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As We See It

A Bad Agreement Turns 100

May 9, 2016

Sykes-Picot

The secret agreement that shaped the Middle East and set the stage for lethal instability turned 100 years old in May...

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The Storyteller Behind The President

May 6, 2016

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DEVASTATING profile of Ben Rhodes, a fiction-writer who became President Obama's "foreign policy guru", in charge of crafting the lies and narratives...

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Selective Amnesia

May 2, 2016

Yalta Conference

For seventy years, the lessons of World War II had endured and guided US foreign policy—but no longer...

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Gradually, Then Suddenly

May 1, 2016

Over the cliff

Venezuela's tragedy reminds us that because collapse happens "gradually then all of a sudden" a slow decline can mask the approach of the discontinuity...

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