January | 2014 | Watching America

Azerbaijan : Obama’s Invisible Foreign Policy

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in Today

Turkey: US, Turkey Realize al-Qaida Threat in Syria

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in Hurriyetim

Spain: A New Era at the Fed

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in El Pais

Brazil: Looking at Surveillance

Jane Dorwart - January 31, 2014. Published in Folha de Sao Paulo

Spain: The Dirty Business ofPrivate Prisons in the US

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in El País

In their public reports, the companies admit that a growing prison population has a positive impact on their results, and that any relaxation of immigrant detention procedures or sentencing law could pose a threat to their business.

France: 2013 Account Balance: $14 Billion of Chinese Investments in the US

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in Le Figaro

Sweden: The Answer Will Not Do

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in Dagens Nyheter

Netherlands: Barbie Taught You that as a Woman You Could Do Anything

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in De Volkskrant

Barbie never had children, we never see her in domestic drudgery and she isn't some exploited peasant or a prostitute or the victim of sexual violence. Barbie would never let anything like that happen to her.

Russia: Republicans Will Present ‘an Alternative to Obamacare’

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in The Voice of Russia

If Republicans really want to help the average American they could try to dismantle the cartels operating in the healthcare industry and stimulate the prosecution of companies that force American consumers to pay exuberant prices for medicines and medical procedures.

Japan: Virginia Senate Adopts ‘East Sea’ Label, Declares ‘We Stand with Koreans’

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2014. Published in Sankei News

Romania: The Land Behind the Shield

Robin Koerner - January 30, 2014. Published in Jurnalul National

China: Unlike the Philippines, Vietnam Will Not Play the Pawn of the US

Robin Koerner - January 30, 2014. Published in Huanqiu

Yet Vietnam is unlikely to become another Philippines, unlikely to become another tame pawn of the U.S. The dissimilarities between the two Asian-Pacific nations are too great, and Vietnam has a far more complex relationship with the U.S.

Monthly Archives: January, 2014