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FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Wednesday, October 29

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#1
"CHICKENSHIT" LITTLE: The White House is in damage control after an anonymous Obama administration official was quoted calling Benjamin Netanyahu a 'chickenshit': <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOYA6454 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOTA0422>

#2
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT: Eastern Ukraine is under constant shelling, its borders change daily, and it's not clear what powers the new government will have. But the Donetsk People’s Republic is still holding an election on Sunday: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOZA0066 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOUA9eac>

#3
STOP THE PRESSES: Progress on media freedom is backsliding in Myanmar. Will Obama speak up to save his biggest foreign-policy success? <a href='
http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOaA3d40 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOVAab93>

#4
ISIS IN THE GULF: Support for extremist groups in Bahrain -- including the Islamic State -- has flourished even as the government has been cracking down on the non-violent, pro-democracy opposition: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVObA7ae1 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOWA7183>

#5
TRIMMING THE FAT: From the Office of Forbidding Midday Alcohol Consumption to the Watermelon Office, Chinese bureaucracy has run amok. And the country's president is now trying to rein it in: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOcA24d3 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xycl.1sv1/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOXAb87f>

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