Will Afghanistan be 'mission impossible'? | Toronto Star
September 27, 2009Peter Bergen, senior fellow at the New American Foundation, believes if NATO countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan it won't have a major military ...
View ArticleNo Exit for Mexican Leader from Ill-conceived War on Drugs
December 21, 2009Jorge CastanedaDecember 21, 2009Three years ago this month, Mexican President Felipe Calderón donned military fatigues and declared a full-scale war on drugs, ordering the army into...
View ArticleGreek Debt Crisis Tests EU Solidarity | Toronto Star
March 4, 2010"If you look at the history of the EU, it progresses through crisis," says Steven Hill, author of Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in...Feed: In the News...
View ArticleAnother Test of US-Israeli Relations | Toronto Star
March 16, 2010"(President Barack) Obama drew a line in the sand, but it's a line that's constantly eroded with water," said Daniel Levy of the Washington-based New America Foundation think-tank....
View ArticleIsrael's America Problem | Toronto Star
March 20, 2010"If you're Obama you can do one of three things," says Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation, a member of the Israeli delegation at the 2001 Taba peace talks. "You can escalate the...
View ArticleObama Asks UN to Unite Around Mideast Peace | Toronto Star
September 23, 2010“What we're given is the familiar old ingredients that have conspicuously failed until now,” said Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation. ...Feed: In the News ItemsOriginal article
View ArticleAfghans, Living on the Knife's Edge in Pakistan | Toronto Star
October 24, 2010Writing in The New Yorker, author Steve Coll mused that if he could start life over as a political science doctoral candidate, he would research the ...Feed: In the News ItemsOriginal...
View ArticleTales of the Internet's Past and Future | Toronto Star
November 26, 2010... (an average of more than 11 new films every day),” writes media analyst and Columbia University law professor Tim Wu in his new book, The Master Switch. ...Feed: In the News...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of the Web | Toronto Star
January 29, 2011... Not a good time then for a book titled The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of the Internet. But, says author Evgeny Morozov wearily, that’s exactly why it needed to be written....
View ArticleArab Awakening: What Next? | Toronto Star
February 25, 2011“I think there is every reason to believe that the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty will hold,” says Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation, a former adviser to Israel's Mideast peace...
View ArticleParag Khanna: Are We Nearing a New Middle Ages? | Toronto Star
April 1, 2011Parag Khanna argues in his new book that the world has entered a new Middle Ages which could give rise to a kind of enlightened colonialism. first thing to know about Parag Khanna is that,...
View ArticleObama Faces Stumbling Blocks as Arab Revolution Rolls On | Toronto Star
April 5, 2011“The sentiment I hear is that foreign intervention isn't good, but (Moammar) Gadhafi staying in power and creating a precedent for crushing democratic movements would be worse,” says Amjad...
View ArticleChina Returns Press Card to Star Writer, Gives Stern Warning | Toronto Star
April 12, 2011... in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when we were frequently detained and threatened with visa non-renewal if we did not behave,” says Rebecca Mackinnon, a former CNN journalist, who is...
View ArticleOn Bin Laden, the Medium May Be the Message | Toronto Star
May 20, 2011Bin Laden on a LazyBoy watching footage clearly was intended to undercut his image,” said New American Foundation's Peter Bergen, who has been chronicling bin Laden's life since...
View ArticleSince 9/11: A New World Order | Toronto Star
July 16, 201111 was to spur a very dramatic increase in the footprint of the American empire, contributing to a very serious case of 'imperial overstretch,'” says Peter Beinart of the New America...
View ArticleDid Al Qaeda Die with Bin Laden? | Toronto Star
August 21, 2011The revelations support the opinion of bin Laden chronicler, Peter Bergen, who has written that bin Laden ran Al Qaeda like a dictatorship. In a recent TIME magazine article he notes...
View ArticleThe Sexual Fantasies Of The Working Woman | Toronto Star
September 15, 2012It is probably not coincidence that, as more books like The Richer Sex, by Liza Mundy, and Hanna Rosin's The End of Men and a spate of articles on choosing not to be married or the...
View ArticleOsama Bin Laden: How The New Film 'Zero Dark Thirty' Has Reignited The...
December 11, 2012On Tuesday, Peter Bergen, one of two authors who have written about the CIA's hunt, lamented that the movie gives a “misleading picture” that coercive techniques were essential to the...
View ArticleWomen Made Gains In 2012 But Don't Declare Victory Just Yet | Toronto Star
December 26, 2012Liza Mundy coined the word “breadwomen” in The Richer Sex: How the new Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming, Sex, Love and Family. In this country, The Canadian Press had...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Opposition Parties In Talks With Taliban, Other Militants |...
March 18, 2013“It's no secret that almost nobody wants any version of the Karzai clan to remain in power,” said Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain who...
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