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East and West, meeting in twain?
Can Obama, Xi find common ground? Special to The BRICS PostJune 7, 2013, 3:34 am In 1907, US President Teddy Roosevelt signaled the arrival of the US as as world power by sending the “Great White...
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Looking back to Spain, and sideways to Syria
Tribune 14 June 2013 Ian WilliamsGeorge Orwell understood that ignoring obvious horrors for expediency’s sake is a roadblock to justice.The New Statesman recently reminisced about its former editor...
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Speculator Column, IR magazine 4 Jun 2013 Ian WilliamsFinding chinks in the armor of the Iron Lady’s legacy Margaret Thatcher’s death in April revived discussion of state ownership of industries. The...
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Tribune Wrong in principle and pernicious in practiceby Ian WilliamsFriday, July 12th, 2013The New York Labour Party International branch has just reconstituted itself. In the old days, many of its...
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More CEO Mayhem
Comment: pushing back against buybacksInvestor Relations magazine | 29 Jul 2013 | Rating | Printby Ian WilliamsThe buy backs argument isn’t self-evidentParticularly in the US, boards boast of...
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Roads to Damascus
/http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2013/09/ian-williams-20/Intervention intentions and a credible Syrian course by Ian WilliamsTribyne Friday, September 6th, 2013Defenders of dictators throughout the...
View ArticleGood Wars and Bad Anti-War?
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September 2013, Pages 29, 34Special ReportDueling Principles: National Sovereignty Vs. Responsibility to ProtectBy Ian WilliamsAccurate history is messy,...
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US's Diplomatic Disarmament
United Nations ReportDecades of Knee-Jerk Vetos for Israel Limit U.S. Options on Syria at the U.N.By Ian WilliamsMembers of the United Nations Commission on Inquiry on Syria (l-r) Carla del Ponte of...
View ArticleThe Decline of the American Mugging.
Muggers took my Wall Street JournalA read of the paper would suggest easier and less risky ways to steal, reflects Ian WilliamsIt had been years since any armed mugging in my part of Manhattan. That...
View ArticleIran, reality impinges in DC
http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2013/10/ian-williams-21/It may only be a small step, but it may be a step forwardby Ian WilliamsSunday, October 6th, 2013As Winston Churchill said: “America always does...
View ArticleSPURNING THE PRIZE!
The Saudi decision to refuse its Security Council seat is as idiosyncratic as one would expect from an absolute monarchy that names its country after its own clan. It is even possible the King did not...
View ArticleThe Wherefores of Romeo- Dallaire that is
http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2013/11/ian-williams-22/The hero who stood fast in the Rwandan bloodbathby Ian WilliamsTribune November 1st, 2013Roméo Dallaire should be the hero of an opera. His story...
View ArticleAn ethical foreign policy?
I use Grammarly's plagiarism checker because it shows me who is copying my work! Sanity prevails over Iranby Ian WilliamsTribune Monday, December 2nd, 2013Iran’s nuclear agreement recalls Robin...
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The Curse of Canonization
pub 8 December, Huffington Post.When Nelson "Madiba" Mandela came to New York the first time we met, he exuded charisma combined with a rare modesty. He chuckled when I told him that he was...
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Saudis Out -Israelis in UN Securitty Council?
WRMEA, December 2013, Pages 24-25United NationsIn Rejecting Security Council Seat, Saudi Arabia Acknowledges RealpolitikBy Ian WilliamsMembers of Saudi Arabia’s U.N. delegation confer during the...
View ArticleHelp Poor Struggling CEOs!
Washington should step in to help out needy CEOsinShareDecember 18, 2013|By Ian WilliamsThe US has wage lessons to learn from EnglandBack in 1795, when Britain was fighting Napoleon, there was a...
View ArticleWelcome to the Orwellian Nightmare and Worse
Tribune 10 January 2014Anniversaries are the base for many a column, and surely 30 years after 1984, the world’s most memorable dystopia is a solid foundation for this one. Orwell derived many of the...
View ArticleTruth to tell and the uses and uses of ambiguity
The Sound of SilenceWritten By: Ian WilliamsTribune February 9, 2014 Last modified: February 5, 2014The Geneva talks on Syria showed that the current United States administration has followed the old...
View ArticleOnward, Onward Rode the Rogues: a mother lode of patriotic taurine excreta.
Ian WilliamsTribune Written By: Ian WilliamsPublished: March 7, 2014 Last modified: March 5, 2014Vladimir Putin’s actions in Crimea are perilously close to tearing up rules that have kept us “the...
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