Steven Cook, Foreign Policy
Turkey is more politically unstable today than at any other point in recent years.
Andrei Kolesnikov, Moscow Times
To people outside of Russia, it might seem deeply shocking and incomprehensible that Stalin's popularity is growing at such a pace. Yet it is an entirely natural consequence of the policy advanced and sponsored by the Russian state of historical amnesia.
George Will, Wash. Post
The British government says the Royal Navy strike group's 26,000-milecruise is "the UK's most ambitious deployment for two decades." The group, which...
Ian Jack, Guardian
n the 30 years after the end of the second world war, many British cities embarked on the wholesale destruction of their history. Residential streets were out and tower blocks were in, and cars had always to be accommodated. The dense, extravagant, smoke-stained fabric of the Victorian city came down in clouds of dust. It was often calculated that the country had knowingly obliterated more of its historic buildings in the 1950s and 60s than the Luftwaffe's bombs had managed in wartime. Читать дальше...
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera
The pessimistic, optimistic and realistic scenarios for a divided nation.
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Salam Zidane, Al Monitor
Western oil companies have started to pull out of central and southern Iraq and are being replaced by Chinese companies following terrorist attacks against facilities and reports of extortion from tribes, militias and bureaucratic officials in state institutions.
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker
On Sunday, July 11th, the world took note of a historic event in Cuba, as thousands of citizens took to the streets to protest against the government. Many shouted "Patria y Vida!"—Fatherland and Life—the title of a banned but extremely popular rap song that riffs on a slogan coined by the late Fidel Castro: "Fatherland or Death." Many also shouted "Libertad!"—Freedom—and similar phrases that...
Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review
Primary elections in Chile over the weekend brought a sigh of relief to those in Latin America anxious about growing polarization in their countries. Many observers have feared that the crises roiling the region will prompt voters to flock to the extremes, on both the right and left, and create further instability and uncertainty. Those concerns were heightened after Peru's first-round presidential election, featuring 18 candidates, catapulted the far-right and far-left candidates into a tense runoff... Читать дальше...
James Lamond, CEPA
Last week, Angela Merkel came to Washington for what is likely her final visit to the White House as Chancellor of Germany. This was a historic, valedictory moment by any measure. After all, Chancellor Merkel is modern Germany's longest-serving head of government, other than Helmut Kohl, not to mention the first woman, the first east German, and the first Ph.D. scientist to hold the position.
Claudia Tenney, Nat'l Interest
When it comes to the noble fight for freedom against repression, the United States must always be on the side of freedom.
R. Zaretsky, LA Books
JUST AS MOST Americans surely know the name of Marjorie Taylor Greene, few know the name of Vladimir Jankélévitch. This may well be true even of Jankélévitch's fellow French, given the challenges of his writing and the attention-grabbing childishness of Greene's antics. Yet last month saw a strange convergence between their words and worlds — a convergence that reminds us that if we are careless about the former, it is curtains for the latter.
Daniel Kochis, RCWorld
In Europe, the Biden administration's mantra has been "America is back." But given Wednesday's U.S.-German Nord Stream II agreement, a more accurate and honest slogan might be "America is backing away."
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