Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- June 13, 2012



Can U.N. Monitors Help Forge Peace In Syria? -- Holly Yan, CNN

(CNN) -- In yet another attempt to help stop the relentless bloodshed in Syria, a group of U.N. monitors are on the ground to observe a so-called "cease-fire" that appears to be violated daily.

While opposition activists have reported some improvements thanks to the monitors' presence -- including a brief slowdown of shelling and the ability to retrieve bodies from streets without fear of government sniper attacks -- some say the mission will have little net effect, serving merely as proof that the international community is taking some sort of action.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Syria becoming wider global, regional proxy war -- Peter Apps, Reuters

Stay out of the Syrian morass
-- Daniel Pipes, Washington Times

Is Syria in a civil war? -- Joe Sterling, CNN

How Yemen became a controversial battleground against Al Qaeda -- Emily Alpert, L.A. Times

The Raids That Backfired: How the Russian Police Helped to Swell a Protest
-- Simon Shuster, Time

Italy Struggles to Break Out of Downward Spiral -- Hans-Jürgen Schlamp, Spiegel Online

Greece Votes Itself in the Foot -- Stathis N. Kalyvas, Foreign Policy

A Humanitarian Disaster Threatens To Unfold In Greece
-- Nicos Devletoglou, Forbes

Europe Unprepared as Euro Crisis Deepens -- Stefan Kaiser, Spiegel Online

12 Signs of the Europocalypse -- Douglas Rediker and David Gordon, Foreign Policy

End of the Honeymoon: Germans Increasingly Disillusioned with Obama -- Bruce Stokes, Spiegel Online

Drug Violence Marches North
-- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest

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