Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
How the Migrant Crisis Is Testing Europe’s Security Strategy
COPENHAGEN — Which battles should Europe pick? At least since the euro crisis, the quest for Europe’s survival has been mostly associated with monetary rather than military matters. But at the end of this week, European leaders will take the question more literally, as they convene for another summit, this time dedicated to security....
The Eastern European Women in the Race to Lead the UN
In my last blog, I announced the launch of the global SheUnited campaign to press the case that the United Nations should appoint its first women secretary-general when the post becomes vacant next year. The current Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has lent his own authority to calls for a woman to take the top job. The General Assembly has over...
Will the 13th Century Pax Mongolica Return With China’s New Silk Road?
LONDON — The Chinese are the most historically minded of peoples. In his conquest of power, Mao Zedong used military tactics derived from Sun Tzu, who lived around 500 BC; Confucianism, dating from around the same time, remains at the heart of China’s social thinking, despite Mao’s ruthless attempts to suppress it. So when...
EU Extends Sanctions Against Russia By 6 Months
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The European Union on Monday extended economic sanctions against Russia until January to keep pressure on Moscow over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, drawing a rebuke and a warning of retaliation from Russian officials. An EU statement said the decision was taken without debate by the bloc’s foreign ministers at a meeting...
Germany’s Leadership Role in Advancing Economic Freedom: Opportunity for All, Favoritism for None
Co-authored by Natasha Srdoc, co-founder, Adriatic Institute for Public Policy and International Leaders Summit, Becky Norton-Dunlop, vice president of The Heritage Foundation and former director of the White House Cabinet Office during President Ronald Reagan and Dr. Stefan Gehrold, head of European Office Brussels, Konrad Adenauer...
Why World Refugee Day is a Jewish Holiday
It is impossible to avoid the stories of massive human displacement from Burma, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Afghanistan, and hordes of boat migrants dying in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. However, if you want to avoid these unpleasant, disturbing stories, look no further than the Jewish press. There was a time when refugees were a...
Putin Warns West Not To Meddle In Russia’s Affairs
ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 19 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin boasted on Friday that Russia had found the “inner strength” to prevent sanctions causing a deep economic crisis, and told the West to stop using “the language of ultimatums.” Investment in Russia has slowed to a trickle, capital flight has risen and...
‘Super Indian’ Takes On The Romantic Stereotypes Of Native Americans
© Estate of Fritz ScholderIn 1969, a Minnesota-born artist by the name of Fritz Scholder painted a portrait he dubbed “Indian with Beer Can.” The image shows a stark figure in sunglasses and a cowboy hat, sitting with his arms crossed and teeth bared before a can of Coors. Unlike many studio paintings that came before it — the...
Why Putin’s War Talk Isn’t Fooling Anyone
MOSCOW — At the recent Army-2015 international military forum President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is prepared to deploy more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles. A year or more ago, such a statement would have had immediate repercussions on the market. The ruble would have lost value, investors would have abandoned...
Greece the IMF and Ukraine
Are you wondering why the IMF is standing by Ukraine against Ukraine’s creditors, while the IMF is refusing to extend even a smidgeon of an olive branch to Greece? Creditors have loaned Ukraine $70 billion dollars. To receive payment of $40 billion from the IMF, the IMF required Ukraine to convince its creditors to agree with a...
