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Voices of experience from the Soviet bloc offer counsel to Arab Spring leaders
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A seamless political thread running through the current General Assembly debate has been that of the “Arab Spring”, the movement which shifted the political sands...
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Vaclav Havel: The passing of a Renaissance man
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Author, Playwright, and former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel has died at age 75. Havel, as literary figure and a political dissident, confronted the...
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Named but not shamed: UN Rights Committee cites abuses in Syria, Iran and N....
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tis’ the season in the General Assembly for some serious if generally overlooked work and reports. An Assembly committee has soundly condemned the continuing human...
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Remembering Vaclav Havel, who inspired freedom fighters from Europe to N....
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — One year ago the renowned author, playwright, and former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel died at age 75. In tribute to this extraordinary European...
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A thoroughly decent German leader gets no respect from the moronic rabble
By Uwe Siemon-Netto These days I am proud to be a German. I am saying this not because of my country’s economic and therefore growing political prowess; that would be childish posturing. Angela Merkel...
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Golden Prague: Formerly gray Soviet bloc state has been liberated
By John J. Metzler PRAGUE — Arriving in Prague’s Vaclav Havel airport, one is immediately swept into the present; not just a refurbished terminal but a new look where people actually smile, immigration...
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Now we know: UN report pulls back a communist regime’s shroud of shame
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “How can we claim we didn’t know,” governments and media may soon be asking themselves as stunning new evidence of suffering and widespread human rights violations...
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Recalling Reagan’s scorned warnings against dangers of dependency on Russian...
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A deteriorating and dangerous diplomatic showdown continues over Ukraine as the United States and European Union rhetorically push back against Vladimir Putin’s...
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FAITH MATTERS: ‘Selfish’ Germany’s warm welcome to 800,000 refugees
By Uwe Siemon-Netto Measuring a mere 137,000 square miles, Germany is not even as big as the U.S. state of Montana (147,000 sq. mi.). Germany is home to 81 million people, compared with Montana’s one...
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FAITH MATTERS: Volkswagen and Germany’s lost virtue
By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Arrogance is the art to take pride in its own stupidity,” says an astute German aphorism allegedly coined by Goethe. Arrogance comes to mind as the most charitable attribute when...
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WORLD MATTERS: Yes, European conservatives agree, U.S. politics and media are...
By Uwe Siemon-Netto Pardon an outburst from a fervent friend of the United States: Yes, Secretary of State John Kerry is right! This year’s election campaign is indeed an embarrassment to America! As...
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WORLD MATTERS: The Brexit sorrow of an Anglo-German couple
By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Oh dear, I’d better stay in bed,” groaned my English wife, Gillian, when I woke her on Friday morning with the sad news that her compatriots had voted to leave the European Union....
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WORLD MATTERS: An Edmund Burke conservative in Europe protests Brexit...
By Uwe Siemon-Netto Of the half-billion people living in the European Union, 440 million are not British. These 440 million all live in functioning democracies. Most of those 27 countries are members...
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Nuggets of common sense at the UN
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In the midst of a fractious and sometimes near farcical General Assembly debate, there a have been surprisingly candid and common sense comments from the marble...
View ArticleSyria, Libya, Nicaragua flunk the smell test for UN Human Rights Council
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — It’s one of the traditional Rites of Spring at the United Nations, the election of new members to the Human Rights Council, the 47 member deliberative body viewing...
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Voices of experience from the Soviet bloc offer counsel to Arab Spring leaders
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A seamless political thread running through the current General Assembly debate has been that of the “Arab Spring”, the movement which shifted the political sands...
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Vaclav Havel: The passing of a Renaissance man
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Author, Playwright, and former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel has died at age 75. Havel, as literary figure and a political dissident, confronted the...
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Named but not shamed: UN Rights Committee cites abuses in Syria, Iran and N....
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tis’ the season in the General Assembly for some serious if generally overlooked work and reports. An Assembly committee has soundly condemned the continuing human...
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