I generally agree with Haaretz columnist and Tel Aviv University Prof. Carlo Strenger, who supports democracy and freedoms for all individuals in Israel and the Palestinian territories, often opting to prioritize these values above and beyond any political motives aimed toward the peace process. And, in this vain, I agree one hundred percent with Strenger’s […]
Victory for the British Tories came with a price. Several of Cameron’s front bench candidates for ministerial positions learned this the hard way, when they were informed they missed out on a cabinet position, in order to make room for their Liberal Democratic colleagues. The skipped over MPs are not alone in feeling that the […]
That is the grim milestone of American deaths in Afghanistan since the war began in late 2001. Though it can be argued exactly what the real total may be (some say 970, while others over 1,060) the toll our American servicemen and women have given in this fight cannot. Sadly and tellingly, American deaths have […]
Everyone knows that the physicist turned human rights crusader Andrei Sakharov was a dissident, but what about oligarch turned oppositionist Khodorkovsky? Foreign Policy magazine seems to think so. Yet the article’s simplistic title (‘Khodorkovsky – the Billionaire Dissident’) obscures an admirable level of nuance achieved by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, who write: The idea […]
Economic growth is enormously difficult to measure, never mind to predict, but signs point to economic growth rates of 4.2% to 4.8% across Africa in the next year. (As a sign of how inexact all of this is, the stories linked above vary in their assessments of the last year’s economy in Africa, with one […]
Robert Nolan guest blogs from Brussels As European finance ministers meet once again this week in Brussels, questions linger over the nature — and pace — of economic reforms under consideration by the European Union in the wake of the Greek tragedy. While many national governments have agreed to new austerity measures amidst growing resistance […]
By Rich Basas (originally posted on FPA’s Latin America blog, here) The last summer created a great shift in the discussion on security and the nuclear issue worldwide. Protesters in Iran took to the street after a perceived action by President Ahmadinejad in fixing the elections in Iran to maintain himself in power with the […]
Early Saturday morning the empty truck of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos was found at the gate of his ranch. There were no signs of a shootout, just a smattering of blood that matches Cevallos’ type on a pair of scissors that he was known to use to trim his beard. A logical suspicion is kidnapping. […]
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Both houses of Nigeria’s parliament have confirmed newly sworn President Goodluck Jonathan’s choice of Kaduna state governor Namadi Sambo as the country’s new vice-president. Observers believe that by choosing the relatively unknown Sambo Jonathan, a northerner (Jonathan comes from the south), has revealed his intention to run for a full term in the country’s 2011 […]
The opposition BNP might have learned the wrong lesson from recent news of political unrest in Thailand. Perhaps that is why senior members of the party have urged Khaleda Zia to endorse a spate of popular unrest modeled on Thailand’s Red-shirts movement. Happily, saner minds have argued against that position claiming that the party isn’t […]
The announcement this morning that Iran will give up the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey has been met with quite a bit of fanfare. However, the deal is virtually irrelevant. This deal was put in place in an effort to curb sanctions and provide the impression that Iran wants to negotiate and make […]
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