Category Archives: Foreign Policy

For Labor Day Weekend: A Look Back At Solidarity

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Lawrence Person

For Labor Day weekend, here’s a look back at the birth of Solidarity in Poland.

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Bottom Ranked Film on IMDB is a Turkish Government Propaganda Film

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Lawrence Person

I take a look at the Internet Movie Database Bottom 100 List from time to time. Recently I was surprised to see a film called Kod Adı: K.O.Z. shoot to the top (it’s currently ranked the third worst film ever … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 31, 2015

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Welcome to the final week of traditional summer. Of course, it used to be that everything (school, football, the new TV year, etc.) started after Labor Day Weekend, but that’s not the case any more… “it’s cute to pretend that … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 21, 2015

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Small LinkSwarm this time. “Hillary Clinton is the contemporary poster child for special privileges for the rich and powerful.” Latest Iran deal revelation: Iran gets to self-inspect their own nuclear site. But Kerry did get them to agree to pinky … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 14, 2015

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Austin had a very, very wet spring, but August is shaping up in normal fashion: Bone dry and hot as hell. Try to keep cool and enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm: “There is no real distinction between today’s Democrats and socialists.” … Continue reading →

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Greece: Dispatches from the Boned

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Lawrence Person

So I haven’t done a Greek update in a while, since after Greece caved into the inevitable (Newsflash: broke people generally do not have leverage over those lending them money), it was all over but the shouting. Now that Greece … Continue reading →

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Why Did Obama Back Jihadists in Syria?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Lawrence Person

This piece in Foreign Policy Journal is certainly eye-opening: In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for July 31, 2015

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Another month down! here’s one final LinkSwarm to finish off July: “Donations to the Clinton Foundation by Swiss bank UBS increased tenfold after Hillary Clinton intervened to settle a dispute with the IRS early in her tenure as secretary of … Continue reading →

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Turkey and the Islamic State: Enemies or Allies?

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Lawrence Person

So Turkey has evidently started bombing the Islamic State, but also started bombing the Kurds, our allies against the Islamic State (and Turkey’s restive minority). But via Jihad Watch comes word that Turkey has secretly been doing deals with the … Continue reading →

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Egypt Behind Sisi As Long As He’s Pounding The Ikhwan

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Lawrence Person

“The past two years have been the most violent and repressive in Egypt’s contemporary history.” True, but by and large the Egyptians themselves don’t seem to mind. Why? Yet despite this bleak security outlook, Egypt is more politically stable than … Continue reading →

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