24/03/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Trump, Terrorism, and the Politics of Witch Hunts
It's ironic that the most powerful man on earth would protest that he's the subject of a "witch hunt," especially given his enthusiasm for bombing and torturing people.
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17/02/2017 | Frente Externo
Killer Presidents
From Duterte to Trump, a new crop of populist leaders are reviving a tried and true method of demonstrating leadership — killing people.
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07/05/2016 | En Parrilla
Making China Great Again
If the U.S. and China think they can grow at each other's expense, they're snookering themselves.
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25/03/2016 | Frente Externo
Cuba: Hope and Change?
Club Med playground for the rich or isolated Communist backwater: can Cuba find a third path?
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29/02/2016 | Frente Externo
Poland’s Tea Party Movement – OpEd
On a rainy day in April 1990, I journeyed to the outskirts of Warsaw to one of those functional Communist-era apartment building complexes to meet with Antoni Macierewicz. The opposition leader’s apartment contrasted sharply with its grim institutional surroundings. It was an aristocratic enclave full of books, antiques, and prints on the wall. Macierewicz himself exuded an Old World kind of charm that Polish intellectuals worked so hard to preserve during difficult times.
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25/09/2015 | Frente Externo
What Happened to Brazil?
Latin America's largest country once looked ascendant. Now it's been laid low by widespread violence, structural racism, endemic corruption, and external economic shocks.
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24/10/2014 | Frente Externo
The Sum of Our Fears
What we see on our screens has primed us to make the obvious mistake of worrying overmuch about improbable threats and worrying undermuch about the more probable ones.
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31/07/2014 | En Parrilla
Is Obama Really Adrift in the World?
Four myths American exceptionalists peddle about the U.S. president and America's role in the world.
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26/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
MH17: Cold War Replay?
The last time the U.S. accused Russia of downing a civilian airliner, nuclear war nearly broke out
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19/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mowing the Lawn in Gaza
Israel believes it can bomb Gazans into changing their interests. How long will Obama support this delusion?
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10/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is Japan’s Peace Constitution Dead?
Despite its peace constitution, Japan boasts one of the largest militaries in the world.
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24/03/2014 | Frente Externo
If I Didn’t Have a Hammer
U.S. foreign policy is anything but demilitarized. But where the Bush team saw every problem as a nail, the Obama team wields more than just a hammer.
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21/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - The Pentagon's Obesity Problem
America has a problem with portion control. U.S. restaurants serve enormous entrees, convenience stores sell “Big Gulp” cups of soda, and Americans routinely compete to see who can eat the most hot dogs or pizzas or chicken wings in ten minutes.
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02/02/2011 | Frente Externo
Egypt - Two Cheers for the Brotherhood
In the latest news out of Egypt, where people power is confronting regime rigidity, President-for-life Hosni Mubarak is doing what he can to maintain his perch. He has named a new cabinet, deployed more troops in the cities, and blocked al-Jazeera broadcasts. The opposition, meanwhile, hopes to bring a million people into Cairo's streets to give the regime a final boot.
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20/01/2011 | Frente Externo
Arab Democracy Now!
The campaign against dictatorship in the Arab world has brought together some strange bedfellows. The Bush administration's neoconservatives darkly dreamed of democracy promotion in the Middle East before the Iraq and Afghanistan quagmires became the stuff of nightmares.
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14/04/2010 | En Profundidad
The Really Really Long War
Let's imagine that the Cold War was a detour. The entire 20th century, in fact, was a detour. Since conflicts among the 20th-century ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism) cost humanity so dearly, it's hard to conceive of World War II and the clashes that followed as sideshows. And yet many people have begun to do just that.
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