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Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 6, 2015
Premier League powers generate most interest in F.A. Cup
The F.A. Cup does not have a sponsor. Remarkably, football's oldest domestic knockout competition is the only tournament in the top tier not to have any naming rights.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2015
Joining Islamic State is stupid, but why is it illegal?
As with so many other basic legal precepts, the right of Americans to serve in a foreign army has been eroded since 9/11.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2015
Empire of petty shopkeepers
It is clear that British Prime Minister David Cameron as well as many leading lights of the government coalition do not believe in the EU, yet they do not have a strategy for a British exit without penalties.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2015
Americans must tell Washington no more war
No matter how disastrous the outcome, the American war lobby of fools lives on, insisting that the idea to go to war was sound and that any problems resulted from engaging too few troops, not doing enough bombing, ending an occupation too soon or spending too few dollars.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 20, 2015
LDP, Komeito split on SDF's overseas role
The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito remained far apart Friday over how far to expand the Self-Defense Forces' overseas activities in line with the Abe administration's controversial reinterpretation of the pacifist Constitution last summer.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2015
Blame Obama for Libya's descent into chaos
U.S. President Barack Obama destroyed Libya, just as George W. Bush destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan earlier. Obama doesn't deserve a historical pass.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2015
Uses, and abuses, of history in the Middle East conflict
There remains in the U.S. an incorrigible conviction that it is the 'indispensable' nation, and that it alone can bring peace to nations. And that's done by more intervention and war, splitting nations in civil, tribal and sectarian battles in which the U.S. chooses sides and nominates the leaders.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2015
Grand theft, by U.S. law enforcement agencies
Dubious asset foreiture programs have become big business for U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 13, 2015
Van Gaal gets defensive with Man United struggling
"Am I so brilliant or are you so thick?"
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 13, 2015
Ukraine: first arms, then what?
If the U.S. commits itself to sending arms to Ukraine, it will be signing up for more than military aid. Arms shipments alone are almost never enough to enable a weaker actor to defeat a big-time power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2015
The U.S.-India nuclear breakthrough that wasn't
Nuclear power faces an uncertain future, with few new reactors under construction in the West. Yet India has continued to place the nuclear deal at the hub of its relationship with America.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2015
Obama's Middle East fantasy
For all of the problems posed by significant U.S. ground forces in the Middle East, it is the only option right now if President Barack Obama wishes to stop the advance of the Islamic State group without aiding the advance of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2015
Obama's gamble on free community college
Is U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal to make community college free mostly an exercise in political brand management?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2015
How the West's policies are losing Ukraine
Ukrainians fighting against eastern separatists and Russian forces are bitter about all the supportive Western rhetoric not materializing into weapons and reinforcements. The long-game strategies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama could yet give rise to an anti-Western backlash.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2015
Time for EU and U.S. to step back from Ukraine conflict
For the first time since 1990, nuclear war is considered a possibility, all because of the conflict in east Ukraine. The U.S. and its European allies have been the aggressors in this confrontation with Russia, and they are the ones who can call it off.
WORLD
Feb 6, 2015
U.S. moves rescue assets to Iraq in fight against Islamic State
The United States has sent search and rescue assets to northern Iraq in recent days, bolstering its ability to recover coalition personnel in the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2015
Tehran shouldn't underestimate Obama's abilities
Tehran should be careful not to base its negotiation calculations with Washington on yesteryear's political realities.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2015
Why is America at war with the Islamic State?
The Islamic State group doesn't pose a threat to the United States, so why is the U.S. waging a war against it?

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