November 2011
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Irony
A member of Iran’s Basij plays the René Magritte card at the British embassy, Tehran, November 29, 2011.
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Two Paths in the World, One Straight and One...
London
William Hague is a conservative foreign minister. He is an ardent supporter of Israel and a devoted promoter of Britain’s economic interests in the world, especially its petroleum industry.
How does he put those principles into practice? By taking an oblique approach. He has led the way in denouncing Israel for its expansion of illegal settlements beyond the country’s legal pre-1967...
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A Blue Tide Washes Over Europe
On Sunday, Nov. 20, after Spain’s national-election votes were counted, the last major patch of red disappeared from the European map. For the first time in modern history every major capital in the continent, from Lisbon to Helsinki, is now home to a conservative government.
Spain’s national election has been fought at the peak of a monetary crisis that has already tossed Greek prime minister...
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This is Where the Euro Crisis Becomes a Political...
We have now entered a very dangerous place, here in Europe, where the economic and monetary crisis is triggering a widespread crisis of politics and citizenship. Until this week, the debt emergency had brought everyone closer together. Now it will drive the continent apart.
It is easy to confuse the euro zone, the 17-country bloc that has shared the euro as its currency since 1999, with the...
