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“The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order”

by Henry Kissinger

New York (USA) | 4 April 2020
The surreal atmosphere of the Covid-19 pandemic calls to mind how I felt as a young man in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Now, as in late 1944, there is a sense of inchoate danger, aimed not at any particular person, but striking randomly and with devastation. But there is an important difference between that faraway time and ours. American endurance then was fortified by an ultimate national purpose. Now, in a divided country, efficient and farsighted government (...)

«The World Must Stop Assad»

by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Ankara (Turkey) | 11 September 2018
Across Turkey’s southern border, Bashar Assad’s criminal regime has for seven years targeted Syria’s citizens with arbitrary arrests, systematic torture, summary executions, barrel bombs, and chemical and conventional weapons. As a result of the Syrian civil war, which the United Nations Human Rights Council calls “the worst man-made disaster since World War II,” millions of innocent people have become refugees or been internally displaced.
Turkey has gone to extraordinary lengths to alleviate (...)

Trump’s “Forgotten Men and Women” Include Prisoners

by Jared Kushner

24 April 2018
The facts about America’s prison system are startling. The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population, but roughly 25% of the world’s prisoners. Federal and state prisons hold some 1.5 million inmates, and 6.2 million people are in local jails, on parole or on probation. Of the 650,000 people who leave prison every year, two-thirds will commit a new crime within three years.
By reforming federal prisons, Congress has the opportunity to help give former inmates a second chance to become successful, (...)

Stop Assad Now—Or Expect Years of War

by John McCain

New York (USA) | 5 October 2016
‘They make a desert and call it peace,” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, quoting an enemy of Rome about its brutal conquests. The same could be said today of Bashar Assad and his ally Russian President Vladimir Putin in Syria.
At this moment, Syrian and Russian forces, together with Iranian and Hezbollah militia fighters, are preparing to finish their siege of Aleppo. The 275,000 people who reportedly remain in the city are being told to flee. Thousands will do so, choosing to become (...)

A Path Out of the Middle East Collapse

by Henry Kissinger

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 17 October 2015
The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s strategic framework had barely begun when the region’s geopolitical framework collapsed. Russia’s unilateral military action in Syria is the latest symptom of the disintegration of the American role in stabilizing the Middle East order that emerged from the Arab- Israeli war of 1973.
In the aftermath of that conflict, Egypt abandoned its military ties with the (...)

Column against Russia by Tom Malinowski

by Tom Malinowski

18 May 2014
Behind Putin’s Cynicism and Hypocrisy
The Kremlin’s ruler wants to extend to neighboring countries the tyranny he imposes on his own people.
You can usually figure what Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing and why by noting the actions and values he falsely projects onto others.
Over the past several weeks, for example, he has accused the Ukrainian government of stripping autonomy from Ukraine’s eastern regions, while moving to end local elections in Russia.
He has claimed U.S. (...)

Wall Street Journal Interview With Bashar al-Assad

by Bashar al-Assad

Damascus (Syria) | 31 January 2011
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who inherited a regime that has held power for four decades, said he will push for more political reforms in his country, in a sign of how Egypt’s violent revolt is forcing leaders across the region to rethink their approaches.
In a rare interview, Mr. Assad told The Wall Street Journal that the protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen are ushering in a "new era" in the Middle East, and that Arab rulers would need to do more to accommodate their people’s rising (...)

For Global Finance, Global Regulation

by Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy

10 December 2009
Proposals that deserve consideration include taxes on financial transactions and 2009 bank bonuses.

Oil Prices Need Government Supervision

by Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy

8 July 2009
Producers and consumers benefit from stability

“Bonfire of Pieties”

by Amir Taheri

1 March 2006
The media made news with the headlines about the rallies caused by the publication of cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed. But, do these rallies represent the Muslim world?
The “machinery of anger” was started by the Muslim Brothers who urged their followers to go out to the street. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, one of the leaders of Muslim Brothers made a fatwa in an Al Jazeera program. Quickly, the rival organizations of Muslim Brothers, like Hizb ut-Tahrir, followed the same path not to be left (...)

“Lighten up, fellow Muslims”

by Irshad Manji

1 March 2006
In the world economic forum held in January, I noticed something revealing. In a session about the US religious right-wing, a cartoonist showed a cartoon featuring Pat Robertson and everybody in the hall laughed. Among those who laughed, there was a figure from the British Muslim community who immediately stopped laughing when a cartoon of a Muslim religious man was shown. Since this happened, there has been a ferocious fight between the European Union and the Muslim world as a result of (...)

“Munich”

by Bret Stephens

24 January 2006
Steven Spielberg has assured that his film Munich is not an attack on Israel. So why is his movie raising such hackles among pro-Israelis?
Maybe it has something to do with Steven Spielberg’s choice of the screenwriter Tony Kushner. Kushner is an author who is against the existence of Israel. He has stated that Israel wants to destroy the Palestinian identity and has demanded that Ariel Sharon be accused of war crimes.
Maybe it has something to do with the curious obsession of the (...)

“Right Islam versus wrong Islam”

by Abdurrahman Wahid

19 January 2006
According to recent information, Bin Laden got from a wrongly oriented Saudi religious man an edict authorizing him to use the nuclear weapon against the United States. With this, nothing can’t stop those who launched the September 11, 2001 attacks if they have the chance of multiplying a thousand times the number of deaths. Imagine the impact the explosion of an atomic bomb could have on New York, London, Paris, Sydney or Los Angeles, or worse, two or three bombs! Modern civilizations rest (...)

“Condi’s European torture”

by Paul Gigot

13 January 2006
What a show this week during Condoleezza Rice’s trip to Europe seeing people outraged because of the fact that the CIA might have been able to lock terrorists in European jails! If the Secretary of State had not been diplomatic, she would have cancelled her trip categorically and announced that she would only return when the politicians of the continent were willing to behave as adults.
This is part of the European obsessions with regard to the imminent arrival of fascism to the United (...)

“Our Troops Must Stay”

by Joseph I. Lieberman

12 January 2006
I’ve just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the last 17 months and I have verified the progress achieved in that country, progress that has nothing to do with the model made by Sadaam Hussein’s dictatorship. Progress is even noticed in the Sunni triangle. Life is better in Iraq and there’s a strong economic development. The true war in Iraq is that between 27 million Iraqis against 10,000 terrorists that want Sadaam Hussein back in power or are Al Qaeda members. 10,000 terrorists who (...)

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