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Jun 13, 2013

NATO Official: Turkish Authorities Should Recognize the Demands of the People

By Sinem Cengiz, Today's Zaman

From Sinem Cengiz, Today’s Zaman:  ‘Turkish protests do not have direct impact on NATO alliance’ NATO officials also had comments about the ongoing Gezi Park demonstrations, which began at the end of last month in Turkey in protest of government plans for the redevelopment of a park in İstanbul’s Taksim Square, when asked their view. […]

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2013

EU Refuses to Cooperate on Security

By Judy Dempsey, New York Times

From Judy Dempsey, New York Times:  Germany and most other E.U. countries still do not think and act strategically when it comes to strengthening Europe’s foreign and security policy.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jun 12, 2013

International Response to Egypt’s NGO Trial

By Amira Mikhail

On June 4, Egypt’s courts concluded the year and a half long sentence of 43 workers in 4 non-governmental organizations based in Cairo. Sentences varied from 1 to 5 years in prison as well as the confiscation of the NGO’s assets. The defendants were accused of illegally receiving foreign funds for their respective work in […]

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2013

NATO Proposes 2 Joint Missile Defense Centers with Russia, but Separate Chains of Command

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

From Alexander Vershbow, NATO:  Our goal in NATO remains a combined missile defence architecture that can protect both the Alliance and Russia.

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2013

NATO Missile Defense is ‘True Transatlantic Teamwork’

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

From Alexander Vershbow, NATO:  NATO takes collective defence seriously.  Missile threats to our Alliance territory and populations are real and growing. Our defence against these threats must be real, too, and able to adapt to the threat in the future. And that’s the approach we are taking.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2013

The 26th Anniversary of Reagan’s ‘Tear Down this Wall’ Speech in Berlin (Video)

By Ronald Reagan, Reagan Foundation

From Ronald Reagan, Reagan Foundation:  We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control. Are these the beginnings of profound changes in […]

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 12, 2013

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Karim Mezran

“Libya is finished.” “It is a failed state.” “There is not much more we can do.” These are just some of the comments I heard in the course of my visit last week to Tripoli and its surrounding environs. There is indeed widespread pessimism about the future of a viable Libyan state. It seems few […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2013

Can the West Afford Not to Act in Syria?

By Ulrich Speck

The civil war in Syria reveals many uncomfortable truths about today’s geopolitics. One of them is that the EU has made little progress on a common foreign policy in the last two decades.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2013

Lithuania Sees Dependence on Gazprom as Main Threat to Energy Security

By Baltic News Service

From Baltic News Service: Dependence on the Russian gas concern Gazprom poses the biggest threat to Lithuania’s energy security, and the natural gas sector is the most vulnerable energy sector

Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2013

Through the PRISM of Hypocrisy

By Julian Lindley-French

A young British soldier is mown down in a London street and then hacked to death.  Mosques and Islamic centers across England are attacked.  The liberal elite in London mouth their concerns and trot out the usual reality-defying, free speech quenching politically correct nonsense.  And then it is alleged that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s […]

Intelligence Security & Defense
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