My Fantasyland

11 years ago

I gather the Serbian parliament will not actually approve the Fantasyland platform for Kosovo but will instead pass a resolution containing…

War with Iran in 2013?

11 years ago

Reuters published this piece today, under what I regard as the misleading title "Will this be the year that Israel…

What is to be done

11 years ago

Hashem Alshamy, a Syrian reader, criticized peacefare.net today: Sincerely, I have been disappointed with your overtly focus on “post-conflict” suggestions,…

War’s end can be deadly too

11 years ago

My Twitterfeed this morning is full of references to a video of Syria's thugs finishing off rebels with knives and…

Serbia’s new year

11 years ago

Publication of my reflections on Kosovo's new year made me wonder why I hadn't done a comparable piece on Serbia. …

Kosovo’s new year

11 years ago

Kosovo Sot, a Pristina paper, likes to hear from me once a year.  Here is what I sent ten days…

It is not too early

11 years ago

UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday in Moscow of the Russian Foreign Minister: I think Sergey Lavrov…

Hussein Saleh, you are not alone

11 years ago

My journalist (McClatchy) friend and fellow Haverford graduate Roy Gutman tweeted this moving short video about a Yemeni International Committee…

This is bad

11 years ago

Egypt's President Morsi has given an all too clear response to the State Department's plea that he reach out to…

Fin de regime

11 years ago

My guess is that we are finally in the waning days of the Asad regime in Syria.  UN envoy Brahimi…