News Abroad

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• 2/18/19
  

  Proof that Bombs Can Stop Genocide

  by Rafael Medoff

  If President Roosevelt had heeded the pleas that were made in 1944 to use force against the machinery of genocide, many lives could have been saved.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  An Open Letter to Turksih President Erdogan

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• 2/12/19
  

  Alexander the Great and "The Republic of Northern Macedonia"

  by Robert Garland

  How Alexander the Great helped created a naming controversy 2,500 years later that was just resolved. 

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• 2/10/19
  

  The Polar Bear Expedition: When America Intervened in Russian Affairs

  by James Carl Nelson

  As allegations and investigations swirl around the questions of Russian intervention in our 2016 elections, it’s worth a look back one hundred years to our own intervention in Russia. 

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• 2/10/19
  

  The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective

  by Lauren Jannette

  Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations. 

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• 2/7/19
  

  Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament―Unless They’re Pushed to Do So

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although the rulers of nuclear-armed nations are usually eager to foster nuclear buildups, substantial public pressure can secure their acceptance of nuclear disarmament.    

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• 2/5/19
  

  Don’t Invade Venezuela

  by Alan McPherson

  Contrary to what most believe, a military intervention in South America would be unprecedented

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• 2/3/19
  

  Why Elliott Abrams is the Right Man for the Job in Venezuela

  by Teresa Meade

  His career stretches back through some of the most sordid instances of US intervention and brutality.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Combatting Crimes against History

  by Antoon De Baets

  Those who died while exercising their right to history are testimony to the fact that the historian’s craft is vulnerable, that its integrity needs constant vigilance and protection, that the defence of its basic principles is a duty for all, always, and everywhere.

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• 1/27/19
  

  What Do the Russians Think About Trump, Putin, and America?

  by Walter Moss

  Most Americans know little about Russia and Russians except that they might have interfered in our 2016 elections.

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• 1/20/10
  

  The Cost of Corruption in the Balkans

  by Abrana Xharra and Alon Ben-Meir

  And how it's impeding European Union membership. 

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• 1/10/19
  

  Trump’s Bullshit-Savant Moment on Afghanistan

  by Benjamin Hopkins

  What has been lost in the consternation provoked by the President’s remarks is the fundamental question which remains unanswered – namely, what the hell is the US doing in Afghanistan?

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• 12/30/2018
  

  A Century Ago We Came Up with an Imaginative Way of Dealing with Refugees

  by Michael Goodyear

  Why can’t we do it again?

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• 1/16/19
  

  The Defect that Brexit and MAGA Share

  by Jonathan Fennell

  After yesterday's Brexit defeat, the lessons that Brexiteers and Trump could learn from World War 2.

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• 12-17-2018
  

  What Could Be the Consequence of Trump’s Decision to Intervene in the Arrest of that Chinese National in Canada?

  by Tom Clifford

  We can’t be sure and that’s what’s scary.

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• 12/23/2018
  

  We’ve Helped Starving People Before. We Need to Do It Now.

  by William Lambers

  "Across 46 countries, 83 million people require emergency food assistance in 2019, 75% more than in 2015." -- Study

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• 12/14/2018
  

  One Thing We Know for Sure About Brexit Is the Effect It’s Having on British Political Identity

  by Luke Reader

  The firmest indicator of political identity is whether one supports leaving or remaining in the EU.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  We Need to Revive the Nuclear Disarmament Movement Now

  by Lawrence Wittner

  A practical proposal.

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• 12/2/18
  

  What Has Wheaties – Yes, the Breakfast Cereal – Got to Do with Nuclear Disarmament?

  by William Lambers

  It is the breakfast of champions and nuclear disarmament. 

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• 11/20/18
  

  Trump Has Achieved the Nearly Impossible: He's Brought China and Japan Together

  by Tom Clifford

  How he did it.