Reading Time: 4 minutes A letter from Lithuania: Its history is one of struggle and compromise. Now it’s looking to the future and its options with caution
Tag: Dictatorship
The day I was mistaken for Robert Mugabe
Reading Time: 5 minutes My first instinct was to reverse rapidly out of the courtyard and melt away into the busy streets. But when was I going to get another shot at these guys?
Was Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe always a thug?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard to know for sure, but one can safely say that, once ensconced in power, thuggery came easily to him
How to avoid tyrants claiming the highest government offices
Reading Time: 3 minutes The NDP’s ‘confidence and supply agreement’ with the Green Party in B.C. shows us how we can avoid a Trump triumph in Canada
Putin’s risky Syrian gambit is not serving him well
Reading Time: 7 minutes While former KGB agent Vladimir Putin no longer reports to anyone, that doesn’t mean a demotion might not be in his future
Mystery still swirls around Hitler’s death 72 years later
Reading Time: 10 minutes Barring the release of some smoking gun document buried in intelligence archives, the question of whether Hitler died in his bunker will probably never be settled
Turkey’s flirtation with Russia could become a full-blown romance
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ankara’s rapprochement with Moscow may yet prove to be the beginning of an entirely new direction in Turkey’s foreign policy
When Khrushchev spilled the beans
Reading Time: 3 minutes 60 years this month Nikita Khrushchev blew the whistle on (the safely deceased) Josef Stalin’s crimes
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank a study in oppression
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Harper government takes a principled stand against China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank