Written by Alan Caruba - FactsNotFantasy.blogspot.com

The Korean War ended in a stalemate in 1953. Having begun on June 25, 1950 with the blessings of Joseph Stalin, an armistice agreement on July 27, 1953 left the peninsula divided between the Republic of South Korea and the Peoples Republic of North Korea. How long ago was that? Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
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Written by Henrik R. Clausen - EuropeNews.dk

The first hearing in Elisabeth’s case will take place in the court of Vienna on November 23rd, starting at 9:00 CET. In collaboration with EuropeNews and Tundra Tabloids, we will be live blogging the event from the morning, aiming to decipher exactly what is the offense Elisabeth is charged ... Read more: Coming To America! Preview the Shredding of US 1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech
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Written by George Friedman

Editor's note: This is the third installment in a series of special reports that Dr. Friedman will write over the next few weeks as he travels to Turkey, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Poland. In this series, he will share his observations of the geopolitical imperatives in each country and conclude ...
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Written by Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter
A referendum in Sudan scheduled for January 9, 2011 stands to determine no less than the creation of a new state. Southern Sudan, rich in oil and populated mainly by Christians and animists, will decide whether to split off from the primarily Muslim north, poor in oil and striving to impose shariyalaw ... Read more: Sudan on the Verge of Division? The Referendum, Oil, and Foreign Involvement
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Written by Henrik R. Clausen - EuropeNews.dk
In Denmark and elsewhere, there has been a lot of discussion about so-called 'ghetto areas', where out-of-control crime, unemployment and disrespect for the authorities makes for some interesting challenges. Unfortunately, we do not seem to quite understand the nature of the problems yet. This ...
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Written by George Friedman

A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we are visiting on this trip (Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland) occupy the borderland between Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. Roman Catholic Hapsburg Austria struggled with the Islamic ...
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Written by Gallia Lindenstrauss

INSS Insight No. 220
Turkey's National Security Council document, the 2010 “Red Book,” which maps the expected threats to Turkey in the coming years, includes a number of sections that are highly problematic for Israel. The document itself is classified, and therefore there are different versions ... Read more: Changes in the Turkish Threat Perception: Strategic Significance for Israel
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Written by George Friedman

I try to keep my writing impersonal. My ideas are my own, of course, but I prefer to keep myself out of it for three reasons. First, I’m far less interesting than my writings are. Second, the world is also far more interesting than my writings and me, and pretending otherwise is narcissism.
Finally, ...
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Written by Robert Ellis
“Turkey has declared on more than one occasion that if it has to make a choice between its accession to the EU and Cyprus, it will choose Cyprus”.
Martin Kettle's claimthat Turkey is "held hostage by the atavistic parochialism of a Greek Cypriot statelet of fewer than one million ... Read more: Turkey has only Itself to Blame if Shunned by the EU
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