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Opinion

2006

Opinion 2005

Zbigniew Brzezinski: There is much more at stake for America than Iraq

Scott Sullivan : President Bush as Chairman Mao

Scott Sullivan : Hakim will sink Iran

NYT's Simon Romero : Venezuelans give Chávez a mandate to tighten his grip

Sunday Herald - Scotland: Heir to the revolution

Father Jonathan Morris: Saddam Hussein got what he deserved

Simon Romero/NYT : Nonrenewal of TV license stokes debate in Venezuela

Scott Sulivan : Russia versus Iran/US in Turkmenistan

Oliver Read : The opposition to Chavez

Scott Sulivan : Turkey and Russia must confront Iran over Iraq

Scott Sulivan : Congress will block Bush Escalation in Iraq

Josh Manchester : Go Native

Obituary: Augusto Pinochet 1915-2006

Zbigniew Brzezinski: There is much more at stake for America than Iraq

Scott Sullivan : President Bush as Chairman Mao

Scott Sullivan : Hakim will sink Iran

NYT's Simon Romero : Venezuelans give Chávez a mandate to tighten his grip

Sunday Herald - Scotland: Heir to the revolution

Scott Sullivan : Bush-Ahmadinejad coalition will backfire

Cato Institute: Chávez's corrupt government destroying Venezuela from the top down

Ana Julia Jatar: Venezuela's great divider

Elvia Gomez : Alberto Garrido: "A new society follows the transition"

Iran-Watch: US should back Syria, not Iran

Alex Beech: Venezuela: The fear factor will decide election

Gustavo Coronel : Chavenomics: The Chávez answer to Milton Friedman

Simon Romero : Venezuelans square off over race, oil and a populist political slogan

Scott Sullivan : Will House Republicans bail out Pelosi in Iraq?

Andres Oppenheimer : Hispanics said 'adiós' to Republican Party

Gustavo Coronel: Coup d'État under way in Venezuela

Scott Sullivan: Bush-Ahmadinejad -Chavez axis emerges

Miami Herald : Back to the future in Nicaragua?

Newton Garver : Evo Morales' complete victory over big oil

Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela's Minister : The new PDVSA is red, truly red, from top to bottom

Simon Romero: Latin fight for U.N. Security Council seat ends

Claudia Deutsch: Play offense, defense or sit out the game?

Dan Perkins: Oaxaca

George Baker: Mexican oil experts and heirs address the future

Scott Sullivan: US victory plan for Iraq

Scott Sullivan: Prime Minister Maliki confronts Bush

How can anyone tell where the country is headed?

Scott Sullivan: A US victory plan for Iraq

Club of Madrid: Warns of impeding energy crisis

Scott Sullivan: Will the US Protect Basra from Iran?

Scott Sullivan: Deprive Iran of North Korea

Jackson Diehl : Chávez's U.N. Moment Why Do Latin Democrats Support Him?

Scott Sullivan : Bush sanctions help North Korea/Iran

Emma Brossard : Manuel Rosales from Zulia will defeat Chavez

Scott Sullivan: Will North Korea abandon Iran?

BBC: New life for Venezuela opposition?

Joel Wendland : The Reality of Venezuela

Bob Burnett : Iraq - How Do You Spell LOSER?

Gustavo Coronel: Chavez: The Hit Parade of Corruption

Lee Harris: The Pen, the Sword and the Pontiff Font Size:

BBC: New life for Venezuela opposition?

Scott Sullivan : Syria vs. Iran -- the Real War

David Ignatius: Ahmadinejad's Gauntlet

Scott Sullivan : Iran escalates separatist pressure on Iraq

Alvaro Vargas Llosa : The Latins Go Nuclear

Daniel Akst/NYT: On the contrary the good news about oil prices is the bad news

Mary Anastasia O'Grady: In Chávez's Crosshairs

Thor Halvorsen : Hugo's big lies

Michael Weiss: The Satanic Curses

Roger Lowenstein : An uncertain threat in Venezuela

Scott Sullivan : Bush must confront Chavez and Ahmadinejad

Rasool Nafisi : Ramin Jahanbegloo: a repressive release

Rasool Nafisi : The meaning of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s arrest

Roger Alford : Benedict XVI on Holy War

Ben Lieberman: Snake oil policy

Scott Sullivan Kristol's white flag on terrorism

Scott Sullivan A plan for Muqtada al-Sadr to stabilize Iran

Raymond J. Learsy: Massive oil find in Gulf of Mexico brings gloom to 'Peak Oil' pranksters

Georgie Anne Geyer : Peacekeeping not the antidote for all the world's ills

Scott Sullivan: Does Khatami support an independent Kurdistan?

Myra P. Saefong/MW: Venezuela and China -- a troubling alliance?

