AUGUST 20, 2011 America’s leading Russia scholar reflects on the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse, and the new threats to the world order today. By NANCY DEWOLF SMITH Twenty years ago, on Aug. 19, an attempted coup in Moscow accidentally started the countdown on what would be the final days of the Soviet Union. The […]
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Beijing has chastised the U.S. for fiscal recklessness, but it may be headed for an economic collapse of its own. by Niall Ferguson | August 14, 2011 10:0 AM EDT Small wonder the Chinese news agency was on gloat mode during the week of Aug. 8. The U.S. stock market fell off a cliff, bounced
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AUGUST 13, 2011 He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president. By NORMAN PODHORETZ It’s open season on President Obama. Which is to say that the usual suspects on the right (among whom I include myself) are increasingly being joined in attacking him by erstwhile worshipers on the left. Even
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Nguyen Cao Ky, 1930-2011 David DeVoss August 8, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 44 ‘When we moved to California, I got a new Cadillac Seville,” Nguyen Cao Ky told me back in 1990. “One day I was driving around, dressed in some old shorts and a T-shirt, when a motorcycle
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July 20, 2011 By Ben Shapiro 7/20/2011 For those who couldn’t tell from my name, I’m a Jew. Not only am I Jew, I’m an Orthodox Jew. I pray three times a day to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I keep kosher. I wear phylacteries in the morning, and I say the Shema
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JUNE 6, 2011 By JOHN W. MILLER Getty ImagesLi Shufu, chairman of China’s Geely, which bought Volvo cars from Ford, seen at Tiananmen Square in March. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Experts are predicting a surge of overseas takeovers by Chinese companies over the next decade. A five-year plan Beijing approved in March calls for establishing
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OPINION APRIL 13, 2011 Athens Descends Into Anarchy The real Greek disease is contempt for the law, and the political failure to combat it. By TAKIS MICHAS Athens Greece’s public debt may reach 150% of GDP this year, an alarming possibility that has captivated outside observers. But in the final analysis, the major issue confronting
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APRIL 4, 2011 Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile
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