Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 4, 2016

Paul Lashmar, Quartz: The Panama Papers: How hundreds of journalists revealed the secrets of some of the world’s most powerful people

With the Panama Papers exposé perhaps we can now say the fortress walls of offshore secrecy are finally cracking. Such havens allow corruption and tax avoidance to take place on a massive international scale by some of the richest and most powerful people on Earth. Meanwhile, the poor get poorer.

Western politicians have huffed and puffed about clamping down on offshore havens but in reality their collective breath would not have knocked over a little piggie’s straw house let alone bastions of vested interest. It is thanks to investigative reporters, whistleblowers and unprecedented international media collaboration that the matter is being forced.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 4, 2016

Iceland Gets the First Jolt From the Panama Papers -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

The Political Fallout From the Panama Papers -- Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic

A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized -- Glen Greenwald, The Intercept

Why Isn’t There More Outrage Over Yemen? -- Daniel larison, American Conservative

Is this the man who will replace Abbas? -- Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor

China Wants to Power the World -- Adam Minter, Bloomberg

Another Western intervention in Libya looms -- Missy Ryan and Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post

How Egypt's el-Sissi is undermining stability and U.S. policy goals throughout the Middle East -- Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings

Nagorno-Karabakh: The death of diplomacy -- Richard Giragosian, Al Jazeera

How Europe built fences to keep people out -- Gabriela Baczynska and Sara Ledwith, Reuters

Frustration in Greek isles as deportations to Turkey get under way -- Sara Miller Llana, CSM

Time Is Running Out (Again) for Greece -- Bloomberg editorial

Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud over Greece's Debt -- Yanis Varoufakis, Spiegel Online

Insider’s Account of How Graft Fed Brazil’s Political Crisis -- Simon Romero, NYT

Why the Military Will Never Beat Mexico's Cartels -- Jeremy Kryt, Daily Beast

How Should the World Respond to Terrorism? -- Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic