Russia

February 3 - The Reaction Inside Jordan to the Burning Alive of Their Captive Pilot; How the Jordanian Pilot's Death Impacts the King's Rule; Putin's Gangster State

January 13 - Police Officers Charged with Murder; The Fall of Putin and Who or What Might Replace Him; Long Hours, No Vacations, Yet When We Are Idle, We Are the Most Creative

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  • January 1 - A New Year's Retrospective on Foreign Policy Issues in 2014 and the International Landscape Ahead in 2015

    December 22 - North Korea Loses the Internet as the U.N. Security Council Debates Their Human Rights; Having Looted the Russian Econmoy Putin Does Not Have a Clue How to Fix It; More Americans Are Turned Off From Voting As More Money Pours into Politics

    December 16 - The Pakistan Taliban Retaliate by Slaughtering Children; The Ruble in Freefall as Obama Is Poised to Sign off on Increased Sanctions; The Continuing Hype about the so-Called Islamic State That Has Nothing to Do with Islam

    December 14 - Why the Democrats Caved and How the Republicans Got Away with Killing Financial Reform; "How the U.S. Created the Islamic State"; "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?"

    December 3 - A Fourth Netanyahu Government in Israel; How Falling Oil Prices are Impacting Russia and Putin's Rule; Yet Another Failure to Indict a White Police Officer in the Killing of a Black Man

    November 26 - Separate Narratives in a Divided St. Louis, Missouri; Will We Take Putin's Bait?; Republican Plans for a Permanent $400 Billion Tax Break for Big Corporations

    November 16 - Russia's Growing Isolation; U.S. Strategy in Iraq Driven by Domestic Politics; Outrage Intensifies in Mexico

    November 11 - The Apec Summit and the New Trade Pact; Growing Ties Between China and Russia; A Highly Decorated Veteran on Veterans Day