Week of December 8, 2014 Archives

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Monday, December 8
The West Needs a Policy Pivot on Russia
Matthew Sussex, The Interpreter
Burma Backslides
Brett Crane, The American Interest
A Guide to Mugabe's New Regime
Simon Allison, Daily Maverick
Remembering the WWII Crimea Campaign
Jacob Kipp, War on the Rocks
Palestinians Suffer no Matter Who Leads Israel
S. Nashashibi, National
Britain Lends Russia Its Marbles, and that's Great
B. Johnson, Telegraph
Israel's Center Seeks an Identity
Susan Hattis Rolef, Jerusalem Post
It's Time to Hand Europe to the Young
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
The Complexity of Iran's Fight Against ISIS
Brian Downing, Asia Times
The Fading Palestinian Dream
The Week
Italy's Great, Reclusive Storyteller
Rachel Donadio, NY Review of Books
What Remains of the Dream of Tangier
Iain Finlayson, IB Taurus Blog
Ukraine's Revolution, One Year On
Owen Matthews, Newsweek
The Classic U.S. Planes Iran Uses to Attack ISIS
Mark Thompson, Time
Rescuing Hostages Is Never Easy
Martin Reardon, Al Jazeera
Tuesday, December 9
Venezuela Nears the Abyss
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
U.S. Senate Releases "CIA Torture Report"
Joel Weickgenant, RCWorld
Pundits Misunderstand the Japanese Economy
John Tamny, RCMarkets
Mum on the Scope of Austerity to Come
George Eaton, New Statesman
Driving Ukrainians into Putin's Arms
Lev Golinkin, New York Times
A Crucial Year Is Coming for Myanmar
Hunter Marston, The Diplomat
Hamas Is on Alert in Turkey
Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor
The Shoddy Case Against Austerity
Janan Ganesh, Financial Times
Mosul, a City at Death's Doorstep
James Denselow, Al Jazeera
The U.S. Oil Dream Is Caracas' Nightmare
M. Kounalakis, Sacamento Bee
Obama's Coming War with Congress over Iran
Eric Mandel, JPost
Rediscovering Pride in South America
Juan Manuel Ospina, Worldcrunch
Crisis Reaches Sweden
Carl Bildt, Project Syndicate
What Salmond Wants to Do in Westminster
M. Leith, The Conversation
China Threatens the Great Ocean Commons
Llewellyn King, Oil Price
Iran Is Getting a Pass on Its Support of Syria
Bob Feferman, The Algemeiner
Shades of Japan's Imperial Suicide
Noah Smith, JoongAng Daily
China Attacks Another Fishing Boat
Gary Sands, FP Blogs Network
Even Special Forces Fail Sometimes
Andrew Peek , New York Observer
Wednesday, December 10
How to Defeat the Islamic State's Soft Power
M. Christensen, RCWorld
History Suggests a Future for Europe
M. Fleming-Wiliams, Stratfor
Cracks Appear in Russia-led Customs Union
Georgy Bovt, Moscow Times
India's Unending Environmental Disaster
Backhaus & Salden, Spiegel
Europe Must Now Come Clean on Torture
N. Nougayrede, The Guardian
Did the CIA Go Rogue?
Tim Naftali, Slate
Coming Clean, with Bloodstained Hands
David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy
Top 5 Global Trends of 2014
Edward Goldberg, Huffington Post
How Everyone Can Win in Ukraine
O'Hanlon & Shapiro, Brookings
How Ad Campaigns Targeted WWI Soldiers
Simon Armstrong, BBC
The Torture Report, a Small Light in Vast Darkness
A. Sullivan, The Dish
Russia's Verbose Army of Internet Trolls
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Thursday, December 11
Time to End the EU-NATO Standoff
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Castlereagh: A Geopolitical Hero
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Russia Has no Oligarchs
Masha Gessen, New York Times
Obama's Palestinian Delusions
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Europe's New Age of Artistic Censorship
Tiffany Jenkins, New Republic
Palestinian Death Is Another Nail in the Coffin of Peace
C. Newton, DB
ISIS Wants $1 Million for James Foley's Body
Michael Hechtman, NY Post
Greenpeace Allegedly Defiles a UNESCO Site
Matt McGrath, BBC
Lebanon's Political Soothsayer Sees no Syria Solution
Ali Hashem, A-M
How Far Did Juncker Go to Court Amazon?
Bowers & Watt, The Guardian
Did Beijing Win in Hong Kong?
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Foreign Policy
Clearly, America Is not Exceptional
Rashmee Roshan Lall, The National
Israel Is Still doing America's Dirty Work
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Drubbing Taiwan's Powerhouse Party
Bao-chiun Jing, The Diplomat
Europe's False Aim at U.S. Tech Companies
Mandel & Marshall, The Hill
Friday, December 12
A Travesty of a Report
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Fatal Optimism of Russia's Central Bank
L. Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Putin Erases the Tatar Claim to History
Samuel Bendett, RealClearWorld
There Is no Quick Fix for Cyprus
Yusuf Kanli, Hurriyet Daily News
CIA Won't Rule Out Torture Techniques
Hudson & Ratnam, Foreign Policy
One Man's Mission Impossible: Reforming France
J.A. Heyer, Spiegel
The CIA Is a Product of the Age of Fear
Alan Philps, The National
Appeasing Russia Is not the Way to Peace
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
A Solution for Britain and the EU
Centre for Policy Studies
Salmond's Threat to English Democracy
V. Cooper, The Commentator
Russia Looks to Past Glories for Answers
Gleb Kuznetsov, Moscow Times
The 5 Strangest Places in the UK
Sam Jordison, The Guardian
Bush Had to Know About the CIA's Methods
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Greece Heads for Another Crisis
Paul Krugman, New York Times
Saturday, December 13
Optimism in Ukraine After Latest Truce
Nick Shchetko, WSJ
Russia Looks to the East
Elena Holodny, Business Insider
What Taiwan Can Learn from Hong Kong
The Diplomat
Did Beijing Win in Hong Kong?
Carrie Gracie, BBC
Japan's Nasty Nazi-ish Elections
Jake Adelstein, Daily Beast
Will the US Stick with Syrian Rebels?
Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View
We Can't Use the 9/11 AUMF in Perpetuity
Joshua Keating, Slate
Iran Must Weather the Oil Price Drop
Amir Handjani, National Interest
Can Herzog and Livni Topple Netanyahu?
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
A History of Hidden Deaths in Mexico
Joshua Partlow, Washington Post
Venezuela's President Might Not Survive Oil Price Drop
Juan Nagel, FP
What's Next for the International Criminal Court?
Erna Paris
Sunday, December 14
Waking Italy from Its Economic Slumber
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Greece Struggles to Modernize
Tony Barber, Financial Times
Remembering Stalinist Terrors in Moscow
Masha Lipman, New Yorker
Can Venezuela Stay Afloat?
Carl Meacham, CSIS
China to Stop Harvesting Organs from Death Row
Zhang Jin, Caixin
A Tortured, One-Sided Report
S. Hayes & T. Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
Remembering the Plea of a Chinese Dissident
Thor Halvorssen, Atlantic
It's China's Turn to Come Clean on Torture
Gary Sands, FP Blogs Network
King Dollar Conquers the World
Lawrence Kudlow, New York Sun
The Writer Who Wrought Gothic Fiction
Peter Ray Allison, BBC
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