Columns by John Metzler
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2007
- January 1, 2007 - Looking ahead: No world peace but it's 2007!
- January 8, 2007 - China’s Orwellian white paper blacklists tiny Taiwan
- January 16, 2007 - Global economic report card: E. Asia 'most dynamic', U.S. still the 'locomotive'
- January 24, 2007 - 'Broken Hope' in Darfur
- January 31, 2007 - Bush's State of the Union confronts a corrosive ill wind
- February 6, 2007 - Ban Ki-moon hits the ground stumbling, but at least Kofi is gone
- February 13, 2007 - Iran counting on Beijing and trade ties to dispel U.S. challenge
- February 20, 2007 - Did Kim Jong-il blink or wink?
- February 27, 2007 - The Last King of Zimbabwe
- March 6, 2007 - Pushing Pakistan’s Musharaf to the brink as Afghanistan hangs in the balance
- March 14, 2007 - Shadows south of the border
- March 21, 2007 - Your UN tax dollars at work: How South Africa stalled Iran sanctions
- March 28, 2007 - EU at 50: Transcending national rivalries, shedding a shared Christian heritage
- April 4, 2007 - Kosovo’s bid for freedom and why Beijing and Moscow care
- April 11, 2007 - The Damascus road show — no joke
- April 20, 2007 - UN hot air on global warming collides with surprise cold front
- April 25, 2007 - Why France’s election matters
- May 2, 2007 - Hot air on the Potomac can't stop bloodshed on the Euphrates
- May 10, 2007 - France’s Sarkozy — Champagne then reality
- May 17, 2007 - China's 'Great Wall' excludes Taiwan, sacrifices world health
- May 24, 2007 - UN elects 4th-rate thugocracy to mentor Third World
- May 29, 2007 - Recipe for genocide: Feel good talk and no action
- June 6, 2007 - Putin going retro? 'This is the language of Khrushchev'
- June 15, 2007 - Muslim masses idolize Bush in post-Stalinist Albania
- June 21, 2007 - Seeing green in Red China's environmental black eye
- June 28, 2007 - Blair's parting shot: Terrorism must be defeated . . . . But this won’t happen unless we stand up for our own values'
- July 8, 2007 - Spiked report: Pollution may kill 750,000 Chinese annually
- July 13, 2007 - Iraq — Clock, calendar and consequences
- July 20, 2007 - 'Clock is ticking' for Canada’s critical role in Afghanistan
- July 27, 2007 - Zimbabwe in freefall; Comrade Bob doing OK
- August 3, 2007 - 'Super Sarko' strikes again: Desert deals with a Bedouin king
- August 10, 2007 - Post-Blair Britain: A nudge from the Glasgow terrorists
- August 17, 2007 - Detente: 'Super Sarko's vacation diplomacy in America
- August 24, 2007 - That's entertainment (if not culture): U.S. films overwhelm French cinema
- September 10, 2007 - The UN rides to the rescue in Darfur — again
- September 17, 2007 - Iraq report: Glass half full or half empty?
- September 25, 2007 - Sound and fury in 6 languages at the political Tower of Babel
- October 1, 2007 - Comrade Mugabe comes unhinged at the UN but all's well: He hates Bush
- October 9, 2007 - Orwellian 'normalcy' in Burma further clouds the 2008 Beijing Olympics
- October 18, 2007 - Oh, and Burma is still a force in the global opium market
- October 23, 2007 - What baggage? Hanoi, Tripoli elected to UN Security Council
- October 31, 2007 - Moon probe distracts China from stale politics, pollution
- November 6, 2007 - Time for Washington to get creative with Castro's Cuba
- November 13, 2007 - Monsieur Sarkozy goes to Washington . . . with a Reaganesque message
- November 21, 2007 - Needed: A 2007 upgrade for a 1945 UN Security Council
- November 28, 2007 - Seoul's shameful UN vote
- December 6, 2007 - Road back from Damascus: More good news from Iraq
- December 12, 2007 - East Asia schools spends less, lead world in scores
- December 21, 2007 - Kosovo countdown: Crossing the political Rubicon
- December 28, 2007 - Predicting 2008: Real world challenges for new U.S. president
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