Week of August 5, 2013 Archives

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Monday, August 5
The War on Terror Is Far from Over
Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph
State Department's al-Qaeda Freakout
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Syria War Splits Nation into 3 Distinct Regions
Zeina Karam, AP
China's Old Guard Hits the Panic Button
Russell Leigh Moses, WSJ
What Failed in Pakistan Won't Work in Egypt
David Rohde, Reuters
Egypt Opens New Chapter of Fear
Ahmed Maher, Washington Post
Why Release 100 Murderous Terrorists?
Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Can the Mideast Avoid a Water War?
Mark Zeitoun, The National
Will Fraud Kevin Rudd Fool Aussies Again?
Tom Switzer, The Spectator
The Feminists of Zion
Allison Kaplan Sommer & Dahlia Lithwick, TNR
Hollywood's Pact with Hitler, and Now China
Kyle Smith, NY Post
Sun Tzu Would Disapprove of China's Strategy
Robert Manning, TNI
Can Bogota and FARC Finally Make Peace?
Anne Phillips, Foreign Affairs
In Nepal, Time to Press the Poll Button
Prashant Jha, The Hindu
Eating Ice Cream with al-Qaeda in Syria
Hannah Lucinda Smith, Vice
Tuesday, August 6
The Euro's Morality Lesson
Roger Cohen, New York Times
It's Time for Obama to Defy Putin
Nicholas Wapshott, Reuters
Boycotting Sochi Olympics Is a Really Bad Idea
Romesh Ratnesar, BBW
Russia's Tiny Cold War
George Friedman, Stratfor
Does Asia Want U.S.-China Confrontation?
Yanhong Xu, RealClearDefense
Baghdad's Man Inside the Beltway
Josh Rogin, Newsweek
Egyptian Islamism Dead? Hardly
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Hoover Institution
Snowden, Amash and the Isolationist Peril
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
The GOP Isolationist Myth
Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
How al-Qaeda Pulled Off a Massive Iraq Jailbreak
Salman & Parker, FP
Is Oil the Next Front in al-Qaeda's War?
Daniel Graeber, RealClearEnergy
Your iPad Nearly Killed This Woman
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
Spain Should Want a Prosperous Gibraltar
Dan Hannan, The Telegraph
Italy Continues Its Assault on Science
Alex Berezow, RealClearWorld
Why Lady Gaga Is Screaming at Russia on Twitter
Caitlin Dewey, WaPo
Wednesday, August 7
Putin Is Testing President Obama
Aurel Braun, Globe and Mail
Welcome Back to the 19th Century
Adam Posen, Financial Times
China's Salami-Slicing Strategy
Brahma Chellaney, Washington Times
A Monstrous Crime for Welfare Benefits
Theodore Dalrymple, CJ
Kerry Is Daring to Fail in the Mideast
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Has al-Qaeda Won?
Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Zimbabwe's Warlord-in-Chief
Jean-Philippe Remy, Le Monde/Worldcrunch
Israel's Security Paradox
Frida Ghitis, The Atlantic
Why China Is Turning on North Korea
Michael Green, JoongAng Daily
On Iran, America Is Acting Like a Jerk
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
Putin's Russia Is Stable ... and Stagnating
Charles Grant, CER
Japan's Big Blunders
Shihoko Goto, The National Interest
Los Zetas' Brutality Is Here to Stay
Dyer & Sachs, Foreign Affairs
Inside North Korea's Summer Camp for Children
Kate Hoyland, BBC
Battling Fatbergs in London's Sewers
Rose George, New Statesman
Thursday, August 8
Vlad the Impaler
Kori Schake, Foreign Policy
Snowden the Least of America's Russian Problems
Philip Stephens, FT
Is Arab Chaos America's Problem?
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
The Battle for Mongolia's Resources
Bernhard Zand, Der Spiegel
The Great Southeast Asian Land Grab
John Cherry, The Diplomat
Is the EU Stopping Britain's Shale Revolution?
