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The EU’s Challenging and Gloomy Future Beyond Juncker
Jean Claude-Juncker’s tenure as President of the European Commission (EC) has been a memorable one. He has been captured on camera numerous times parading around drunk, thereby earning himself the nickname “Juncker the Drunker.” Despite his hilarity, his legacy is...
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The European Dream Transformed to Nightmare
Greece was to emerge from the crisis to become the poster-boy of the European Union. Exit from the crisis would be the master-stroke whereby everyone would understand what Europe was, would see that a nation was exiting the debt crisis...
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Trump’s Silent Supporters: Real, Shy, and Maybe Triumphant (Again)
It’s November 8, 2016, and celebrations are already underway at Hillary Clinton’s election night party in Manhattan. Earlier in the evening, the New York Times reported Clinton had an 85 percent chance of winning. Supporters gathered under the glass ceiling...
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Tajikistan Prison Riot
A prison riot in Tajikistan leaves scores dead and the government blames it on Islamic State. As the possibility of political transition grows imminent in this remote but strategic Central Asian state, the government will likely amp up the threat...
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Turkey-Cyprus Drilling Issue is Escalating Tension in the Mediterranean
Turkey has recently sent a drill ship (Fatih, “conqueror”), after announcing its willingness to conduct exploratory natural gas drilling, in an area of the Eastern Mediterranean that Cyprus considers to be part of its Exclusive Economic Zone. According to Cyprus...
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Trump Can Still Reform the Iran Deal and Prevent War
President Trump has fulfilled a campaign promise he made during the 2016 General Election by withdrawing the United States from Obama’s Iran Deal. His reasons for doing so are understandable. The Iran Deal was a small but significant step in...
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I Will Never See the World Again: a Message to the World from Ahmet Altan
You would be forgiven for thinking it was the plot of a classic Franz Kafka story. Ahmet Hüsrev Altan, a Turkish journalist, former editor (of Taraf) and novelist, is woken from sleep at 05.42 am by his doorbell ringing. In...
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Iran: Netanyahu’s All in Bet
In Haaretz, Chemi Shalev identifies Benjamin Netanyahu as the stalling engine of the Iran-US crisis. He would be the “prime suspect” in the event of war. In fact, if it was the hawks in his administration that led Trump toward...
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Something Has Changed: the New Western Order
The referendum on Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of national populism in Europe are a clear sign of mass discontent towards our current political system. But what is the ideology behind this system, how has it...