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Here’s The Real Reason The Price Of Crude Oil Is So Strong
This month’s decoupling of oil from other risk assets, could be foretelling skittishness over recent events in Iran and Syria (where a growing chorus is calling for action against Assad’s brutality),...
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Authoritarian Rulers Get Subtler: Putin, Chavez, China’s Chiefs – WSJ.com
WILLIAM J. DOBSON: A handful of retrograde, old-school dictatorships have managed to limp into the 21st century. They are the North Koreas, Turkmenistans and Equatorial Guineas of the world. But they...
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Sarah Palin: ‘We’re bombing Syria … and I’m the idiot?’| Washington Times
Jessica Chasmar at The Washington Times: “So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?” Mrs. Palin asked on Friday. “President Obama wants America involved in Syria’s civil...
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Desperately seeking moderate Syrian rebels | Threat Matrix
By Lisa Lundquist: Following the news that the Obama administration, in a sudden about-face, is asking Congress for $500 million to train and equip “vetted” members of the “moderate” Syrian opposition,...
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Iran Didn’t Create ISIS. We Did | The Diplomat
From Ben Reynolds: ….No one is innocent in the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, but Iran is not primarily responsible for the current state of affairs. The U.S. and its allies destabilized Iraq and Syria...
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What If Everything You Know About Terrorism Is Wrong? | The XX Committee
Great insight into the murky relationship between various government intelligence services and terrorist groups. This goes far beyond provision of weapons and money and includes founding and direction...
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“We should be ashamed”…Isis could have been ‘nipped in the bud’ four years ago
The rise of extremist terror group Islamic State (Isis) could have been avoided if the UK began attacks on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013, according to two former defence chiefs. “It’s a...
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Sen. John McCain on Russia’s airstrikes in Syria
Shades of Churchill in 1938: Winston Churchill, denouncing the Munich Agreement in the House of Commons, declared: “We have suffered a total and unmitigated defeat … you will find that in a period of...
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Hilary Benn’s speech on Syria moved MPs to tears and applause
Hilary Benn, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary’s speech in support of air strikes in Syria reduced MPs to tears and drew applause from members on all sides of the House of Commons. Filed under: Middle...
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