Kevin Williamson, National Review
What Guatemala needs is capitalism.
Nanjala Nyabola, Al Jazeera
In Sudan the interests of powerful states are trumping values of multilateralism.
Anonymous, Guardian
The extradition bill would bulldoze our legal system and damage our economy, says an anonymous retired Hong Kong lawyer
CG Fewston, The American Conservative
Authorities are violently cracking down on protesters who oppose a bill that would extradite people to China. Is resistance futile?
Thomas Wright, The Atlantic
He articulated a values-based liberal internationalism, even as he sometimes struggled to fill in the details.
Philip Collins, Times of London
Amid the fantasies and delusions of a contest that brings shame on the Conservative Party, the key figure may be emerging. While attention is fixed on the committee rooms of Westminster and...
Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg View
A proposed law could prevent some interference. But a larger problem remains.
R. Eldridge, JT
Are Japan's politicians are up to the test if the Senkaku Islands were seized?
Abdulaziz Kilani, LobeLog
The force used against protesters suggests that a remake of al-Bashir's regime is in progress, which dashes the people's hopes for democracy. The man complicit in the crimes in Darfur in 2003, Hemedti, is now one of the country's main leaders. Did the military council start a coup against Omar al-Bashir, pushed by the protesters, for the sake of Sudan or for the sake of saving themselves?
Zach Vertin, Foreign Policy
South Sudan was born amid great hope but has since descended into war. It will take a new generation of leaders to make it a successful state.
Franois Delattre, New York Times
Parting thoughts from a French diplomat as he leaves America.
Jim Hanson, Fox News
The patience of the Trump administration with Iranian aggression is running out. A US military attack on Iran may be coming.
A. Cordesman, CSIS
The threat of war with Iran may seem distant to many in United States and Europe, but its strategic implications became all too clear only hours after two freshly loaded tankers the Frontline and the Kokuka Courageous were attacked in the Gulf of Oman on June 12, 2019 just outside the "Persian" or "Arab" Gulf. These attacks came less than a month after four previous attacks on tankers near a port in the UAE, and after months of rising tensions over Iran's nuclear programs... Читать дальше...
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman have heightened tensions between the United States and Iran and raised concerns about energy security.
Jason Kirby, Maclean's
Canada's housing markets are rife with shadowy buyers and greasy cash. B.C. was just the beginning.
Hilton Yip, Foreign Policy
The city's leaders are answerable to the party, not the public.
Mohamed El-Erian, Pro. Syn.
After overcoming significant political and economic headwinds during the past decade, the US economy now appears to have undergone its longest sustained expansion in history. Yet, behind the data showing historically low unemployment and long-awaited wage growth lie vulnerabilities that cannot be ignored.
J. Wasserstrom, Atlantic
The demonstrations have parallels to the Tiananmen Square protests, but the legacy of another event on June 4, 1989, could shape Hong Kong's future.
Jeffie Lam, SCMP
Those protesting against the contentious extradition bill have learned the lessons of 2014. They are tolerant of different views, careful with their identities and freed by a lack of leadership.
Brad Glosserman, Japan Times
Tokyo will be increasingly squeezed between demands from its ally and those from its top export market and driver of its economy.
Lorcan Lovett, The Diplomat
A new free speech movement clashes with Myanmar's military.
Heba Saleh, FT
While Sudan's civilian uprising is crushed in a bloody crackdown, Algeria's peaceful protest movement continues unabated and might even yield results despite the apparent intransigence of the regime's military leaders, analysts say.
Nicholas Kristof, NY Times
A quarter of the world??s children are stunted from inadequate diets.
Victor Davis Hanson, Wash. Times
What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump's election and the yellow vests protests in France? What drives the growing estrangement of Southern and Eastern Europe from the European Union establishment? What fuels the anti-EU themes of recent European elections and the stunning recent Australian re-election of conservatives?
Daniel Larison, Amer. Cons.
Journalists and analysts were targeted because they were independent and credible observers and critics of Iran and U.S. Iran policy.