James Forsyth, Spectator
A Constitutional Crisis in Egypt
Jill Goldenziel & David Landau, LA Times
FARC Talks Not Helping Colombia's Santos
Raul Gallegos, Bloomberg
A Cautious Celebration in Burma
Kate Heartfield, Ottawa Citizen
Austerity with Chinese Characteristics
John Delury, Foreign Affairs
Yen's History a Cautionary Tale for Yuan
Dan McDowell, China-US Focus
Ask the Experts: Will Obama Bomb Iran?
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Can the West Build Bridges with the New Iran?
David Blair, Telegraph
Iran's Mounting Malaise
Jamsheed Choksy, Yale Global
Game Changer for China's Toymakers
Yang Xingyun, Economic Observer
Friday, August 9
Obama's War by Wordplay
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Dealing with the McQaeda Franchise
Fareed Zakaria, Time
How al-Qaeda Won the Arab Spring
Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy
Iran's Plan B for the Bomb
Amos Yadlin & Avner Golov, New York Times
Feebleness in the Executive
William Kristol, Weekly Standard
The Wrong Way to Punish Putin
Daniel Treisman, Foreign Affairs
Why American Primacy Is Not Assured
James Holmes, The Diplomat
Greece Becoming the New Kosovo
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
Will Marina Berlusconi Carry on the Dynasty?
Maria Corbi, Stampa/WC
Haiti: Different Faces, Same Corruption
Frandley Julien, Miami Herald
Politics a Blood Sport in Australia
John McTernan, The Scotsman
Why Are Foreigners Fleeing India's Economy?
Jason Overdorf, Global Post
Britain Should Embrace Rising Power Nigeria
Ian Birrell, The Guardian
Israel and the Gulf States: It's Complicated
Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel
Brazil's Problems May Be Just Beginning
Tim Fernholz, Quartz
Saturday, August 10
Germany Sleeps on a Volcano
Jurgen Habermas, Der Spiegel
The Secret Blueprint for al-Qaeda's Jihad
Rukmini Callimachi, AP
Egypt's Path to Democracy
Sens. McCain & Graham, Washington Post
Dream of Muslim Democracy Is Dead
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent
Obama Waffles and Fails in Egypt
Jonathan Tepperman, NYT
China's Syria Connection
Hugo Brennan, The National Interest
Don't Hold U.S.-Russian Ties Hostage to Snowden
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
Neocons vs. Isolationists: Let the Fun Begin
Matthew Duss, Am. Prospect
Polygamy Could Help Russia
Zotin & Kvasha, Kommersant/Worldcrunch
Japan Should Learn from History
Lu Yu, Xinhua News
Italian Politics: Racist or Insane (or Both)?
Tim Hedges, The Commentator
Why Europe May Play a Big Role in Palestine
Alan Philps, The National
How Many Acid Attacks Occur in the World?
Tom de Castella, BBC News
Why I Hate the English Countryside
Toby Young, The Spectator
The BBC's Intergalactic Export
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times
Sunday, August 11
Kansas and al-Qaeda
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Arabs Can't Blame America for Everything
Hussein Ibish, The National
Obama's Not to Be Trusted on Foreign Policy
Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph
In the Arab World, U.S. Is Low on Leverage
Doyle McManus, LA Times
Is the Putin-Obama Reset Dead?
Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon
A Bad Week for America
Conrad Black, National Post
Judge Iran by Its Actions, Not Its Empty Words
John Baird, Globe & Mail
Peace Is More than a Piece of Paper
Emily Schrader, Jerusalem Post
Don't Be Fooled by This 'Liberal' Pope
Nick Cohen, The Observer
The Abdication of Europe's Center-Right
Tom Gallagher, Commentator
How Labour Can Get Its Act Together
David Miliband, New Statesman
China's Worst Nightmare Is Turning Japanese
William Pesek, Bloomberg
U.S. Should Push on Cuban Dissident's Death
Andres Oppenheimer, MH
Will U.S. Media Ever Recognize Domestic Jihad?
Mark Steyn, NRO
The World's Most Important Hamburger
Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg FP
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