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Obama’s unforced errors on foreign policy

  When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of the US participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations. ...

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S’pore landlord hears its investors knocking

  Global Logistic Properties Ltd., (GLP) a Singapore-traded landlord with a $40 billion warehouse portfolio in China, Japan, Brazil and the US, was crying out for some honest-to-goodness investor activism. A little belatedly, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is prodding it to release what could be billions of dollars of trapped shareholder value. It’s still not too late for GLP to ...

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Everybody loses in Trump’s war on intelligence agencies

  Recently, the US intelligence community struck back. Not at Russia, which it accuses of hacking the Democratic National Committee to destabilize American democracy and swing the 2016 presidential race, but at President-elect Donald Trump, whose recent tweets have called into question not just the agencies’ findings but their competence. It’s entirely appropriate, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told ...

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