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Research Fellow at ∙ Editing ∙ International Security and Middle East Policy ∙ schneider.tbs@gmail.com

Berlin, Germany
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Joined June 2011
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  1. 2 hours ago

    "How Much is Enough?" Simpl(ified) and straightforward breakdown of US defense spending PPP-corrected and according to region

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Turkey apparently on Wednesday updated its 2014 designation of Jabhat Al-Nusra to include its newest current brand Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    By this I mean very basic things, like your parents owning their home.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    "Central to appreciating the Great War as fought by the AEF are two facts. First, the violence was extreme. [...] Second, the U.S. military had no idea what it was doing."

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  5. 5 hours ago

    The Egyptian thugocracy out of ideas for how to deal with an aggrieved citizen they can't just smear or imprison.

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    Aug 30

    As an Egyptian-American born in Merseyside and a lifelong fan, I had a lot to say to about Salah and the Egyptian FA. A few of those thoughts made it into his piece // Egypt’s Soccer Star Aims for a New Goal: Humbling His Own Bosses

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Even without a trust fund, family wealth matters too. Say you managed to squeek out a living off freelance rates, inability to save or build capital still forces you out eventually. Not having to thinki about savings/retirement in your 20s/30s is a luxury.

    Journalists are becoming increasingly like artists - people who pretend they’re slumming it when many have at least a healthy rainy day fund or a small apartment a distant aunt left them that they rent out to subsidize their career. Because the industry’s…
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    6 hours ago

    Yet as Italians know well, an intertwined set of local business, law enforcement, criminal and political networks who share a worldview based on contempt for a nation's democratic constitutional order isn't just a threat to minorities. It is a threat to the state and rule of law

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    15 hours ago

    Very cool to see and the team get their work profiled like this. They take a lot of shit for what they do, and they deserve much more appreciation.

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    20 hours ago

    Another sign of gradual shift in stance on . Understand German FM Maas pushed EU counterparts to broaden approach, focus more on regional threats, rights issues & not so overwhelmingly on support. His view backed by others. 1/2

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  11. 22 hours ago

    Now release Daqduq transcripts pls

    There goes the good name of Qais Khazali!
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    23 hours ago

    Here's the bigger stash of released Qais Khazali interview transcripts via Very interesting to see Qais dishing so much dirt on Lebanese Hezbollah leaders, fellow Sadrists, identifying persons of interest to the US, giving tactical detail on locations

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  13. 23 hours ago

    There goes the good name of Qais Khazali!

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  14. Aug 30

    Next he'll complain about tea houses.

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  15. Aug 30

    "No one made eye contact." Sign of successful British integration.

    One of the laziest pieces of journalism I've seen. Reporter walks around Whitechapel for an hour and writes off whole of London as "failed multiculturalism". Was certainly not my experience living in Whitechapel for two years …
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    Aug 29

    Yeltsin's Russia was extremely weak, a country in economic free-fall and strategic decline. Clinton's America was enjoying its unipolar moment. How did the two deal with each other?

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  17. Aug 30

    My colleague and argue for a joint German-Turkish "Haydarpaşa Commission” to help stabilize the Turkish economy:

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    Aug 29

    I want to interrupt my coverage of refugees being abused in Libya to repost my reporting (& I visited Syria last year) of Syrian refugees being arrested, tortured & killed by the Assad regime after returning home.

    According to Syrian state media, a delegation of the Polish ministry of foreign affairs visited Damascus to explore opportunities for refugee return, promising to fund a pilot settlement for 100 families "in a place picked by the Syrian state", …
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    Aug 29

    Probably only article I've written whose title references a video game, so check it out:exclusive reporting on clan problems in Yarmouk Basin in Deraa post-IS:specifically btwn Samuri clan & Baridi clan.Former says latter responsible for IS and destruction

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  20. Aug 29

    Is misspelling 's name like an Iraqi meme?

    Iran-backed Hash al-Shaabi organizes a demonstration in Baghdad against US [] interference in the Iraqi affairs.
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