel Castro Taught Hugo Chavez
Francisco Toro, The Australian
Did We Win the Iraq War? Wrong Question
Andrew Bacevich, Wash Post
The Men Who Might Be Pope
Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
U.S. Could Be Courting Trouble in Europe
Joel Kotkin, OC Register
Germany's New Anti-Euro Party
Charles Hawley, Der Spiegel
Why EU Plan to Ban Porn Is a Bad Idea
Zack Beauchamp, Think Progress
Bloggers: Xi's Best Weapon or Worst Nightmare?
Brice Pedroletti, Monde
Splendid China: The Disney Land of Sinicization!
James Griffiths, Vice
Israel's Capitalist Election
Mati Wagner, Commentary Magazine
RCW Top 5: The Five Countries Americans Hate the Most
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