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Middle East: Things Look Catastrophic But It Will Work Out, Why I’m...
Middle East: Things Look Catastrophic but It Will Work Out, Why I’m Optimistic By Barry Rubin Every day dreadful things happen in the Middle East and in the echoes of that region—diplomacy, news...
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Iraq’s Security Forces: ‘Heroes of the Nation’– Sotal Iraq, Iraq
By anyone’s measure, it has been a long, hard road for the Iraqi people. This article by columnist Imad Al Akhras of the newspaper Sotal Iraq, reflects evident pride, and heaps almost Koranic praise...
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U.S. Border Guard Must Face Mexican Justice: La Cronica de Hoy, Mexico
Does the U.S. government have an obligation to extradite a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with murder on Mexican territory? According to Jose Contreras of México’s La Chronica De Hoy, the answer...
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Iraqi Politicians Praise America Without Cause!: Kitabat, Iraq
Judging from this article from Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, appearing to favor policies of the United States – even if they are in the interests of Iraq in general – could be dangerous to your political...
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Muqtada al-Sadr and Nouri al-Maliki: More Shiite or Iraqi? – Iraq News...
Recently there have been reports that thanks to the support of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr – and the tacit consent of Iran and even the U.S. – Nouri Al-Maliki is close to being named for a second...
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Egypt’s Young People ‘Assault the Heavens’: La Jornada, Mexico
What can we expect from the uprisings that have suddenly erupted in Muslim lands? Highlighting the confusion over Egypt, La Jornada columnist Jose Steinsleger, who appears to be a confounded,...
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Why San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is the ‘Pride of China’ (Beijing Youth Daily,...
Should China’s people feel pride that the state of California contracted over two dozen giant steel modules for the San Francisco Bay Bridge out to a firm in Shanghai rather than building them in...
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How the Iraqi Resistance Saved Women from the Americans (Al Watan, Oman)
Could it be that part of America’s plan for the Iraqi invasion was to undermine the Iraqi family by luring women and girls to work for the occupation? For Oman’s Al Watan in an article reminiscent of...
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America’s Young People Turn Against ‘Patriotic Bravado’ (Gazeta, Russia)
Are young people in America less stridently nationalistic than their predecessors? Columnist Fyodor Lukyanov of Russia’s Gazeta, citing recent Pew Research Center polling data, asserts in this...
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Why China’s People Favor American Police Over Their Own (Huanqiu, China)
A few days ago, an elderly Chinese gentleman in New York was injured in a tussle with New York police officers, who detained the man for jaywalking. According to this editorial from the state-run...
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The Demons of Democracy
Here they are again, the demons of democracy making a reappearance and questing for power. For a while, it had seemed as if they were under control, poking their heads out now and then, but hidden for...
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American Demagogue
While “The Donald” cannot exactly be equated with Hitler, to make an impact in his campaign for president among citizens who distrust government officials and politicians, he is using many of the...
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Trumpism: Made in Europe
WASHINGTON — Here’s the irony of Donald Trump’s “America First,” immigrant-bashing, free-trade-averse, make-us-great-again nationalism: It is a European import. The American right has typically been...
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Is Brexit a Harbinger of Trumpism?
Patrick Chappatte, The International New York Times With apologies to the climactic song in “Les Miserables,” here are the self-destructive Brits who voted yesterday to exit the European Union. Cue the...
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Cartoon: Brexit
Brexit by Clay Jones Sorry I didn’t write a column for the last two cartoons. I actually received a few comments on social media and more than one email asking why. I appreciate that some people...
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Democrats should not be too cocky about defeating Trump
WASHINGTON — “You must be having a blast.” If I had a nickel for every time somebody said this to me during this election, I could close Donald Trump’s fundraising gap with Hillary Clinton. But I’m...
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Learning from Britain’s unnecessary crisis
WASHINGTON — Elites are in trouble. High levels of immigration are destabilizing our democracies. Politicians who put their short-term political interests over their countries’ needs reap the...
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Bigots, Billionaires, and Borders: The Duke-Trump Fever Swamp
Donald Trump will lose the presidential election this Fall. He will do so because he’s professionally and politically unqualified, because he’s temperamentally (perhaps clinically) unsound and...
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Trump White Nationalism
Deng Coy Miel, Singapore See great cartoons by all the top political cartoonists at http://cagle.com. To license this cartoon for your own site, visit http://politicalcartoons.com The post Trump White...
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A disgraceful exercise in cruelty
RJ Matson, Roll Call WASHINGTON — President Trump’s refugee ban and travel restrictions are a disgraceful exercise in cruelty. They do nothing to make us safer — and may, in fact, make us less safe —...
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