Archive - The Cosmopolitan Globalist

Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria

A personal essay on regime change in Syria.

Published on Persuasion • Dec 17

Democracies Have an Attention Span Problem

Illiberalism advances under the West’s click-oriented media cycle.

Published on Persuasion • Dec 17

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🚨🚨🚨 Read this lest I be eaten by marauding dingos. ‼️ Plus: ☞ 🌏👀 Global Eyes Mini

Dec 15 •

Claire Berlinski

A Bold Plan for the New Syria

. . . .that will never happen

Published on The Raspberry Patch • Dec 13

By David Berlinski

Dec 12 •

Claire Berlinski

Ghosted by Bashar al-Assad Assad: Tehran’s “Sugar Daddy Blues”

Tehran is still in shock after Assad’s betrayal, left to grapple with a $50 billion heartbreak.

Published on Ali Hamedani • Dec 11

Global Eyes: Middle East Edition

A Middle East 201 recap, preview, and reading list

Dec 11 •

Claire Berlinski

Druze and Jews in the Golan Heights

An update from Judith Levy

Dec 10 •

Claire Berlinski

The closest I got to Damascus

What December 8 felt like for a Syrian in Istanbul

Published on Kültürkampf • Dec 10

The situation around Manbij and some comments on the US-SDF relationship

The SNA begins to pressure the Manbij pocket

Published on This Week in Northern Syria • Dec 9

memes sum up an insane week.

It’s become a bit of a cliché to point out that a year’s worth of news was crammed into one week.

Published on Lazo Letters • Dec 8

A new world is born in the Middle East.

Dec 8 •

Claire Berlinski

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