Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Will Bill Clinton Apologize in Srebrenica?
Photo Credit: article.wn.com It was as much a forward looking vision as looking straight into the failures of the past when then-President Bill Clinton apologized to the people of Rwanda for not doing enough to stop the genocide. The US has had a more direct role in helping end the open conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1995. The US and...
Germany’s Economy Is Doing Just Fine Amid This Whole Greek Crisis
NEW YORK — Germany can breathe a little easier over the Greek debt crisis.Standard & Poor’s affirmed the country’s AAA credit rating on Friday and called its outlook stable.”In our view, Germany has a highly diversified and competitive economy with a demonstrated ability to absorb large economic and financial...
What You Need to Know About the Coming Deal With Iran
A deal to roll back and constrain Iran’s nuclear program may come this week. Here is what you need to know about this historic agreement and its global implications. On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of going on NPR’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, who had some very important questions to ask about the Iran negotiations currently...
Call for Sanity on Sixtieth Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto
This post originally appeared on Foreign Policy in Focus. It was exactly 60 years ago that Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein gathered together with a group of leading intellectuals in London to draft and sign a manifesto in which they denounced the dangerous drive toward war between the world’s Communist and anti-Communist factions. The...
Interview with Kiev International Democracy Institute Director and Ukraine expert, Sergiy Taran
Sergiy Taran is the Director of the Kiev-based International Democracy Institute think tank, and the head of the Board of the Center of Sociological and Political Researches “Sotsiovimir”. Taran is also an activist and political scientist specializing in post-Communist Ukrainian politics. His opinions on Ukrainian politics have...
Negotiators Say Iran Nuclear Deal Close As Another Deadline Nears
By Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA, July 9 (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers were close to an historic nuclear agreement on Thursday that could resolve a more than 12-year dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, but they remained deadlocked on the issue of Iranian arms and missile trade. Over the past two weeks, Iran,...
If Greece Takes On a New Outlook, So Will Europe
PARIS — Greece is in a dramatic condition and the situation will only deteriorate further if the country were to end up defaulting on its debts — or even leaving the eurozone altogether. Emerging from the current crisis requires first and foremost that a complete change of outlook take root in Greece itself. First, the Greek leaders...
Russia Woos China Ahead Of BRICS Summit
By Darya Korsunskaya, Denis Pinchuk and Lidia Kelly UFA, Russia, July 8 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government courted Beijing on Wednesday before a BRICS summit, playing down a stock market plunge in China and proposing better terms for investors from Beijing. Meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Russian...
Iran Says It Made New Proposals In Nuclear Talks, West Unimpressed
By Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA, July 8 (Reuters) – Iran has offered “constructive solutions” to resolve disputes in nuclear talks with six major powers, the Iranian Students news agency ISNA reported on Wednesday, but Western officials suggested they had heard nothing new from Tehran. Iran and the powers are in...
Ukraine’s First President Blasts Putin as Well as Western Indifference
My first trip to Ukraine was in early 1992, six months after independence was declared. During that visit, I interviewed many people but the highlight was my interview with Leonid Kravchuk, the country’s first president. Ever since, and despite the country’s struggles, I have kept my affection for Ukraine and its people. Along with my...
