While the world focuses on war and humanitarian suffering resulting from Turkey’s military operations in northern Syria starting in October, the defense industries and national governments of the United States has been focused on trying to come to an agreement...
While Donald Trump may have been a political neophyte, he was no stranger to business. As a hard-boiled New York City real estate veteran and entrepreneur, his efficacy at navigating politics and transacting successful businesses is built either on his...
The Republicans have been able to depend upon the red southern states for a while under its Electoral College system, but changing demographics are threatening the GOP’s dominance in these states. The Lone Star State of Texas provided George W....
Abrazos, no balazos – so goes Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s political mantra. Hugs, not bullets. There’s been plenty of both in Mexico’s blood-soaked month of murder. The newly elected president has pledged to end his nation’s violence epidemic, but the...
French President Emmanuel Macron claimed last week that NATO was brain dead and its core collective defence commitments in doubt, blaming US President Donald Trump for causing the alliance to crumble. Indeed, the lack of a unified response among Western...
Pursued, fired upon, then captured by Russian sailors, the Ukrainian crew must’ve feared their plight might go unnoticed. But it didn’t. Days after the Kerch Strait incident late last year, a multinational reconnaissance plane soared over the turbulent waters. With...
In the gubernatorial election in the Republican stronghold Kentucky, Trump’s candidate Governor Matt Bevin (48.83 per cent) was narrowly beaten by his Democratic challenger Andy Beshear (49.19 per cent). Three years ago, Trump had won Kentucky in a landslide during...
With the demise of Al-Baghdadi and ISIS virtually defeated on the battlefield, it is worth having a look at President Obama’s counterterrorism policy, which has often been misinterpreted, while remaining subject to criticism. Change was coming In 2008, Barack Obama...
On Friday, Democratic front-runner Elizabeth Warren presented her Medicare for All plan. New taxes for the wealthy as well as corporations are supposed to finance the proposal that costs 20.5 trillion US dollars over one decade. It is a risky...
From a dictation of a blanket ban on all crypto activities and digital currencies as tools for retail payments, including access to international exchange platforms in 2018, to recent declaration of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to launch a...