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the United States and its allies is a hollow façade. We are on track to repeat all the follies of the tragic period between the two world wars. At Versailles and through the1920s, the West fanned the flames of German rage by treating the defeated enemy with open contempt and by erecting a new European or
that Israel's intransigence on settlements, and the U.S. government's failure to do anything about it, was undermining U.S. influence elsewhere in the Middle East. But nothing really changes, and Netanyahu and his allies are well aware of this. In 2010, they humiliated Vice-President Joseph Biden by unveiling
as dead wrong. So, it turns out, was the Brotherhood itself. As Shadi Hamid writes in "Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East," the Islamist group had learned to thrive under decades of autocratic repression and was hopelessly unprepared to rule Egypt. But following the ov
lf-sustaining nation. Consider, by contrast, Italy's annexation of South Tyrol, a predominantly German-speaking region. The move was decided at the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I without consulting the population, which was 90% German-speaking. Yet today, South Tyrol enjoys extensive const
r backs covered in coming regional crises. The Israelis see the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia" as a mere cover story for abandoning them to the Middle East's tough security environment. Defense Minister Ya'alon even went as far as to publicly assess that President EFTA00662706 Obama's "image in the wor
, killed the deal and ruined his company. (Though it’s hard to feel too sorry for him-- he’s pictured in front of his house, a mansion that would put Versailles to shame. In this David-and-Goliath story, he’s a David from the 1 percent.) Bajwa sought $554 million plus punitive damages on trade secret misappr
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012039 →ounty entrepreneur<http://fw.to/aXv1QHI> [Farooq Bajwa] Farooq Bajwa By Andrew Khouri August 11, 2016 A federal jury decided Thursday that one of the Middle East’s most prominent banks did not commit fraud and steal technology from an Irvine firm that sued it for half a billion dollars in damages after their par
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Marc Rich
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Bill Clinton
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