The bizarre decisions and events over a 48-hour period
between the United States and Iran outlined the dangerous times that we are
confronting and point to Donald Trump as the most dangerous aspect of
all. Iran is a problem for U.S. interests,...
When Michael Rubin at the American Enterprise Institute argued in an article
in the National Interest last week that the ‘maximum pressure’ policy
of the Trump administration against Iran must be maintained despite the
dangerous brinkmanship at the Strait...
The Mueller Report already detailed how the Trump campaign —
and Trump himself — repeatedly sought and welcomed Russian help in finding
derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. While the Report concluded that
there were insufficient grounds to charge anyone with conspiracy, the
campaign’s...
U.S.
super diplomat Henry Kissinger is famously said to have asked, “Who do I call
if I call Europe?” The question is repeatedly cited as a clever way to suggest
pessimism about Europe as a reality. The answer, of course, depends upon...
concentration camp
(noun): a place in which large numbers of people, especially political
prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately
imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities,
sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.–...
The US President Donald Trump’s reported decision abruptly to call off military strike against Iran which he’d previously ordered, highlights the growing complexity of the US-Iranian entanglement.
Indeed, it takes political courage to rationalise amidst such a dangerous situation that...
John W. Whitehead
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the
assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in
darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation...
Pictures of Daniel Ezzedine
show him to be a fresh-faced 17-year-old with a warm cheerful smile.
His parents are Lebanese but he was brought up in Germany where he had
just left school. His teachers brought him to celebrate...
Several Southeast Asian governments and social movements are seeking to counter mounting polarization and inter-communal strife across the globe fuelled by the rise of civilizationalist leaders who think in exclusionary rather than inclusionary terms.
In the most high-brow of various...
President Trump has threatened China’s President Xi that if they don’t meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States will not soften its tariff war and economic sanctions against Chinese exports and...
