Friday, December 19, 2014

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 19, 2014



The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror -- David Keyes, Daily Beast

Americans are giving in to North Korean blackmail—and it will only get worse.

If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom. It is to champion the idea that all men and women are endowed with certain unalienable rights—free to think our thoughts, speak our minds, associate with whom we want and express our feelings without fear that a tyrant will silence us. Slavery is not only the physical restraining of the body. It is also the imprisonment of the mind—the instinct to quiet one’s thoughts in the face of terror.

This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 19, 2014

Sony hack reveals Hollywood’s bitter civil war -- Neal Gabler, Reuters

North Korea Is Not Funny -- Adrian Hong, The Atlantic

Why Iran's Influence In Syria Is Likely To Outlive President Bashar Assad's Rule -- Alessandria Masi, IBTimes

Exclusive: Iran's support for Syria tested by oil price drop -- Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters

Turkey's emerging police state -- Sinem Adar, Al Jazeera

Chinese Agriculture Goes Global -- Loro Horta, Yale Global

Russia Seen from Within -- George Friedman, Startfor

Vladimir Putin in jeopardy on all sides as Russia’s economy stumbles -- John Lloyd, Reuters

US-Cuba thaw: Is Obama extending economic 'lifeline' to communist regime? -- Mark Trumbull, CSM

A Watershed Moment in U.S.-Cuba Relations -- Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

5 ways Cuba-US agreement will make waves -- Whitney Eulich, CSM

How Buffett, Soros and Other Billionaires Play Oil, Russia -- Emily Stewart, The Street

The reason oil could drop as low as $20 per barrel -- Anatole Kaletsky, Reuters

Global oil impact: Who's hurting, happy, hopeful -- Jonathan Fahey, AP

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