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Predicting the Outcome of the Arab Spring3 comments

ottomansandzionists wrote 2 months ago: I am once again going to step away from Israel and Turkey because I cannot let Walter Laqueur’ … more →

Tags: Tunisia, Arab Spring, Egypt, Walter Laqueur, world affairs journal, Wishful Thinking, Nicholas Kristof, authoritarian backlash, ISLAMIST WINTER

U.S. leaders had better heed Israel's warnings on Iran

aurelius77 wrote 2 months ago: On the one hand, we cannot exclude the possibility that the senior Israeli officials briefing us are … more →

Tags: Iran, middle east, Israel, Politics, USA, War, Barack Obama, military, Benjamin Netanyahu

Get Kony! Get Assad! Get Busy Filming!

John McAndrew wrote 2 months ago: Roger Cohen wrote an excellent rumination in today’s NY Times on the whole Kony video and its … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, Human Rights, News, Opinion, kony, Invisible Children, Africa, LRA

Roger Cohen, the "Two Footballs", and False Dichotomies8 comments

Samir Chopra wrote 3 months ago: Over at the New York Times, Roger Cohen has an Op-Ed contrasting football and football. I mean, Asso … more →

Tags: General, Sports, New York Times, Soccer, Football, Chelsea, Manchester United

Politicising Communist crimes: inveterate canker 10 comments

inavukic wrote 3 months ago: Members of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia 1945 - Tito in the middle Two mont … more →

Tags: Croatia, european union, communist crimes, Mass Graves, Tomislav Karamarko, Josip Boljkovac, efraim zuroff, antifascists, Anto Nobilo

Obama's Angelic Doctrine Disarms Evil Enemies1 comment

kotzabasis wrote 3 months ago: I’m republishing the following piece for the readers of this new blog. By Con George-Kotzabasi … more →

Tags: Politics, nations, Islam, america, Israel, Diplomacy, The Beacon, Columnist, obama

Footnote: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Trees are Purple wrote 4 months ago: A recent piece by Roger Cohen of the NYT touches on a few questions raised in a previous post on the … more →

Tags: Footnote, History, Andrius Kubilius, Antony Polonsky, Hitler, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Tony Judt

Reflections on turning off and tuning out...

Shira wrote 4 months ago: We’re in the middle of vacation – Christmas/Chanukka/New Year’s – as you lik … more →

Tags: Reflections

Device addiction...

sambarratt wrote 4 months ago: Enjoyed this piece by NYT’s Roger Cohen on device addiction and how conversations are perpetua … more →

Tags: orta, blackberry

Writing Eulogies in Public

anti-climacus wrote 5 months ago:            How does the phrase go? ‘De mortuis nihil nisi bonum,’ I believe it is. As if I knew Lati … more →

Tags: eulogy, NYTimes, Hitchens

What Decline and Fall?

Ryan Young wrote 6 months ago: Roger Cohen’s column in today’s New York Times is titled “Decline and Fall.” … more →

Tags: Economics, Business Cycles, optimism, Pessimism, economic decline

Preliminary Libyan Scorecard: Acting Beyond the UN Mandate

deepaktripathi wrote 8 months ago: Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories, writes in a gue … more →

Tags: Comments, NATO, Libya, Qaddafi, Western World, UN Security Council, PeaceKeeping

Preliminary Libyan Scorecard: Acting Beyond the UN Mandate via Richard Falk

Diana Brydon wrote 8 months ago: Richard Falk is Research Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara             In Western … more →

Tags: Building Global Democracy, International & Global Law, Global Governance, Commentary, United Nations Security Council, Libya, United Nations, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO

Preliminary Libyan Scorecard: Acting Beyond the UN Mandate21 comments

Richard Falk wrote 8 months ago:             In Western circles of influential opinion, the outcome of the NATO intervention in Libya … more →

Tags: Commentary, Global Governance, International & Global Law, United Nations, World Politics, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, New York Times

If any fingers need to be pointed, they should be at the Palestinian leadership

michaelblackburnsr wrote 9 months ago: From a letter to the NYTIMES byMichael Berenhaus  Michael wrote this responseto a NY Times columnist … more →

Tags: Israel, Ny Times Columnist, suicide bombings, Oslo Accords, infant mortality

Taming the Bullies of Bosnia

Bosnian Genocide wrote 9 months ago: By Roger Cohen 17 December 1995. THE HELICOPTER LANDS near the summit of Mount Igman, just outside S … more →

Tags: genocide, Banja Luka, bosnian genocide, Concentration Camps in Bosnia, Dayton Peace Agreement, ethnic cleansing, genocide in bosnia, Radovan Karadžić, ratko mladic

Interventionist Foreign Policy Saves Lives, Stops Wars

Bosnian Genocide wrote 9 months ago: Another excellent column by Roger Cohen, entitled “Score One for Interventionism,” appea … more →

Tags: genocide, bosnian genocide, ethnic cleansing, genocide in bosnia, Kosovo, NATO, Sarajevo, New York Times, Bombing of Serbia

Obama's Angelic Doctrine Disarms Evil Foes

kotzabasis wrote 9 months ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis Reply to: The Mellow Doctrine by Roger Cohen global.nytimes.com May 03, 200 … more →

Tags: Politics, obama, War, Diplomacy, america, Complacency, no felicity, angelic doctrine, disarms

Age of Outrage

idubrawsky wrote 9 months ago: Normally I don’t really like Roger Cohen’s op-eds in the New York Times (and the Times h … more →

Tags: Politics, Thoughts, Economic Policy, Policy, New York Times, Economy, taxes, Op-Ed, term limits


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