Scott Sullivan: If Bush is Churchill, he must support Russia

WorldNetDaily: U.S. taxpayers subsidizing Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
Obscure 17-year-old oil pricing formula pays up to $1 million a day to harsh critic

VenEconomy: Deficit plus lack of confidence

Gustavo Coronel: In Chad, a clone of Hugo Chavez expels the oil companies

Simon Romero/NYT : Venezuela strengthens its relationships in the Middle East

Iran-Watch: Saudis focus on Turkey-Iran confrontation

David Ignatius/WP: Are We Fighting 'Islamic Fascists'?

VenEconomy: A strategic blunder

VenEconomy: None so blind as those who will not see

VenEconomy: Flying solo

Our View: The Middle East outlook looking good

Eugene Robinson: In Mexico, a challenger stays put

The Economist: On PDVSA

Simon Romero/NYT : For Venezuela, as distaste for U.S. grows, so does trade

John Kenney : Beyond propaganda

Scott Sullivan: Morales power grab puts US on hotseat

Scott Sullivan: Turkey will block Iran-US plan to partition Iraq

Ukraine political pact a welcome respite, but questions remain

Scott Sullivan: Turkey will block Iran-US plan to partition Iraq

Scott Sullivan: US should break diplomatic relations with Venezuela

Lisa M. Wixon: Cuba for Dummies

Moshe Yaalon: The Rules of War

Scott Sullivan: Iran targets Arab states, not Israel

Jim Landers : Driving a hard bargain

Scott Sullivan: Ahmadinejad-Bush alliance survives congressional challenge. Will Putin join?

Scott Sullivan: The US protects Bolivia against separatists

Leonid Gankin: On equal terms: price of the question

Iran Watch: Latest news from Iran Nuclear Standoff

Mario Villarreal : It's getting ugly in Mexico

Evgeny Morozov : Trouble in the Pipeline

Steven Dudley : Oil spawns new wave of newly rich in Venezuela

Scott Sullivan : Predictions -- Bush, Olmert. Putin, Merkel, and Morales

Lee Roberts : Welcome Back Geneva:Letter from America

Scott Sullivan: Time for Hastert to name presidency transition team

Jorge Castaneda : Calderon to lead the next 'revolution'

Tyler Bridges/Houston Cronicle: A bluff or a bow to Bolivia

Stratfor on: Iran, Iraq: Ahmadinejadin Baghdad

Gary Marx/ Chigago Tribune: Venezuelaputs squeeze on foreignoil companies

By J. Jordan and J. Powell/WP: The false hope of Biofuels: For energy and environmental reasons, Ethanol will never replace gasoline

Simon Romero/NYT :A former guerrilla reinvents himself as a candidate

Andy Webb-Vidal and Mark Turner/FT : Venezuela fights US bid to keep it off UN panel

Webb-Vidal/FT: Chávez orders new national currency

Paul Richter and Maggie Farley: U.S. is aiming to block Venezuela's bid for
U.N. role

Oxford Analytica Venezuela: Doubts over oil policy raise risk premium

Andreas A Tsolakis Evo Morales’s project: the limits of nationalism

Christine Brennan : When in the world will we catch on about the World Cup?

Scott Sullivan: Germany should apprehend Ahmadinejad!

Dan Froomkin/WP: Change Of Course?

Scott Sullivan: Chavez will rescue Bush

Scott Sullivan: Does Bush support Lopez Obrador? Does Obrador want nukes?

Jim Landers : Dallas-based Hunt, others appear set to continue lucrative plans in Peru

Scott Sullivan: Gernan/Iranian Nazis Threaten World Cup

Scott Sullivan: Iraq will stop Iran; Bolivia will stop Chavez

Scott Sullivan: Khalilzad proposes US direct talks with Iran

Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren: The killing floor: an argument against oil price minimums

Douglas MacKinnon: Focusing on closer threats

George Philip : The politics of oil in Venezuela

Scott Sullivan: US/Iran Ambush of Israel and Saudi Arabia

George Philip : The politics of oil in Venezuela

Breffni O'Rourke: Venezuela's flight of fancy

Joel Brinkley/NYT : In word feud with 'Hitler,' 'Satan' draws line in sand

Scott Sullivan: USA faces a crushing "1905 defeat" in Iraq/Iran

The National Assembly 21 agreements of joint venture oil companies

Scott Sullivan: Iran-Germany showdown over World Cup

The National Assembly 21 agreements of joint venture oil companies

Robert Aronen : Proof of price fixing at the pump?

Petrobras disavows Bolivian government declaration

U.S. Government Reform Committee Report: ‘Securing America’s Energy Future’

Jeff Slade: Great exploitations: The left and illegal immigration

Reuters: Ahmadinejad's Letter to Bush

Scott Sullivan: Morales's goal is regional sabotage

San Francisco Cronicle: Nationalizing natural resources: In Bolivia, it's a gas

Marianna Parraga: Interview with PDVSA's CVP president

Jim Jubak: the oil world's new bullies

Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Three amigos: Evo, Hugo and Fidel

Scott Sullivan: Iran's 3 fatal mistakes will speed its defeat.
They are:

Scott Sullivan: 10 Point US Action Plan on Iran

Scott Sullivan: Forget Iran Nukes: Who Controls Iraq?

