Spiegel
China may have no intentions of using its growing military might, but that is of little comfort for Western countries. From the World Trade Organization to the United Nations, Beijing is happy to use its soft power to get what it wants -- and it is wrong-footing the West at every turn.
NY Times
A recent report from the Congressional Research Service finds that the war on terror, including Afghanistan and Iraq, has been, by far, the costliest war in American history aside from World War II. It adjusted costs of all previous wars for inflation.
e-novine
U slučaju napada na Pančića predsednik Tadić je svojom izjavom pokazao neverovatnu blaziranost, tako što je kukavički ološ proglasio Teofilovim neistomišljenicima! Hoću da verujem da je ta nesrećna izjava rezultat njegove nesmotrenosti i oprhvanosti brigama oko svih loših vesti.
truthdig
Thanks to Daniel Ellsberg, who risked much to make the record of the Vietnam War public, we learned about the madness that Holbrooke and others were creating. We should be grateful to the whistle-blowers who gave us the Afghanistan war documents.
Independent
It's no surprise that the ban on bullfighting in Catalonia has provoked such media interest: the bullfight has an intense symbolic significance that is often tangled up in a clichéd, traditional image of Spanish identity.