Barrie Dunsmore
CommentatorBarrie Dunsmore is a veteran diplomatic and foreign correspondent for ABC News, now living in Charlotte.
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China and the United States are the world’s top two carbon polluters accounting for about 45% of the world’s carbon emissions. Until now, China has been…
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The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago signaled the end of the Cold War, although it didn’t end officially for more than another year. But that night,…
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Iran definitely has shared interests with the American led coalition seeking to degrade and eventually destroy the Islamic State militants, know as ISIS.…
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While covering seven American presidents, I reported on the two threats to President Gerald Ford - and the assassination attempt on President Ronald…
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Full disclosure. My mother was born in Glasgow. She emigrated to Canada with her mother shortly after World War I. Her father was one of many Scottish…
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 as a mutual defense treaty against the threat of a possible attack in Europe by the Soviet…
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The Russian-American writer Julia Ioffi wrote last week in the New Republic, “Whenever the U.S. pointed to Soviet human rights violations, the Soviet’s…
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When I went into the Sinai desert with Israeli forces in June of 1967, I harbored no doubts about the morality of that war. Against the backdrop of…
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The split in Islam between Sunnis and Shiites took place in the 7th century, over who would succeed the prophet Mohammed. The Shias believed it should be…
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From the moment it was announced during Pope Francis’ recent Middle East trip, that he was inviting Israeli and Palestinian leaders to visit him in Rome,…