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Two Ships, Four Generations: A Family’s Odyssey
The early twentieth century was an age of immigration — millions left Europe in despair, defeat or fear to make new lives in America. My family history is not much different from that of other immigrants, but with one big deviation: two generations arrived from Europe and two later generations returned! In the spring of 1915, my father and...
Russia Halts Gas Supply To Ukraine Amid Pricing Dispute
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian gas company Gazprom halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine on Wednesday after the collapse of pricing talks, company official said. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said that Russia halted the supply at 10 a.m. (0700 GMT, 3 a.m. EDT) because Ukraine didn’t make an advance payment for July’s delivery. “Gazprom is...
From Greece To France To China, Nationalism Is Back In A Big Way
WASHINGTON — In China, a military parade this year will commemorate not the triumph of communism, but, rather, the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Chinese nationalism (and historical hatred of Japan) will trump Marxist ideology. In France, right-wing ultra-nationalists support the referendum that Greek’s...
U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Works Globally To Fight Antismoking Measures
KIEV, Ukraine — A parliamentary hearing was convened here in March to consider an odd remnant of Ukraine’s corrupt, pre-revolutionary government.– This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website....
Let Greece Leave the Eurozone
In withdrawing from negotiations with Greece’s international creditors and holding a referendum on whether Greece should adopt the further austerity required by the lenders’ financial aid package, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras figuratively pulled out a gun and threatened to blow a hole in the life raft that was given to his...
Is the Cold War Coming Back? Hardly
With an aggressive Russian policy in Ukraine, Crimea and the Baltic States and Putin’s announcement that Russia would add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) to its nuclear arsenal, there is much talk — most recently by Secretary of State John Kerry — of the “new Cold War.” This ignores a simple...
Russia vs China: The Conflict in Washington Over Who Should Lead America’s Enemies List
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.comAmerica’s grand strategy, its long-term blueprint for advancing national interests and countering major adversaries, is in total disarray. Top officials lurch from crisis to crisis, improvising strategies as they go, but rarely pursuing a consistent set of policies. Some blame this indecisiveness on a lack...
Will a ‘Perfect Storm’ Sink Europe?
Dark clouds are lowering over Europe’s economic future, as three distinct tempests gather: the Greek crisis, Russia’s incursion in Ukraine and the rise of populist political parties. Though each poses a considerable threat, Europe, aided by the recent cyclical pickup, is in a position to address them individually, without risking more...
UN at 70, Ready to be Retired?
UN Photo At 50, the UN appeared to be facing a middle-age crisis. Then I was Foreign Minister of a re-emerging Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) with the opportunity to stand in and symbolize the survival of a country still seized by genocide and aggression and where many thought it would not survive the onslaught from outside and within. (See: 50...
The Euro in Flames
Game over. The euro as we know it is coming to an end. It is no longer clear whether we are talking about a proper monetary union or about a system of fixed exchange rates. This situation was to be anticipated. The different member countries no longer trust each other. It is impossible to build a monetary union when there are so many differences...
