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Making a Martyr of Morsi?
The Execution of Mohammad Morsi will have wide ranging domestic and international ramifications and going ahead with it could make a martyr of a man President Al-Sisi would rather forget. The coup d état in July 2013 in which General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, has seen a systematic reversion to authoritarian...
Exposing Russian Disinformation
Editor’s note: Ambassador John B. Emerson gave the opening remarks at “Exposing Russian Disinformation in the 21st Century,” a conference sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation on June 25, 2015 in Berlin. Emerson’s remarks have been shortened below....
Ukraine, China, ISIS Top Long List of Challenges for EU, NATO
The unity and strategic viability of the transatlantic alliance and the US major non-NATO democratic allies, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Israel, the Philippines, and others, will be severely tested in the years to come. As always, freedom is not free, and its price is constant vigilance.The United States and its allies face...
Youth Platform is Transforming Eastern Ukraine
“We brought down some Lenins in people’s heads,” says organizer Yuriy Didula Days after Ukrainian forces retook the city of Kramatorsk on July 5, 2014, Yuriy Didula and two colleagues from western Ukraine piled into a car and drove building materials into the city.”People in the east felt abandoned by the state,”...
Gay Ukrainians flee rebel east
Homosexual Ukrainians are being forced to flee the rebel east due to being fired from their jobs and harassment. …read more Source:...
Obama sheds cool style
Barack Obama has reached the stage where if he wants to break out in song publicly then he’s going to do it. ||| Washington – Barack Obama has reached the stage of his presidency where if he wants to break out in song publicly, as he did with “Amazing Grace” in a eulogy on Friday, then he’s going to do it. With a year-and-a-half...
From Dirty Dancing to downward dog?
A billionaire has grand plans to transform the hotel that inspired the iconic Patrick Swayze movie. ||| New York – The historic hotel in upstate New York that inspired the 1987 film Dirty Dancing will come to be known for its downward dog.An Indian billionaire is transforming Kutsher’s Country Club, once an all-inclusive getaway for...
Saudi Arabia’s Unlikely Flirtation with Russia and Israel
Saudi Arabia’s recent courtship with Russia and Israel should be understood as a failure of the United States government to assure Saudi Arabia of their security. For much of the last 35 years Saudi Arabia has looked to the United States as a beacon of security and a source of political clout. This relationship was born out of, and in...
Is Democracy in Retreat?
As part of the Millenium Project, 15 Global Challenges have been established to provide a framework to assess the global and local prospects for humanity. One of these urgent challenges is the retreat of democracy around the world as more nations roll back the hard fought democratic freedoms. After peaking in the late 1990s, democracy around the...
Why the West Should Give Ukraine’s New Spymaster a Chance
Late June in Kyiv can be beautiful. With clear skies, temperatures peaking in the high 70s, the natural beauty of the city and its citizens, it can be easy to forget that the country is at war. In part that is a result of the country’s success. A year ago, few would have predicted that the country’s armed forces would fight the...