World News Update: 5.5.2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Controlling Syrian Conflict
“The Syrian Opposition’s Coming Challenges” Yezid Sayigh — Carnegie Middle East Center, April 29, 2016
“John Kerry Works to Restore Truce in Syria” Matthew Lee — TIME, May 2, 2016
“The Observer View on Barack Obama’s Role in Bringing Peace to Syria” Observer Editorial — The Guardian, April 30, 2016
‘Deja Vu’ in Iraq
“How the ‘Green Zone’ Helped Destroy Iraq” Emma Sky — POLITICO, May 1, 2016
“The War Between the Islamic State’s Enemies” Peter Schwartzstein — Foreign Policy, May 1, 2016
“Obama’s Gradual Iraq War” The Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2016
Workers’ Party Congress in North Korea
“Once in a Lifetime” The Economist, April 30, 2016
“It’s Party Time in North Korea. Workers’ Party Party Time” Anna Fifield — The Washington Post, May 2, 2016
“What to Expect from North Korea’s Party Congress: Millennials, Maybe Some ‘Dead’ Men, But No HBO” Julie Makinen — Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2016
TTIP Negotiations
“The Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership as a Foreign Policy Tool” Maurice R. Greenberg — Council on Foreign Relations, April 28, 2016
“TTP, TTIP: Eliminating Nations, Turning over the World Economy to Mega-Corporations. Obama’s Secret Trade Deals vs. Trump and Bernie” Jon Rappoport — Global Research, May 2, 2016
“TTIP Leaked Documents Could Spell the End of Controversial Trade Deal, Say Campaigners” Andrew Griffin — The Independent, May 2, 2016
Brazil’s Economic Decline
“Road to Rio: Brazil Offers Syrian Refugees A New Home, But The Economy Puts Their Latin American Future in Question” Lydia Tomkiw — International Business Times, May 2, 2016
“With Brazil in Turmoil, Rio Counts Down to Olympics” Rebecca R. Ruiz — The New York Times, April 27, 2016
Threats to Israel
“The Shifting Nature of Threats to Israel in its Neighborhood” Brian Reeves — BROOKINGS, May 2, 2016
China’s NGO Law
“China Tightens Its Grip on Foreign NGOs” James Griffiths and Steven Jiang — CNN, April 29, 2016
“China Passes Law Putting Foreign NGOs Under Stricter Police Control” Anthony Kuhn — NPR, April 28, 2016
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