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Last time I discussed the hypocrisy of European democracies like France that supply advanced weaponry to Russia knowing they will be used to undermine democracy in its neighbouring states. But I want to go a step further and examine

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It’s worth remembering that International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March last, was for many years called International Working Women’s Day, and was for the longest time considered by many as a ‘red’ holiday, due to its status

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Winter has been particularly nasty this year throughout western Europe and much of North America, but is this just a cyclical aberration or a harbinger of winters yet to come? Sadly, there is mounting scientific evidence that shows this winter is not a one-off

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Last time I expressed my optimism that positive developments at the end of 2013 between Iran and the US Congress would carry over into this new year. But looking back a year ago, I was similarly optimistic in the wake of President Obama’s 2013 State of

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Previously I expressed some optimism that the positive developments at the end of 2013 involving the mutually beneficial agreement between Iran and the US Congress would carry over into 2014. Yet both at home and abroad, critics of President Obama’s decision

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While even President Obama’s most ardent supporters would be hard pressed to characterize 2013 as a year of great achievements, at the same time I wouldn’t be surprised if historians one day conclude that it contained some of his most significant

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Given the recent nuclear freeze agreement between the ‘E3+3’ and Iran, I want to pivot from my discussion from the Tea Party extremists here in the US to providing you with some background and analysis of this extremely significant nuclear proliferation

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Hot on the heels of America’s latest brush with defaulting on its debt, a war is being waged between pragmatic Republican business leaders and anti-government Tea Party ideologues for the soul of the Republican Party.

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Following the latest failed attempt to impose the will of the minority on the majority of American citizens, I think it’s worth pivoting from my discussion of Syria’s Islamic extremists to point out the many similarities that exist between them and

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Charles Laffiteau's Bigger Picture

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Since I’m getting married today, 1 August, I thought I’d take a temporary detour from my analysis of the Arab Spring’s ‘second wind’ to discuss the role Ireland, and a series of seemingly unconnected coincidences, played in bringing

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More than two years after the first Arab Spring demonstrations erupted in Tunisia, recent developments in Egypt appear to point to a new phase in the wave of popular discontent that has swept through the Middle East.

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Have you ever wondered whatever happened to Sarah Palin?

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Last month President Obama delivered the most important foreign policy speech of his second term. The address he delivered at Fort McNair’s National Defense University in Washington DC was significant because it outlined his broader vision for the major

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At first glance it seems it should not be too difficult for US President Barack Obama to decide to intervene on the side of the Syrian rebels. After all, at the root of the conflict is the desire of a substantial number of Syrian citizens for a more open

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