Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba Exploit the U.S. Border Crisis
Latin America’s authoritarians are cooperating to increase illegal immigration to the United States.
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Tyrants and expendable migrants: Dictators play with people’s lives to gain leverage
Illegal immigration through the U.S.-Mexican border is at an all-time high, straining public resources and fueling political tension in the United States. Much of what moves migrants to undertake the...
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The Three Amigos Summit
President Biden doesn’t intend to defend America’s border
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The problem with peacekeeping
The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally
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Two More Reasons to Worry About China
Keep an eye on China’s relationship with Cuba, for starters.
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The return of the Monroe Doctrine
Sanders aside, Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader
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We’ll always have Paris
Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...
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Fine Tuning the Cuba Embargo
This week, President Donald Trump will reportedly announce the re-imposit...
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Cuba, Iran’s island in the sun
The Obama administration thinks Iran's influe...
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Bystanders to genocide
It’s surprising how time slips away: Five years ago next month, President Obama proclaimed a “responsibility to act” when American “interests and values are at stake.&rdqu...
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The Pope of Montecristo
So Pope Francis, having delivered himself of the usual Jesuit diatribe against capitalism and warned us all about rising global temperatures, has arrived in Cuba. That unhappy island inhabi...
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When Israel Helped Yemen’s Shiites
Yemen’s Houthi rebels accuse Israel of standing behind the Saudi-led military campaign launched against t...
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The Big Story — the Global War — Goes Mostly Unreported
The “news” is resolutely out of context. A subject about which virtually nothing is known–the mystery of the missing airplane–gets saturation “coverage,”...
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Saudi Arabia Accuses 8 of Aiding and Financing al Qaeda
The Specialized Criminal Court on State Security and Terrorism in Riyadh charged eight defendants today with provi...
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Remembering The Invasion of Grenada 30 Years On
One night in late October, 1983, I listened to a BBC short wave broadcast reporting that the United States was about to invade Grenada. I chuckled, said to myself, “Crazy Brits,...
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Meanwhile, UNESCO Chief Is Romancing Cuban Education
When UNESCO — the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization — admitted the Palestinian Authority as a full member last year, the decision triggered a U.S. law that...
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The New War Against America
Last January, President Obama went over to the Pentagon to announce deep cuts in defense. He took the occasion to proclaim: “Even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of...
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Hiding Cuba’s Crimes Behind Gay Rights Lies
On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys...
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Why Ozzie Matters
Ozzie Guillén, manager of the newly re-minted Miami Marlins, has earned himself a five-game suspension by declaring his affection for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in...
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Six-Party Celebration?
According to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Those familiar with North Korea’s recent history are forgiven...