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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 (...)

An Alternative to Imperialist Wars

War or Peace / War and Peace

by James Petras

Brussels (Belgium) | 2 December 2005
In a magistral contribution for the Axis for Peace conference 2005, Professor James Petras analyses the contradictions of the United-States’ imperialist system. He underlines the manipulation of the UN and International law by the great powers, describes the blind rush forward of civil militarists, neoconservatives and zionists. Far from sinking into pessimism, the famous American intellectual outlines the perspectives for an international popular resistance.

“Iran: restoring trust”

by Jack Straw, Javier Solana, Joschka Fischer, Philippe Douste-Blazy, Luis David Obando López

26 October 2005
All governments agree that it’s necessary to put an end to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. To respect the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is an obligation. Two years ago, Iran recognized before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it was creating the infrastructure for the uranium enrichment. Today, it still works on the development of ballistic missiles for nuclear weapons. This is the reason why it is believed the Iranian nuclear program has no pacific purposes. We (...)

“The Turtle Bay Tea Party”

by Claudia Rosett

6 July 2005
Since the moment the United States threatened with not giving more funds to the UN, Kofi Annan began to speak in favor of the reform. He already did it in 1997 and in 2002. Nowadays, Mr. Annan expresses his opinions in the media through articles written by his great team of public relations which is mainly paid by Americans contributors. Now, he says in the Washington Post he is responsible for the progress of the situation in Iraq after having said months ago that the war was “illegal” and (...)

“United We Stand”

by Kofi Annan

6 July 2005
We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Chart in 1945 in the middle of a huge debate on the “reform” of the organization. For 60 years, the Americans, conservative and liberals, have expected too much form the UN and those expectations have not been met.
In Washington, the debate has been focused in two documents: the report written by Newt Gingrich and George Mitchell on the reform of the UN and the UN Reform Act proposed by Henry J. Hyde, already (...)

“Asia’s Democratic Values”

by Francis Fukuyama

20 June 2005
When Suharto lies on its deathbed and its successor in Indonesia is visiting Washington, it is interesting to observe the changes in the Far East since 1967. That year, the United States fought in Viet Nam, China carried out its Cultural Revolution, Suharto ascended to power fighting against the communist guerrilla and the only democracy in the region was Japan. Nowadays, democracy has been widely expanded across that region, which also enjoys a great economic growth. That democratic (...)

“Bush country”

by Fouad Ajami

6 June 2005
Sometime ago, a Kuwaiti trader told me that George W. Bush has “created a tsunami in this region.” This man was tired of waiting for an internal reform, he wanted the situation to be changed and if foreign assistance was necessary, so be it. A Jordanian friend told me what was happening today in Lebanon was possible because demonstrators knew the United States would not allow a repression comparable to the one that took place in Hama, Syria. When I visited the Arab world I went to Bush (...)

“Our Insular Media”

by Claudia Rosett

20 May 2005
The retraction by Newsweek has reopened the debate on practices of the American press and its uses of news sources. This focus, however, blurs the true question: why did Muslims, offended by an American magazine’s reporting - true or false, react with riots that ended in bloodshed?
Before the Newsweek editor made his retraction, the publication of this article provoked street fighting that resulted in the deaths of 16 people in Afghanistan. That statement was weak consolation to the US (...)

“John Bolton vs. the Moral Cowards”

by Otto Reich

3 May 2005
The audiences of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Commission in relation to John Bolton’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to the UN allow to unmask the campaign driven to bring him into disrepute. These audiences also show the need to amend the confirmation process of the Senate’s nominations - an objective so much politicized nowadays that has departed away from its constitutional definition.
John Bolton is now charged with having blocked the career of an intelligence agent, whom we will call (...)