Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 10, 2015



Simon Shuster, Time: Why Russia’s Probe Into the Nemtsov Murder Does Not Stack Up

Official suggestion that Boris Nemtsov was killed by Islamists seems the least plausible explanation

Who knew Russia had such crack detectives — not just fast in their investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov but practically clairvoyant. Within a day of the dissident’s killing on Feb. 27, they offered a bundle of possible motives, predictably ranging from a business dispute to a love affair gone wrong, but with two big surprises. For one, they ignored the possibility that Nemtsov’s conflict with the Kremlin had anything to do with the murder. And then there was the theory bizarre enough to make the victim’s friends do a double take: the sleuths suggested that some religious fanatic could have killed him for insulting Islam.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 10, 2015

Nemtsov's Brutal Murder Benefits the Kremlin -- Vladimir Ryzhkov, Moscow Times

The Kremlin's Nemtsov Murder Narrative Is Hanging By A Thread -- Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes

Why Are Foreign Fighters Joining ISIS? -- J.M. Berger & Jessica Stern, Defense One/The Atlantic

ISIS’ Plan to Take Its Caliphate Worldwide -- Nancy A Yousef, Daily Beast

Let Iraq Die: A Case for Partition -- Michael J. Totten, World Affairs

Boko Haram-Isis alliance is nothing but superficial propaganda -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

Nurturing Egypt’s Economic Transformation -- Mohamed A. El-Erian, Bloomberg

Nokia exit: Is China's 'golden age' of foreign investment over? -- Peter Ford, CSM

The Isolation of Donetsk: A Visit to Europe's Absurd New Border -- Christian Neef, Spiegel Online

How Ukraine Can Win -- XX Committee

SPIEGEL Interview with Greek Prime Minister Tsipras: 'We Don't Want to Go on Borrowing Forever' -- Interview Conducted By Manfred Ertel, Katrin Kuntz and Mathieu von Rohr, Spiegel Online

Obama's Wake-Up Call to Venezuela's Neighbors -- Bloomberg editorial

Venezuela's Minimum Wage Is Now $20 A Month; Congratulations To Bolivarian Socialism -- Tim Worstall, Forbes

Where's the beef? How Argentina humbled a once-mighty economy -- Whitney Eulich, CSM

Gold's Long Decline Is the Real Story -- Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg

Salvaging the Global Order -- Richard Fontaine, National Interest

1 comment:

Bob Huntley said...

You would have thought the killer would have killed the woman as well. You know to silence the witness who might have seen the face of the killer.