Jason Greenblatt, US special envoy to the Middle East, announced he will retire at the end fo the month. He revealed his intentions on Sept. 5 and while doing so, explained that the timing of his departure lines up with...
As the world watches in fascinated horror at America’s repeated mass shootings, President Donald Trump makes noise about tougher gun controls, then subsides into silence, fearing the loss of financial and political support of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA)....
Congress has returned after its summer break and with it, the i-word Democrats have been utilising so generously since 2016: impeachment. And the House is seeking answers. On Thursday a roadmap for potential proceedings was finalised. Nonetheless, the chances of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the Black Sea city of Sochi on September 12th for his 13th meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ostensibly discuss Iran and the “harm” it does to Israel’s security. However, Netanyahu was...
Brussels is about to head into turmoil as the EU’s presidential nominees are likely to be questioned in the coming weeks by parliamentary committees and investigators. This is all a part of ongoing inquiries that have every chance of derailing...
After US President Donald Trump fired his national security advisor, John Bolton on Sept.10th, the discussion immediately turned to the potential candidates who might serve as his replacement. Bolton, unabashed war-hawk, quickly became one of Trump’s closest advisors on vital...
There is little justice amid America’s spiralling opioid crisis. Drug companies get rich, addicts die. For the devastated families left behind, there’s scant hope of recourse, just an unending blame-game defined by a single question: who led their loved one...
Many Americans were shocked at the results of the 2016 presidential election. This included President-elect Donald Trump. But perhaps the most befuddled Americans were the pollsters and data collectors who used their results to repeatedly say that Hilary Clinton was...
John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, is the 45th person to be sacked from the President’s administration, which is renowned for its high turnover of staff. The two disagreed on how to tackle Iran and North Korea, with...
There is no harm in trying! as the saying goes. “Yes, we can,” Barack Obama would say instead. This time the American politician who represented Vermont in the U.S. Senate from 2007, Bernie Sanders, just tries it again: since conceding ...