Gustavo Coronel: The Venezuelan petroleum industry: When principles are involved

Scott Sullivan: Boycott Ahmadinejad!

Scott Sullivan: Iran will escalate in Iraq, with US support

Scott Sullivan: Message to Iran: Remove President Ahmadinejad!

Michael Fox: A U.S. intelligence hoax on Venezuela?

Michael Levi: Iran's sitting duck

Richard Clarke and Steve Wilson/NYT: Bombs that would backfire

NYT: Blood and Oil

Chris Kraul/LA Times: A political minefield in Venezuela's oil fields

Scott Sullivan: Talking points: US-Iran negotiations -- "Iran has already lost"

Gustavo Coronel: The Venezuelan petroleum industry: When principles are involved

Scott Sullivan: Support Independence for Eastern Bolivia

Bahman Aghai Diba / Persian Journal: US-Iran Negotiations: "Not About Iraq"

Wealthy lowlands threaten to split

Scott Sullivan: US wants Iran to pick new Iraqi PM

Jamaica Gleaner: PetroCaribe mystery

Why give Iran a say on Iraq?

Scott Sullivan: China versus Chavez in Latin America

Free Republic: Chavez's wooing of Iran called troubling (merely troubling?)

Scoot Sullivan: Energy instability in Persian gulf and Latin America

The Christian Science Monitor : Fresh thinking on Iraq

Gwynne Dyer: Iran, Oil and Euros: The war

Gustavo Coronel: The U.S.-Venezuela energy showdown

Scoot Sullivan: What price Hastert?

Alexandra Starr : How the US went wrong in Latin America

Scott Sullivan: Good News: Iran Cannot Have Nukes and Empire

Madhur Jaffrey: The fruits of diplomacy

Scott Sullivan: US attack on Iran would fuel Chavez takeover of Latin America

Gwynne Dyer: Iran: Everything is on the table

Scott Sullivan:President Hastert,Iraq, and the Third American Revolution

Oxford Analytica:Petkoff could be Chavez’s toughestopponent in Venezuela

Ivan Martinez:Why Latin Americais moving to the left

Andres Oppenheimer:Morales' moves are not reassuring

NYT: Iran's best friend

Steven Dudley/ Miami Herald: Chavez's wooing of Iran called troubling

Scott Sullivan: NATO and Turkey are the key actors in Iraq

John Hughes: Latin America's leftist regimes get cozy with Iran

Danger Signs in Nigeria

Scott Sullivan: Chavez financial lifeline to Hamas / Analysis

Scott Sullivan: Congress must challenge Tehran-Caracas axis

John Brown: CITGO and the politics of oil

Pamela Constable/WP: U.S. officials soften stance toward Bolivia's new leftist president

Kevin Kerr: OPEC train wreck! :Riding the rails to $100 oil

Laurie Knop: Elections and democracy in Haiti: Chronicle of a catastrophe

Alexandros Petersen: The Consequences of a Strong Russia

Lee Harris: Misunderestimating Moktada al-Sadr

Scott Sullivan: China will not Bail Out Morales

Levine, Turkeltaub and Gorbansky : 3 myths about the Iran conflict

Gustavo Coronel: What is going on in Venezuela?

Roger Burbach:Bolivia's Morales deftly keeps enemies at bay while pushing reforms

Marta Colomine: Pandemonium

Scott Sullivan: Principal rogue states are hispanic

Oliver L Campbell: Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP’S financial results for 2005

Julia E. Sweig/NYT: Continental drift

Larry Birns & Sabrina Starke: Botched job: The UN and the Haitian election

Gustavo Coronel : A proposal that smells as rotten gas

Scott Sullivan: Iran holds keys to Middle Eastern stability

V.Lincy and G. Milhollin: Russia's sweetheart deal for Iran

Anthony Hall: Putin fires first salvo in new Cold War in Europe...

Gregory Lewis Katzman : Just another duped ideologue: Cindy blogs again

Scott Sullivan : A "Two State" Solution for Palestine and Bolivia

Gustavo Coronel : A proposal that smells as rotten gas

Andrés Oppenheimer: 'Piqueteros' help keep welfare culture thriving

Scott Sullivan: US support for separatism/terrorism backfires

Kuwait's royals: no strangers to overcoming turmoil

Davos mixes oil and water, east and west to attract big business

Dave Price: Iran: The Choice

Alvaro Vargas Llosa/NYT: Unrest in South America

James Surowiecki/ New Yorker: Morales's mistake

Mary Anastasia O'Grady/WSJ : The New Tehran-Caracas Axis

Christopher Walker : Democracy in Latin America not in crisis --
but ailing

By Jerry Brewer: Mexico is gaining momentum in Latin America

Richard Lapper/FT: A solid platform for progress

Emma Brossard: “Down Falls the Bridge -- Likewise Chavez”

Veneconomy : The Month in Review ( December)

Gustavo Coronel : Is Hugo Chavez jinxed?

Georgie Anne Geyer: The challenge of wrapping 2005 into a pretty package