Week of December 15, 2014 Archives

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Monday, December 15
Sit Back and Watch the Putin Regime Rot
P.J. O'Rourke, World Affairs
5 People Escape Sydney Hostage Crisis
Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press
Torturing Muslims Is not 'Awesome'
Dexter Thomas, Al Jazeera
Brussels Is the Poster Child for Inequality
Bleri Lleshi, EU Observer
Egypt's Secular Authorities Round Up Gays
Bel Trew, Foreign Policy
What Israel's Energy Boom Cannot Do
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Abe's Real Goal: Ramp Up the Military
Satoshi Kamata, Asahi Shimbun
The Battle for Sri Lanka's Future
Sudha Ramachandran, The Diplomat
Sydney Siege Could Last Days
The Australian
The Fight for a Global Financial Transaction Tax
Kavaljit Singh, EAF
Analyzing Germany's Right Wing
Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle
America, the Land of Paranoia and Fear
Tony Karon, The National
New Scottish Labour Leader Channels Blair
G. Eaton, New Statesman
Japan's Premier Gets Another Shot
Volker Stanzel, ECFR
Tuesday, December 16
How Much Oil Can the U.S. Export?
Ed Morse, Foreign Policy
Russia's Baltic Games
J. Gotkowska, European Council on Foreign Relations
Italy's Coming Year of Reckoning
Scott MacDonald, National Interest
The Abolition of Nuclear Abolition
James Carroll, TomDispatch
Israel Needs Unity, not Crass Opportunism
Isi Leibler, Israel Hayom
Iranian Markets Are Rattled
Al-Monitor
Russian Pilots Suffer Top Gun Syndrome
Marc Champion, Bloomberg
Europe, the CIA, and Torture
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
South Sudan Needs Brave Leadership
John Kerry & Susan Rice, WaPo
Israeli Elections and American Discomfort
Jonathan Cook, The National
Focus the Debate on How to Beat ISIS
Marco Rubio, Miami Herald
Here's How the US Can Counter OPEC's Price War
C. Faulkner, LA Times
Where Sweden Goes, Europe Follows
Dominic Green, Weekly Standard
Palestinians Are Through Waiting
Farah Stockman, Boston Globe
Illustrating the Great Ruble Meltdown
Matthew Yglesias, Vox
Russia, Ukraine, and the Battle for the German Soul
P. Gregory, Forbes
Wednesday, December 17
Russia Seen from Within
George Friedman, Stratfor
French Republicanism on the Wane
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
The Pakistani Taliban's War on Children
Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
Russia May Host Kim Jong Un in May
Leo Byrne, NK News
Nary a pro-Russian Left in East Ukraine
Joel Weickgenant, RCW
Don't Underestimate Putin Now
Joshua Keating, Slate
The UN Wants to Turn Back the Clock to pre-1948
Anne Bayefsky, JPost
Curing the Side Effects of Globalization
Max Tholl, The European
Mediterranean Gas Is not the Answer for Europe
Michael Leigh, GMF
2014: A Year in North Korea Security
Francisco Galamas, The Diplomat
Russian Shopkeepers Abandon the Ruble
Sarah Kaufman, Vocativ
Pakistan Reinstates Death Penalty for Terror
Al-Arabiya
Why Did Militants Murder Dozens of Children?
Amanda Taub, Vox
Asia Needs to Prepare for a China Crash
William Pesek, Bloomberg View
Thursday, December 18
Three Decades of Stupid Foreign Policy Just Ended
J. Fallows, Atlantic
The Virtue of Amoral Foreign Policy
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
U.S. Foreign Policy Collapses
Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard
China Is all Talk on Innovation
Li Wenbo, Economic Observer
A Victory for Oppression
Marco Rubio, Wall Street Journal
Christians Vanish from the Middle East
C. Sahner, Project Syndicate
'Blame America First' Crowd Gets a Win in Cuba
Elliott Abrams, NRO
London's Incompetence Is Crushing the Union
S. Jenkins, The Guardian
The Reality about Chinese Emissions
Derek Scissors, AEI
Obama's Cuban Gift to Marco Rubio
E. Lake & J. Rogin, Bloomberg View
France Obsesses Over an Existential Decline
E. Zerofsky, New Yorker
On Cuba, History Has Passed on by the GOP
Carol Giacomo, New York Times
Obama's Vague Cuba Project
Charles Lane, Washington Post
What Drove Cuba to Make a Deal?
Joshua Keating, Slate
Can U.S.-Cuba Thaw Help End War in Colombia?
Richard McColl, DB
Friday, December 19
A Watershed Moment for the U.S. and Cuba
W. Mead, American Interest
A Portentous Russian Centennial Looms
Samuel Bendett, RealClearWorld
The Progress Cuba Has Made
Pierre Atlas, Indianapolis Star
Go West, Young Han
Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch
Remembering the Siege: Roses of Sarajevo
P. Korchnak, Compass Cultura
What About the Embargo "Hasn't Worked?"
Andrew McCarthy, PJ Media
Turkey Falls under a Fever of Despotism
Sinem Adar, Al Jazeera
Palestinians Roll the U.N. Dice
Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy
With a Sense of Dread, Lithuania Joins the Euro
M. Gilbert, Bloomberg
China Scours the Globe for Farmland
Loro Horta, Yale Global
Loutish Tourists Harm China's Soft Power
Jin Kai, The Diplomat
Lebanon Reaches out to Its Diaspora
Jean Aziz, Al-Monitor
Surprise! UKIP Was Right
Nigel Farage, Independent
Arabic, a Language of Poetry and Science
The National
Saturday, December 20
Pakistan Retaliates Against the Taliban
Omar Waraich, Independent
ISIS Moves Into Afghanistan as the US Moves Out
Daily Beast
Russian Billionaires Beholden to Putin
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Recapturing Russian Imperial Glory in the Arctic
Luke Coffey, Al Jazeera
Did Venezuelan Oil Affect Cuba's US Move?
Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald
You Can't Trust Oil
Kelly McParland, National Post
Will Political Change Come from Cheap Oil?
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe & Mail
Saudis Crashing Oil Markets to Undermine Iran
Andrew Scott Cooper, FP
We're Losing the Cyber War
Fraser Nelson, The Telegraph
Dropping 'The Interview' Emboldens Terrorists
Fareed Zakaria, WaPo
Beware of Chinese Hegemony
Rebecca Liao, National Interest
Tony Abbott and Australian Leaders Grow Up
Peter Hartcher, SMH
Sunday, December 21
The Superpower that Lost Its Punch
Benny Avni, New York Post
What Will Israel Become?
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Paris Loses Its Architectural Vision
Richard Williams, Foreign Policy
Obama Misses the Point of Isolating Cuba
Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
On Tipping in Cuba
Chris Turner, The Walrus
Beware Chinese Hegemony
Rebecca Liao, The National Interest
Embrace China's New Silk Road Initiative
Naser al-Tamimi, Al-Arabiya
5 U.S. Industries Set to Win Big in Cuba
Micheline Maynard, Forbes
The Man Who Ruined Russia's Economy
Ben Judah, BBC
Defying Terror and the Pakistani State
Sonya Rehman, The Diplomat
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