Hard choices

14 years ago

My friends at Reuters published today my reaction to Dennis Ross' New York Times piece yesterday on negotiating with Iran…

Bizarre, but the cracks are showing

14 years ago

That's the only word for President Bashar al Assad's announcement today that he intends to hold a referendum on a…

Silence on the main issues

14 years ago

Sometimes the things that don't happen are more important than the things that do.  What did not happen last month…

Boning up on China

14 years ago

As readers of this blog will know, I am not an Asia expert and hesitate to write about a part…

This week’s peace picks: better late than never!

14 years ago

I was ill last night and didn't get the peace picks up until late today, but here are a few…

A rose is a rose

14 years ago

Gertrude Stein might just as well have said "Macedonia is Macedonia."  The trouble is, the Greeks don't like to hear…

Nonviolence in Syria revisited

14 years ago

Yesterday was busy on peacefare.net, with some vigorous comments and tweets about my post on Syria.  I thought I might…

Yes, nonviolence, even now

14 years ago

TheAtlantic.com published my call for a return to nonviolence in Syria this morning, under the infelicitous title "Why the Syrian…

You decide who was responsible

14 years ago

So far as I can tell, these materials are not readily available in English: 1.  A press release from the…

The longer you wait, the higher the price

14 years ago

The 3.5 (sometimes called four) Serb-majority municipalities of northern Kosovo are under Belgrade's control, not Pristina's.  Milan Marinković writes from…