Week of October 28, 2013 Archives

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Monday, October 28
A Foreign Policy Based on Fantasy
Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Why America Should Spy on Europe
Tom Rogan, National Review
China's Impossible Contradiction
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph
Russia Prepares For a Very Cold War
Alexander Golts, Kommersant/WC
Saudi Arabia's Message to Obama
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Maliki's Democratic Farce
Ramzy Mardini & Emma Sky, New York Times
Pull Baghdad from Iran's Orbit
Amir Taheri, New York Post
Syria, Hezbollah Have Hollowed Out Lebanon
Hussein Ibish, The National
Benghazi Was Planned, Sophisticated Attack
Lara Logan, 60 Minutes
Britain's Railways Have Become a Joke
John Harris, The Guardian
Why Is China Snubbing Norway?
Christopher Beam, Associated Press
How to Handle Russia
Corboy, Courtney & Yalowitz, The National Interest
How Europe Can Protect the United States
Brzezinski & O’Reilly, RCD
Are Settlements Really Hurting Israel?
Moshe Dann, Jerusalem Post
The Plight of Mideast Christians
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Daily Beast
Tuesday, October 29
Hezbollah's Syria Invasion
Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast
Why Abenomics Won't Work in China
William Pesek, Bloomberg
Europe's Phone Tapping Complaints Ring Hollow
Alex Berezow, RCW
Merkel's Indignation Is Genuine and Rightly So
Charlotte Potts, CNN
Germany Hasn't Earned Its Outrage
John Vinocur, Wall Street Journal
Jokes Aside, North Korea Is a Deadly Serious Place
Ian Birrell, Guardian
How to Negotiate with Iran
Ross, Edelman & Makovsky, Los Angeles Times
China Is Now the OPEC of Rare Earths
Daniel McGroarty, RealClearWorld
Greenland's Rare Earths Gold Rush
A. Gravgaard, Foreign Affairs
Is Iraq's Present Afghanistan's Future?
Max Boot, Commentary
Fury in the Saudi Kingdom
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Druze in Syria Could Be Israeli Ally
Ariel Ben Solomon, Jerusalem Post
Tracking the Iran-Backed Naval Fleet Fueling Assad
Michael Weiss, FP
Cuba and the Two Currencies
Carlos Alberto Montaner, Miami Herald
Pax Britannica Was Good for Civilization
Samuel Chi, RealClearHistory
Wednesday, October 30
The World Has Never Had It So Good
Allister Heath, Daily Telegraph
Will the EU Kill America's Death Penalty?
Ben Richmond, Vice
Anti-Semitism Now Mainstream in France
Guy Milliere, Gatestone
Obama's Dirty War
Jeremy Scahill, TomDispatch
A New Age in U.S.-Mideast Relations
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
A Breath of Fresh Air from China
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
India Is Completely Adrift
Harsh Pant, Yale Global
Syria's Secular Opposition Implodes
Luke Kummer, The New Republic
The Real Spying Scandal in Germany
Moises Naim, The Atlantic
Barack Obama the Isolationist
Ed Krayewski, Reason
Canadian Doctors Want to Pull the Plug
Kate Lunau, Maclean's
Vatican a Supra-National Force for Good
Francis Rooney, The American
China Still Backs North Korea to the Hilt
Bae Myung-bok, JoongAng Daily
Britain Needs a First Amendment
Nick Cohen, The Spectator
10 Reasons Francois Hollande Flopped in France
Agnes Poirier, Guardian
Thursday, October 31
Pitfalls of a 'Realist' Mideast Strategy
David Ignatius, Washington Post
The Slow Death of American Defense
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
How Obama Lost Iraq
Sens. John McCain & Lindsey Graham, Foreign Policy
Are China's Banks Next?
Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate
New Dem Iran Plan: Wait Four Months
Adam Kredo, Wash. Free Beacon
Germany Must Embrace Espionage
Jan Techau, Financial Times
Tap on Merkel Provides Peek at Vast Spy Net
Mazzetti & Sanger, NY Times
The Kurds Get a Second Chance in Syria
Fouad Ajami, Bloomberg
City of Refugees: Syrians in Amman
Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen
Why Saudis Really Fear Warmer U.S.-Iran Ties
Kaveh Waddell, Atlantic
UK Is Still a World Player
Douglas Alexander & Ian Kearns, The Scotsman
Can We Just 'Vacuum' China's Smog Away?
