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[Ticker] Ukraine bans two BBC journalists
Ukraine Wednesday banned two BBC reporters – Steve Rosenberg and Emma Wells – from entering the country, by adding them to a blacklist of Russian media. Officials described them as a “threat to national interests”. The BBC called it a “shameful attack on media freedom … completely inappropriate and...
Rivals pummel Trump on foreign policy
Is Donald Trump, Manhattan real estate mogul and reality television star, really fit to be commander in chief? That question was a focal point of Wednesday night’s Republican debate, in which Trump’s rivals aggressively questioned the wisdom of handing control over America’s nuclear arsenal to the bombastic businessman and...
EU splits in Russian media war
Even as the EU mobilizes to fight Russian propaganda, European governments are fighting each other over the best way to go about it. A new effort by Brussels to monitor and respond to the perceived bias of Kremlin-controlled media such as Russia 24 or Sputnik has exposed familiar fissures on the Continent. As the Russia media task force known as...
Trump takes on the world
Donald Trump can’t explain the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah. He has confused the Kurds with the Quds Force. And he’s said he gets military advice from television talk shows. But he did know enough to negotiate a killer deal for a new golf club and resort in Dubai. Trump’s Republican rivals are primed to pounce on the...
Ukraine’s Humanitarian Crisis: Pyschosocial Dimension
This piece is part of a series of articles about Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis triggered by the on-going war with Russia-backed rebels in the East of the country. In countries like Ukraine – where the population has not experienced war for many years and suddenly finds itself in the midst of bloodshed – when people talk about humanitarian...
Pacifism is anachronistic today | Corriere del Ticino – Switzerland
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Why Putinism will survive Putin
As the Ukraine crisis settles into what appears to be a long stalemate, perhaps it is time to consider the future of Russian recalcitrance to the West — and who and what may follow in the footsteps of the main author of this recalcitrance, Vladimir Putin. Russia plainly needed someone like Putin at this point in its history. But did it also need...
The trouble with Finland’s treble coalition
HELSINKI — There was a coup in Finland earlier this month. A media coup, that is. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä announced, on the eve of parliament’s new term, that he would open up one of his homes to Syrian refugees. Since Sipilä remains modest, quiet and a rather unknown quantity to many Finns, it was something of a surprise to see him...
Spare a thought for Hungary
The feverish rancor and self-loathing among Europeans over the migrant crisis should alert us to a potential catastrophe that would eclipse even the Syrian boat people’s suffering: the danger of instability within Europe itself. Under constant pressure from recurrent crises — the great recession, Ukraine, Greece, Islamist terror — the...
Why Merkel changed her mind
BERLIN — Angela Merkel’s abrupt decision to reinstate controls on Germany’s border with Austria followed a hectic weekend during which the chancellor faced intense pressure from state and local officials expected to house and feed the growing wave of asylum seekers heading to the country. Their message to the German leader: genug,...
