Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
In Defense of Angela Merkel
The advantage of the notorious cover of Der Spiegel that showed Angela Merkel in front of the Acropolis surrounded by Nazi officers is that it finally poses, in a way that cannot be dodged, the question of Germanophobia in Europe. This has dragged on for quite some time. There were the demonstrations in Cyprus in March 2013, with the banners...
US and Europe’s Economic and Security Threats: US Leadership is Vital to Investigate Prince Michael von Liechtenstein, Iran, Austria, Croatia, Montenegro and the Balkans
The current war in Ukraine and the Balkan wars of the 90s could have been avoided if principled leaders in the West had focused on building the vital foundation of the rule of law and independent judiciaries at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The lives of hundreds of millions of people in Eastern Europe could have been more prosperous...
Greek PM Tsipras Says Europe Union Is Desired
(Adds progress of talks in paragraph 8) By Costas Pitas ATHENS, March 28 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday that he sought no rift with Europe after his cash-strapped country submitted a list of reforms to its lenders in a bid to secure much-needed funds. Tsipras’s leftist government …read more...
Ukraine: What’s the Role of Religion in Post-Maidan Milieu?
During a recent trip to Kiev, I was struck by mementoes placed in and around Kiev’s Maidan square. The plaques featured individual photo portraits of fallen martyrs — the so-called “Heavenly Hundred” who had sacrificed their lives during violent protests against the unpopular government of Viktor Yanukovych. What...
Time for America to Pivot to a 21st Century Foreign Policy
Nothing illustrates the time warp that has gripped America’s foreign policy today better than two events that took place a few days ago, one in Europe and the other in Asia. The first was The U.S. Army’s announcement that a convoy of American armored-vehicles would soon drive 1,100 miles across Europe, to demonstrate to the Russians...
The Retreatniks
The new talking point for the Republican Party — actually, it’s an old talking point in expensive new clothing — is “America is in retreat.” That’s the title of a recent book by Bret Stephens, a Wall Street Journal columnist who believes that he’s discovered a virus of “neo-isolationism”...
Heartbreaking Stories Emerge As Germanwings Plane Crash Victims Identified
A day after a Germanwings jet plummeted from the sky and crashed in the French Alps en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, heartbreaking details emerged about the 150 people on board, all of whom are presumed dead. Germanwings on Wednesday confirmed many of the passengers’ nationalities — including 72 Germans and 35...
Russia and North Korea Play Nice: Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian Dance with Kim Jong-un
Russia and North Korea make up the latest international odd couple. President Vladimir Putin reached out to one of the poorest and least predictable states on earth. So far the new Moscow-Pyongyang axis matters little. But Russia demonstrated that it can make Washington pay for confronting Moscow over Ukraine. The Democratic People’s...
Putin Is a Soviet Leader for the 21st Century
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin is known for his love of Russian history. Like many in this country, he knows it is full of errors and crimes — especially during the last 100 years. However, he is interested in viewing those crimes not from the perspective of society, but from the vantage point of the Kremlin. “The greatest...
The United States Could Learn from Its British Ally
In the wake of the global recession, beginning with the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the British government of Prime Minister David Cameron took a different approach from the U.S. governments of George W. Bush and Barack Obama–eschewing massive government stimuli (that is, profligate spending) for the economy and instead focused on...
