Category: Blogs

Russia’s Arctic ‘sea grab’

By Fred Weir, the Christian Science Monitor

From Fred Weir, the Christian Science Monitor:  Russia is expected within months to claim to the United Nations its right to annex about 380,000 square miles of the Arctic.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 14

By NATO

From Ataturk to Erdogan, reshaping Turkey

By Soner Cagaptay, the Washington Post

Russia and Georgia still locked in frozen conflict

By Daniel McLaughlin, the Irish Times

From Daniel McLaughlin, the Irish Times:  Three years on, the heat of war has given way to an ice age in relations between Georgia and Russia.

Sarkozy: France to stay to the end in Libya

By the AP

From the AP:  French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country will stick with the international campaign against Libya’s longtime leader until the end.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 13

By NATO

JFK’s Berlin blunder

By George Will, the Washington Post

From George Will, the Washington Post:  Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete.

Abbas tells US lawmakers: NATO role in Palestinian state

By Ma'an

From Ma’an:  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told visiting US Congressmen on Thursday that the security of the future Palestinian state will be handed to NATO under US command, his adviser said Friday.