The European Union seems unable to decide how to deal with dictators
IF EVER there was a moment for Europe to come up with new policies for dealing with despots, it is now. The muscular American approach to effecting regime change has few takers these days. The club-of-autocrats approach, exemplified by China’s see-no-evil relations with Myanmar [...]

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Across Switzerland, anti-foreigner and anti-Islamic attitudes have become so pervasive on the streets, in politics and within governmental institutions that the United Nations, European Union, Amnesty International and Switzerland’s own Federal Commission Against Racism have expressed alarm in recent months.
The theme is dominating the campaign for national parliamentary elections Oct. 21 and is crystallized in [...]

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Emerging voice of mainstream Islam
BBC News, UK - 10 hours ago
As well as Muslim terrorism, they include the lack of democracy in Muslim countries and the often violent treatment of Christian minorities, …
Muslim leaders call for peace Telegraph.co.uk
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Hamas: Coming to a School Board Near You?
Pajamas Media, CA - 4 hours ago
Are American schools susceptible [...]

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The country’s rulers care too much for their own welfare, and too little about the rural peasants
Not for the first time, Hu Jintao, the party’s boss and China’s president, rightly picks out two big problems: the widening gap between China’s mostly urban rich and its mostly rural poor, and the party’s lack of “internal democracy”—comrade-speak [...]

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The question regarding a military conflict with Iran doesn’t seem to be if, but when and how? FSM Contributing Editor Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.) has some keen insights as to how America could defeat Iran – with a little bit of help from its leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
For months, I have argued in this [...]

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Tensions between the US and Turkey are growing as Ankara considers attacking PKK bases in northern Iraq and a congressional committee in Washington pushes forward a resolution calling the World War I massacre of Armenians “genocide.” German commentators are concerned at the deteriorating relations between the NATO allies. more…

Pursuing the PKK: Turkey Prepares for Incursions [...]

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McKiernan noted that a “resurgent Russia” provides some uncertainty. But he emphasized that he sees Russia as a coalition partner, not an adversary.
“I want to engage the Russian military; I want to train with the Russian military. I want to have personal contacts with their leaders,” McKiernan said. “I want my units in Germany and [...]

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