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July 10, 2019
Nicki Minaj Praised for Pulling Out of Saudi Arabia Concert After Furious Online Backlash
Sunjeev Bery interviewed
In this article on Nicki Minaj's decision to pull out of a concert in Saudi Arabia, Sunjeev Bery, director of Freedom Forward, is quoted for praising the decision as it sends a message to the Saudi regime.
July 3, 2019
Egypt: Six years after the coup, what has US military assistance bought us?
By Ian Wallace
The death of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi just weeks before the sixth anniversary of the military coup that ousted him from office is a dark - but fitting - symbol of Egypt’s devolution back into autocracy. But after an unpredictable decade of upheaval, revolution, and counter-revolution one thing has remained constant - the annual flow of billions of dollars in US military aid.
July 2, 2019
Crouching China, Hidden North Korea Agenda
by Henri Féron
Xi Jinping’s unprecedented show of support to Pyongyang has made clearer than ever the limits of a sanctions-based policy that would fail to include engagement. Since Beijing accounts for the quasi-totality of the trade and aid bound North, it can single-handedly make or break the effectivity of the U.S.-led sanctions regime.
July 5, 2019
A Hearing On Africa: Questions Unanswered, Questions Unasked By Salih Booker And Temi Ibirogba
by Salih Booker and Temi Ibirogba
The whole framework harkens back to the wasteful, destructive, and corrosive Cold War era of big power competition in Africa where the political and economic aspirations of Africans were largely ignored.
July 2, 2019
Crouching China, Hidden North Korea Agenda
by Henri Féron
Xi Jinping’s unprecedented show of support to Pyongyang has made clearer than ever the limits of a sanctions-based policy that would fail to include engagement. Since Beijing accounts for the quasi-totality of the trade and aid bound North, it can single-handedly make or break the effectivity of the U.S.-led sanctions regime.
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