Amar Toor, The Verge
Russia's Spying Craze
Andrei Soldatov, Moscow Times
Israeli City Divided by Religion After Close Vote
Aron Heller, AP
So Long, Saakashvili
Thomas de Waal, Foreign Affairs
Friday, November 1
The Saudis Are Mad? Tough!
Fareed Zakaria, Time
Is America Losing Its Two Mideast Pillars?
Aaron David Miller, FP
Saudis Are Engaged in a Great Gamble
Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph
Japan's New (Defensive) Attack Force
Trefor Moss, The Diplomat
Germany Seethes at U.S. Economic Criticism
Chris Alessi, Der Spiegel
Snowden Has Japan Copying China's Playbook
William Pesek, Bloomberg
Is Turkey Abetting Iran?
Jonathan Schanzer, The National Interest
Dictators in the Age of Instagram
Emily Greenhouse, New Yorker
The Putin Olympics
Anne Jolis, Wall Street Journal
Dangerous Stalemate Between Japan & S. Korea
Dan Sneider, Wash Post
Eighteen Years After Quebec's Close Call
L. Ian MacDonald, Ottawa Citizen
Young, Restless and Indian
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, NY Times
Is Europe at Risk of Polio?
Declan Butler, Nature
The PA's Revealing Silence on Syria
Evelyn Gordon, Commentary
Scandinavian Women Make the World Jealous
Lynn Parramore, Reuters
Saturday, November 2
Hard Truths About the Decline of Britain
Jeremy Warner, Telegraph
Why Canadians Embraced Government Healthcare
Robert Fulford, NP
How Badly Has Snowden Wrecked American Power?
James Lewis, CSIS
Can Obama Avoid U.S. Decline?
Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review
The EU Wants to Tell Us How to Flush the Loo
Tom Utley, Daily Mail
Why Russia Can't Let Go of Ukraine (But Will)
Fyodor Lukyanov, RIGA
Syria: The Next Blowback
Paul Rogers, openDemocracy
Decline Is a Choice
Daniel Johnson, Standpoint
A Yellow Card, Than Brutality in Brazil
Longman & Barnes, NYT
One Cheer for Sharia
Shikha Dalmia, Reason
7 Ways the Saudis Could Make U.S. Life Hell
Simon Henderson, FP
Jewish and Democratic Is Israel's Path
Shaul Arieli, Haaretz
A Dangerous Game
Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard
The Best Thing Left Behind in Afghanistan
Jonathan Foreman, Spectator
The New Center of the World
Rory Medcalf, The American Interest
Sunday, November 3
Calling America: Hello? Hello? Hello?
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Will Singapore Clean Up Its Act?
Martin Hesse, Der Spiegel
Southern Europe Is on a Precipice
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph
How Walmart Plans to Conquer China
Tang Xiangyang, Econ. Observer
Reform in China, but Not the Political Kind
Ian Bremmer, Reuters
The U.S. and Pakistan: An Incompatible Couple
Dilip Hiro, Yale Global
How Putin Bested Obama
Aurel Braun, Commentary Magazine
Is China About to Crack Down on J.P. Morgan, Too?
Jamila Trindle, FP
Call Tiananmen Attack What It Was: Terrorism
A. Rippa, Diplomat
An Uneasy Peace Between China and Taiwan
J. Michael Cole, Ottawa Cit.
Rwanda the Key to Congo's Peace
John Prendergast & Sasha Lezhnev, CNN
Toronto Desperately Needs Political Parties
John Barber, Toronto Star
What Indian Hospitals Can Teach U.S.
Govindarajan & Ramamurti, WaPo
The Dutch Rethink the Welfare State
Nima Sanandaji, New Geography
Juan Valdez vs. Starbucks: The Global Coffee War
Jim Wyss, Miami Hld
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