Discuss articles and topics from MSM websites. Comment boards for Yahoo, ESPN, CNN and IMDB. https://blarify.com One of the best-known quotations attributed to French philosopher Albert Camus is the assertion that "fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth," writes Jane Greenway Carr. https://blarify.com/view/78899/1/opinion-how-a-tyrant-s-terrible-novel-helped-debunk-the-premise-of-a-doomed-war-cnn https://blarify.com/view/78899/1/opinion-how-a-tyrant-s-terrible-novel-helped-debunk-the-premise-of-a-doomed-war-cnn Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:45:05 GMT On the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Peter Bergen reflects on whether -- knowing what we now know -- toppling Saddam Hussein was worth it. It's not so black and white, he says. https://blarify.com/view/78829/1/opinion-inside-saddam-hussein-s-chamber-of-horrors-i-reflect-on-20-years-since-the-iraq-war-cnn https://blarify.com/view/78829/1/opinion-inside-saddam-hussein-s-chamber-of-horrors-i-reflect-on-20-years-since-the-iraq-war-cnn Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:15:04 GMT Indeed, the agreement of long-time foes Saudi Arabia and Iran to bury the hatchet and re-establish diplomatic relations after years of confrontation and religious hostility, must inevitably take a back seat to the venue and the peacemaker who brokered this landmark pact, China, writes David... https://blarify.com/view/78451/1/opinion-china-s-new-role-relationship-coach-on-the-world-stage-cnn https://blarify.com/view/78451/1/opinion-china-s-new-role-relationship-coach-on-the-world-stage-cnn Sat, 11 Mar 2023 05:30:05 GMT When images of Kim Jong Un and his daughter watching a military parade emerged last week, Rosemary Sullivan was reminded of another famous dictator's daughter -- Josef Stalin's Svetlana Alliluyeva. https://blarify.com/view/77496/1/opinion-the-unique-predicament-of-the-dictator-s-daughter-cnn https://blarify.com/view/77496/1/opinion-the-unique-predicament-of-the-dictator-s-daughter-cnn Sun, 19 Feb 2023 11:00:05 GMT French President Emmanuel Macron plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. He'll have a fight on his hands, coming up against a complicated pension system dating back centuries and powerful trade unions, writes David A. Andelman. https://blarify.com/view/75797/1/opinion-macron-is-dragging-france-s-retirement-age-out-of-the-17th-century-cnn https://blarify.com/view/75797/1/opinion-macron-is-dragging-france-s-retirement-age-out-of-the-17th-century-cnn Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:30:05 GMT US oil prices have fallen to their lowest level since December 2021 on fears that protests in China against Covid-19 lockdowns will dent demand. https://blarify.com/view/73892/1/us-oil-price-lowest-in-nearly-a-year-gas-down-6-in-a-month-cnn-business https://blarify.com/view/73892/1/us-oil-price-lowest-in-nearly-a-year-gas-down-6-in-a-month-cnn-business Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:30:04 GMT Nine months into war, Russian hopes of a swift vitory have well and truly been dashed. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, "a truce or negotiations may be the only path to victory possible at this moment," writes David A. Andelman. https://blarify.com/view/73878/1/opinion-why-putin-would-want-a-truce-cnn https://blarify.com/view/73878/1/opinion-why-putin-would-want-a-truce-cnn Sun, 27 Nov 2022 04:30:02 GMT "While I fully agree that China's hard-line approach to Covid-19 containment has saved lives, the policy's impacts are beginning to seem worse than the disease," writes Matthew Bossons in Shanghai. https://blarify.com/view/73284/1/opinion-life-in-zero-covid-china-is-becoming-intolerable-cnn https://blarify.com/view/73284/1/opinion-life-in-zero-covid-china-is-becoming-intolerable-cnn Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:30:04 GMT On the 40th day after Mahsa's Amini death, protests grew even more widespread, more defiant, more determined. They also added to the moral imperative for the rest of the world to do more, writes Frida Ghitis. https://blarify.com/view/72588/1/opinion-the-relentless-bravery-of-iranian-protesters-is-a-moral-test-for-the-western-world-cnn https://blarify.com/view/72588/1/opinion-the-relentless-bravery-of-iranian-protesters-is-a-moral-test-for-the-western-world-cnn Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:00:03 GMT Rishi Sunak becoming the first British Asian Prime Minister tells "an important story of how Britain has changed over three generations," says Sunder Katwala, who shares how this is reflected in his own family. https://blarify.com/view/72389/1/opinion-what-britain-x27-s-first-asian-prime-minister-means-to-my-family-cnn https://blarify.com/view/72389/1/opinion-what-britain-x27-s-first-asian-prime-minister-means-to-my-family-cnn Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:30:04 GMT At the Communist Party congress starting on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping is poised to take an unprecedented third term in