President Trump has fulfilled a campaign promise he made during the 2016 General Election by withdrawing the United States from Obama’s Iran Deal. His reasons for doing so are understandable. The Iran Deal was a small but significant step in...
You would be forgiven for thinking it was the plot of a classic Franz Kafka story. Ahmet Hüsrev Altan, a Turkish journalist, former editor (of Taraf) and novelist, is woken from sleep at 05.42 am by his doorbell ringing. In...
In Haaretz, Chemi Shalev identifies Benjamin Netanyahu as the stalling engine of the Iran-US crisis. He would be the “prime suspect” in the event of war. In fact, if it was the hawks in his administration that led Trump toward...
The referendum on Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of national populism in Europe are a clear sign of mass discontent towards our current political system. But what is the ideology behind this system, how has it...
The battle to assure global national security passes through Chinese cyberspace. The recent ban of Huawei and ZTE technologies by the American government raises several questions on the adoption of the 5G broadband system. The United States was followed in...
Ukrainians have chosen a comedian to lead them. But the new president, elected amid promises of draining the swamp, may soon discover that swamp water is the lymph and blood of Ukrainian political culture. In late April, five years after...
British Parliament, since its inception, has been the model on which emerging democracies base their governments. Today, however, Prime Minister Theresa May’s government finds itself paralyzed in the face of the Brexit question, and on the cusp of succumbing to...
On the face of it, the summer of 2019 does not look like a good time to try and cut a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians. In recent weeks, fighting has flared between Israeli forces and Gaza-based militants, hard-line...
In a campaign that upended the established political system, gags came easy for Ukraine’s president-elect. He is, after all, a comedian. But as Volodymyr Zelensky looks beyond his momentus election victory, he’ll know punchline prowess stands for little. Beset with...
The Washington Post has taken a stand on the Iranian crisis with an editorial which urges president Trump to put his guns back into the holster and “take a diplomatic way out”. The increasing tensions with Iran, writes the WP...
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