Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Why Gorbachev Feels Betrayed By The Post-Cold War West
On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, remains a hero in the West. But the West is no longer in favor with Gorbachev. Already in 2005 when I sat down with him in Moscow to discuss the 20th anniversary of his reforms that ultimately led to the dissolution of the USSR, Gorbachev expressed...
25 Years Later, Another Wall Is Rising Between the West and Russia
VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA — I was 13 when I watched TV pictures of the Berlin Wall crumbling on the euphoric days of November 1989. I was a boy living far away, in the Soviet Far East, but the historic significance of the moment was not lost on me — it was about much more than just East and West Germany reunifying. It was about the Cold War...
A New Balance of Power in Asia: Japan and U.S.; China and Russia; India and ASEAN
BEIJING — As the Beijing summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum convenes, there have appeared some new developments in the Asia-Pacific strategic landscape as were mirrored in the international situation and China’s peaceful development this year. And China seems to have gained greater strategic initiative. The new developments are...
Ukraine Says Tank Column, Artillery Systems And Trucks Have Crossed Into Eastern Ukraine From Russia
KIEV, Nov 7 (Reuters) – A column of 32 tanks, 16 howitzer artillery systems and trucks carrying ammunition and fighters has crossed into eastern Ukraine from Russia, the Kiev military said on Friday. “The deployment continues of military equipment and Russian mercenaries to the front lines,” spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in a...
The American People Have Punished Obama For His Weakness
The Republican-dominated Congress intends to rob Obama of the means to achieve a legacy, which Obama plans to weave through the nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Republican Congress wants to freeze Barack Obama’s historical legacy at the moment he had threatened, pledged, and then backtracked in the 11th hour, when...
CNN Wins Award For Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Coverage
You might not have liked CNN’s Malaysia Airlines plane coverage this year, but the network just brought home an award for it. CNN received the award for best “Live Television Journalism” for its coverage of the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 at the 2014 Association for International Broadcasting awards in London Wednesday night....
The End of the Big Oil and Gas Game Has Come
Co-authored with Grant Cooke Sheikh Ahmed-Zaki Yamani said in 2000, “The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil.” The former Saudi oil minister was arguably the world’s foremost expert on the oil industry at that time. However, then he...
U.S. Money-Laundering Probe Draws In Putin’s Inner Circle: Report
Nov 6 (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have launched a money-laundering investigation into a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York is...
Kissinger: Putin Is Not Stalin
The growing conflict between the West and Russia today is not the same as that during the Cold War, Henry Kissinger told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York this week at a symposium marking the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nevertheless, the former secretary of state, who at 91 remains a strong and influential voice in...
Standing Together for Crimean Tartars
By Rabbi Marc Schneier and Mohammed Khan As an American Jewish and an American Muslim leader dedicated to the principle that Muslims and Jews should stand up for each other whenever the rights of members of either community are violated anywhere in the world, we are speaking out together against the ever-intensifying campaign of intimidation and...
