The seminar that included participants
from Syria, Yemen, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Algeria and
Turkey ended with an eight-point statement to combat hate speech and
promote actions to further ethics, good governance and self-regulation.
Director of Media Unlimited in Lebanon
It takes a strong state, not (to paraphrase Hillary
Clinton) a democratic village, to aggressively fight climate change.
This is the inconvenient message emerging in the wake of the Xi-Obama
deal on global warming announced in Beijing this week.
Both leaders will pursue executive action to fulfill their pledges. As
Kerry Brown writes, Xi's decision is binding within China because a long
process of consultation and consensus building within the Communist
Party stands behind it. What Obama can do is up for grabs. No sooner did
the pledge escape his lips than the incoming Republican majority
leaders in the U.S. Congress make their own pledge to block Obama by any
means necessary.
In The WorldPost this week, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim writes
that the landmark Xi-Obama agreement is not only good for the
environment, but also for the economy. Environmentalist Bill McKibben
parses out "what the deal is, and what it isn't."
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Editor-in-chief, THEWORLDPOST
The annual "base" budget of the Pentagon is half a
trillion dollars. That's the money that the Pentagon gets if it fights
no wars.
Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy
The administration is desperate to find a balance:
air strikes but no (or few) boots on the ground, attacks on ISIS but no
inadvertent bolstering of the Assad regime, assembling a coalition of
Arab states against ISIS but trying to prevent some of these states from
funding extremist factions on the ground, and so on.
Director, Foreign Policy In Focus
The sooner Congress passes the Pentagon
budget for 2015, or at least another continuing resolution, the sooner
the president will receive the money. And in fighting terrorism, sooner
is often better than later.
Foreign Policy consultant, observer of Congress, New Yorker.
Despite the importance of the 24
November deadline in the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1
countries, most likely, the negotiations will neither collapse nor
culminate with the desired agreement by that date.
Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat
How do we break the mind-forged bars of fear that
presently keep us on the treadmill of war, annihilating our
Constitution, eliminating our civil liberties, and dismissing any hope
for a domestic economy in which everyone has an opportunity to survive?
Policy Director, Center for Food Safety
It was a night I'll remember. I liked
Tuhin and their brother-in-law, and my last visit reassured me why I
chose to maintain a relationship with the Jamans despite the community's
negativity towards them. I had developed a brotherly relationship with
the boys, I saw their mother as my own mother, and after my in-laws'
house, the Jamans' was where I felt most at home when I visited
Portsmouth.
Deputy editor of 5Pillarz
The latest American war was launched as a
humanitarian mission. Within weeks, however, a full-scale bombing
campaign was underway against IS across Iraq and Syria with its own
"coalition of the willing" and 1,600 U.S. military personnel on the
ground. Slippery slope? It was Teflon-coated.
Author of "Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent" and "We Meant Well"
The world is at a tipping point. Twenty-five years
after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ensuing rise of China and
other emerging economies, fragile institutions -- the Asia Pacific
Economic Community summit taking place in Beijing and the G-20 in a few
days in Brisbane -- are trying to hold the links of peace and prosperity
together.
Editor-in-chief, THEWORLDPOST
Two new American generals have been
summoned to oversee military training efforts in Iraq. Each will, in due
course, be called upon to testify before Congress as to the progress
they are making in their mission. Neither will earn an additional star
if he reports back that his charges are militarily incapable of
achieving the optimistic objectives set forth by the Obama
administration. Congress can anticipate that each of these men, and any
others they call upon to testify, will provide them with the sort of pat
answers one has come to expect from such hearings. But void of
meaningful political change in both Iraq and within the political
leadership of the "Free Syrian Army," there will be no cause in either
of those countries worthy of the sacrifice of the men America plans to
train to fight in the spring offensive of 2015.
Author, 'Dangerous Ground'
The Republican-dominated Congress
intends to rob Obama of the means to achieve a legacy, which Obama plans
to weave through the nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic of
Iran.
Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat
You can call it a "wave," a "thumpin',"
or a "shellacking," but whatever term that the pundits and politicians
use, it's quite clear that the Republican Party made a loud statement on
Election Night.
Foreign Policy consultant, observer of Congress, New Yorker.
Few issues require as urgent attention as America's
ISIS strategy. America's multi-year strategy against ISIS lies on the
cusp of collapse. The Obama Administration needs to understand that its
train-and-equip program is simply too piecemeal and too slow. To remain
viable, moderate Syrian rebels need weapons now.
Senior political adviser and government relations director, Syrian American Council in Washington
The diffusion risk and unprecedented economic and
military capabilities ISIS possesses should compel US policymakers to
devise a new approach to combat the threat it poses.
MPhil student, University of Oxford
Congratulations Republicans, you've won
control of Congress. Now it's time to put down the talking points, stop
your OCD obsession with ObamaCare and ...
Forbes Education Columnist; Author, 'How to Talk American'; Director, 'Crotty's Kids'; Co-founder, 'Monk Magazine'
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