The genius of Vladimir Putin By Ralph Peters, Published: September 26 Washington Post There is one incontestably great actor on the world stage today, and he has no interest in following our script. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — soon to be Russia’s president again — has proven remarkably effective at playing the weak strategic hand […]
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011, 7:45 A.M. ET What American ‘Political Prisoners’? An American hiker channels Noam Chomsky after two years in Iranian jail. By JAMES KIRCHICK Imagine you are Shane Bauer, one of two American hikers released from Iranian captivity last week. On July 31, 2009, you’re traversing a mountain trail in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 There’s a reason that hatred of Israel played well on the Arab street. By JOSEF JOFFE I wasn’t alone, but the mea culpa is all mine. Like many, I thought that dawn was finally breaking over the Arab world when those nice, middle-class crowds thronged Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanting “freedom” and “democracy”
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FOXNEWS.COM September 9, 2011 CAIRO – Protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped documents out of the windows as hundreds more demonstrated outside, prompting the ambassador and his family to leave the country. The unrest was a further worsening of already deteriorating ties between Israel and post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt. Egyptian police
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JULY 27, 2011 By CHARLES LEVINSON ZINTAN, Libya—Motorists in Libya’s capital can wait days for fuel, and when they get it they have to spend about $12 a gallon—when they used to pay 60 cents. Bank withdrawals are limited to 1,000 Libyan dinars (about $625) a month. The prices of bread and other food staples
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JULY 9, 2011 Europeans pay tribute to a great American—and long for another. By PEGGY NOONAN What brilliant good it can do a country when the world respects, and will not forget, one of its leaders. What was vividly true 30 years ago is true today: The world looks to America. It doesn’t want to
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JULY 8, 2011 The dictators who came to power in the 1950s and ’60s were economic levelers who impoverished their countries. Today’s unrest is the result. By FOUAD AJAMI Mr. Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is co-chairman of Hoover’s Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. The late great Austrian
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JULY 2, 2011 Twenty-Four Reported Dead in Broad Rallies as Lawlessness Is Said to Undercut Regime’s Legitimacy Associated Press An image captured by cellphone and transmitted by a group that tracks Syria news shows protesters in the northern Kfar Nebel village on Friday demanding the exit of Assad. DAMASCUS—Demonstrators across Syria pressed their demands for
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JUNE 14, 2011 Lebanon is a money-laundering haven for the region’s bad guys. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Following the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a U.N. investigation noted that “it very much seems that fraud, corruption, and money-laundering could also have been motives” in the murder. Hariri,
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