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EU, Serbia Hit Out At Albania-Kosovo 'Single President' Idea
The European Union has warned Albania against "interference" in neighboring countries and Serbian officials accused Tirana of wanting to build a "Greater Albania," after the Albanian prime minister said his country and Kosovo could one day have a single president.
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Abandoning the Kurds: What the Turkish Invasion Means for Syria
By invading Afrin, one of the last unscathed regions in Syria, Turkey is trying to prevent the creation of a Kurdish state. The U.S. is looking on powerlessly while Russia is rubbing its hands in glee. Ultimately, the true winner might be Bashar Assad. By Christian Esch, Maximilian Popp, Christoph Reuter, Christoph Scheuermann.
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It’s time we saw economic sanctions for what they really are – war crimes
Saddam Hussein and his senior lieutenants were rightly executed for their crimes, but the foreign politicians and officials who were responsible for the sanctions regime that killed so many deserved to stand beside them in the dock. By Patrick Cockburn.
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When Washington Assured Russia NATO Would Not Expand
How America’s failure to honor a 1990 commitment led to many of today’s global crises. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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Geography Now! North Korea (DPRK)
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Syria war, Sochi peace
In a well choreographed Sochi summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin defines a peaceful future for Syria after the liberation of the country from militants. By Pepe Escobar.
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Peter Frankopan - The silk roads
British historian Peter Frankopan, author of the bestseller "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" paints an unexpected portrait of our Western civilization and the way we perceive our position in the world: old Europe is convinced to be the best, most prosperous and safest region. Europeans think that they have a good position in the actual world, absolutely denying the new world order that is currently happening.
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AP Interview: Serbia's leader vows to lead nation into EU
Serbia's president is promising to lead the Balkan nation into the European Union and says the fact that Russia is arming the Serbian military doesn't threaten that goal.
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In Ukraine, the US Trains an Army in the West to Fight in the East
For more than two years, some 300 American soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous partner military in western Ukraine.
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China sees new world order with oil benchmark backed by gold
Yuan-denominated contract will let exporters circumvent US dollar
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How India and China Have Come to the Brink Over a Remote Mountain Pass
The two nuclear powers are fighting over a border, but their battle is really over the shape of Asia’s future. By Steven Lee Myers, Ellen Barry and Max Fisher.
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Hamburg taught the world that the U.S. no longer matters
The G20 summit showed that the new Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy actually means “America Alone”
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Tensions Rising in Balkans as Hopes for EU Future Fade
Fourteen years after being told they had a future in the European Union, countries in the Western Balkans are losing hope. Meanwhile, Turkish and Russian influence in the region is on the rise. So too is the nationalist rhetoric of old. By Walter Mayr and Jan Puhl.
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There is No Other Way with Pakistan
In the midst of Trump administration developing its policies on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the experts in Washington, are divided. The key question seems to be how to make Pakistan cease its support to the Haqqani Network and other militant groups that are destabilizing the region, especially Afghanistan… By Hussain Nadim.
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Present at the Destruction: How Rex Tillerson Is Wrecking the State Department
I worked in Foggy Bottom for 6 years. I’ve never seen anything like this.
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The ‘Global Order’ Myth
Teary-eyed nostalgia as cover for U.S. hegemony. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Svengali of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency, Is Dead, but the Evil Lives On
If ever there was a man who displayed on his face the evil on his mind, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski… By John Helmer in Moscow.
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State of Ruin: Tales From Venezuela's Collapse
Eight local photographers reflect on the images that have moved them most
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Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies at 89
Brzezinski was a Polish-born American who served in both the Carter and Lyndon Johnson administrations.
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America’s Misadventures in the Middle East
It’s time for a fundamental reexamination of the U.S. role in the region. By Chas Freeman.
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