After Ukraine

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Gary Scarrabelotti

After Ukraine, upon which East European nation will the West next turn its back?

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A parable for our times

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Morocco Strett

Niki de Goodaboom, "Street Scene: Morocco".

“ … all things are done in parables: that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear and not understand.” (Mark 4, 11-12)

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Posted in Culture, International Relations, Iraq, Islam, Religion

Russia’s Ukraine gambit backfires

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But the bear will be back.

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Superpower befuddlement

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Regime change and popular elections in the Islamic world give rise only to new cycles of repression, not to new democracies. 

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Imagination meltdown

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The folly and indifference of empire.

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