Destroying al Qaeda Is Not an Option (Yet)
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
If the world's most notorious network goes down, terrorism will get a whole lot messier.
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Is Kiva really that controversial?
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Sunday, the New York Times published an article exposing problems with the wildly popular microfinance organization Kiva , a person-to-person lending site whose virtues Oprah Winfrey and Nicholas Kristof have extolled. Most people thought Kiva works like this: Entrepreneurs in poor countries explain their need for a small loan on the site. Then, donors select a project they support, give an amount...
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Ahmadinejad to Obama: 'Abandon Israel and we'll talk'
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
At a press conference in Istanbul on Monday night, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spurned the outstretched hand of American President Barack Obama, telling Obama that he would have to choose between Iran and Israel. [Ahmadinejad] told a press conference in Istanbul that Obama had failed to deliver his promise of change in US foreign policy and said he had to choose between Israel and
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Calm Down, Chávez
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
War-mongering Venezuela is stirring up trouble down south again. But will he really go to war with Colombia this time around?
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How Russian nukes power America
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares," could easily be turned into, "And they shall dismantle their nuclear warheads into enriched uranium for nuclear power plants." The New York Times reports 10 percent of electricity in the United States is generated from old nuclear bombs. For comparison, hydropower accounts for 6 percent and solar, biomass, wind and geothermal...
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Ex-KGB predictor of doom finds friends in U.S. Tea Party Movement
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Russian analyst and ex-KGB operative Igor Panarin wants the U.S. to enjoy its last eight months. Because after that, the world's sole superpower will be embroiled in a civil war that will destroy it. This message has found an audience in the radical right wing Tea Party movement. Mass immigration , economic decline, racial tensions and moral degradation will spark the war that leads to this civil...
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Briefing Book: Iran's Sanctions
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
What could sanctions against Iran really do?
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Risk to aid workers goes up in 2009
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
The world is less safer for aid workers, access to needy communities in conflict is on the decline, and aid is increasingly tied to military or other strategic objectives. These are among the gloomy conclusions of Development Assistance Research Associates (DARA), an aid watchdog, as it releases its 2009 Humanitarian Responsiveness Index today. The index is meant to hold donor countries accountable...
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The Wall Street Journal and the case of the not-so-mysterious mosque
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
This Wall Street Journal article is trying really hard to find something sinister in the story of a recently constructed mosque in Nicaragua. The piece leads by reporting that the "ever-present Managua rumor mill" is suggesting that the Iranian government may have paid for it, since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a close ally of President Daniel Ortega. On the other hand, no one is able...
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Europe After the Berlin Wall: 4 Surprises
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
For Europe the effects of the Berlin Wall's collapse were almost as surprising as the fall itself. Here are 4 of the unexpected consequences that the end of the Soviet Union had for Europe -- ones even the experts didn't see coming.
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Saudi Arabia cracks down on Houthis, magicians
FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saudi Arabia's assault on the Yemeni Houthi rebels along its southern border appears to be reaching a conclusion , according to anonymous Saudi officials. According to the invaluable Yemen blog Waq al-Waq, however, we should expect a tactical pause to this conflict rather than a resolution. The Saudi war on magicians, however, continues unabated -- and the war against the al-Houthis appears to be...
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Yes Obama, We Want Your Troops
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
But, says Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, only if they come with more than the good intentions of the last eight years.
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Please Send More Than Troops
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
If the window closes to fix Afghanistan's government, more boots on the ground won't matter.
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Gingrich's overblown Berlin Wall argument
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
On first glance, New Gingrich's editorial describing Obama's decision not to attend the anniversary of the Berlin Wall a "tragedy" (more here ) seems like simple concern-trolling: The message of human dignity that led to the toppling of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago is a true message of hope rooted in the spiritual nature of man and the freedom to know God. And so it is a true shame that...
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When Obama Goes to Beijing
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Can the president pull a Cairo-speech moment in China?