office. "As Xi ages, his circle of friends and advisors will inevitably shrink, as will his ability to process new information and new ideas," writes Ian... https://blarify.com/view/71844/1/china-had-a-system-then-along-came-xi-cnn https://blarify.com/view/71844/1/china-had-a-system-then-along-came-xi-cnn Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:45:05 GMT Giorgia Meloni, 45, who is the favorite to become Italy's youngest and first female prime minister in Sunday's election, does not fit into neat definitions. Her meteoric rise is perhaps best described as an audacious balancing exercise, writes Francesco Galietti. https://blarify.com/view/70875/1/opinion-giorgia-meloni-the-political-charmer-who-repacked-italy-s-far-right---cnn https://blarify.com/view/70875/1/opinion-giorgia-meloni-the-political-charmer-who-repacked-italy-s-far-right---cnn Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:45:03 GMT Hidden for decades, a mosaic that is a "key part of Rome's history" was located and returned to the Italian government, the Federal Bureau of Investigations said in a news release on Friday. https://blarify.com/view/70003/1/the-fbi-has-returned-a-2-000-year-old-italian-mosaic-that-may-have-been-lost-for-almost-a-century---cnn-style https://blarify.com/view/70003/1/the-fbi-has-returned-a-2-000-year-old-italian-mosaic-that-may-have-been-lost-for-almost-a-century---cnn-style Sun, 4 Sep 2022 03:15:05 GMT Jill Dougherty, who covered Raisa Gorbacheva's funeral in 1999, writes how Raisa's marriage to husband Mikhail Gorbachev (which began in 1953, the same year Stalin died) was a transformative part of the reform. https://blarify.com/view/70002/1/opinion-mikhail-gorbachev-s-love-affair-changed-his-country----and-the-world---cnn https://blarify.com/view/70002/1/opinion-mikhail-gorbachev-s-love-affair-changed-his-country----and-the-world---cnn Sun, 4 Sep 2022 03:15:05 GMT David A. Andelman writes that the growing tensions between the UK and France come at a particularly inauspicious moment. These two nations, key to the NATO alliance needed to combat Russian aggression, must find some way to get along -- at least with a veneer of amicability. https://blarify.com/view/69641/1/opinion-200-years-after-napoleon-s-defeat-the-french-and-british-are-still-exchanging-shots---cnn https://blarify.com/view/69641/1/opinion-200-years-after-napoleon-s-defeat-the-french-and-british-are-still-exchanging-shots---cnn Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:15:02 GMT This month marks 75 years since the partition of India -- sending Muslims to the newly formed nation of Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs to newly independent India. Here, two people who were children at the time, recount a perilous journey across the border -- and partition's legacy today. https://blarify.com/view/69019/1/lives-torn-asunder-the-children-of-indian-partition-75-years-on---cnn https://blarify.com/view/69019/1/lives-torn-asunder-the-children-of-indian-partition-75-years-on---cnn Sat, 13 Aug 2022 07:45:04 GMT This year's sweltering temperatures have seen air conditioning purchases skyrocket across Europe. The catch is that air conditioning is an extremely energy-intensive means of cooling space. Could the answer lie in an AC unit that runs on renewable energy? https://blarify.com/view/67986/1/opinion-a-very-european-answer-to-air-conditioning-cnn https://blarify.com/view/67986/1/opinion-a-very-european-answer-to-air-conditioning-cnn Fri, 22 Jul 2022 08:15:05 GMT Boris Johnson's resignation provides a glimmer of hope that those who have promoted, defended or quietly tolerated former President Donald Trump will one day decide they, too, have reached their limit, writes Frida Ghitis. https://blarify.com/view/67485/1/opinion-boris-johnson-s-political-demise-offers-a-lesson-for-us-republicans---cnn https://blarify.com/view/67485/1/opinion-boris-johnson-s-political-demise-offers-a-lesson-for-us-republicans---cnn Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:45:02 GMT President Joe Biden heads this week to the Saudi capital, where he will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose kingdom he once called "a pariah." Biden's main goal will be to get the Saudis to bring down oil prices, says Peter Bergen. https://blarify.com/view/67423/1/opinion-mr-biden-goes-to-riyadh-hat-in-hand---cnn https://blarify.com/view/67423/1/opinion-mr-biden-goes-to-riyadh-hat-in-hand---cnn Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:15:05 GMT Hip-hop star Zeyar Thaw is one of two political activists on death row in Myanmar. Their crime? "They believe in freedom," writes Zin Mar Aung, Foreign Affairs Minister of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, on Russian support of the Southeast Asian country's military junta. https://blarify.com/view/67058/1/opinion-what-a-hip-hop-star-on-death-row-has-to-do-with-dictators-everywhere---cnn https://blarify.com/view/67058/1/opinion-what-a-hip-hop-star-on-death-row-has-to-do-with-dictators-everywhere---cnn Sat, 2 Jul 2022 07:45:04 GMT