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What a Deal Between Ukraine and Russia Could Look Like
All eyes will focus this week on Minsk where Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko. After coming close to armed confrontation over the aid-laden convoy Russia sent into Ukraine’s eastern region last week, the encounter…
Obama Makes the Middle East Our New ‘Quagmire’
Quagmire” is a term commonly associated with Vietnam, but we need to haul it out of storage. There is no other way to describe the mess the Obama administration has led us into in the Middle East. President Obama and…
The Eurozone’s So-Called Recovery Is a Bust
It’s almost a year since the eurozone was supposed to enter recovery mode. But you can’t eat statistics, as people in the southern-rim crisis nations have learned. Even now, the laser-thin growth numbers sustaining the “austerity works” argument are evaporating….
After the genocide: What’s next for Gaza and the hope for Middle East peace?
Nearly 2,000 are dead and a cease-fire brings little peace of mind. But there may be glimmers of hope after tragedy Now that Israel has finally let up on what looks like a genocidal campaign in Gaza, I cannot think…
Jill Abramson’s sad admission: “I don’t think the press, in general, did publish any stories that upset the Bush White House”
Why did the New York Times back down again and again and hold important stories? The reasons are infuriating There are some singular features of our time — truly the time of the assassins, to take Henry Miller’s phrase. The…
Obama’s Road to Unintended Consequences in Ukraine
Is the ever-tougher economic squeeze of Russia for its not-quite-clear role in the Ukraine crisis a 21st century rerun of the Treaty of Versailles, the recklessly punitive settlement that turned out to be the mulch of the global conflagration that defined…
Propaganda ministers, all of them: Our pathetic, spoon-fed media pushes half-truths, again
You can’t separate MH-17 debate from Ukraine debate. Washington wants to, and a compliant media helps — as always I would like to meet Anastasia Lukina. No, not because of the elegant name. I have two better reasons. Lukina is…
Let Europe Do the Heavy Political Lift with Putin
“It’d be unwise to say, well, the Russians did it, or the Ukrainian government did it, or the rebels did it.” That is none other than Ron Paul, the former presidential candidate from Texas, talking to Newsmax TV Friday, hours…
The truth about the immigration “crisis”: Our drug policies and U.S.-backed tyrants created Central America’s culture of violence
If you want to really understand what’s happening at the border, revisit the violence we visited upon the region Some years ago, I flew in from Asia to interview some State Department people and stayed with my dear friend Judith…
How Obama Lost Friends in Europe and Influence Globally
Bad comes to worse in the Obama administration’s ties with Europe. Obama’s trans-Atlantic crisis is less dramatic than his other foreign policy failures: Syria, Egypt, the Mideast, China. But the implications of this debacle could prove profoundly significant—politically and diplomatically,…
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