Americas

Is There An Answer To The Epidemic Of Mass Shootings In The United States?

That there is a change in the air is evident this time.  Since the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, there...

‘Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People’: Time to retire

Again, another mass shooting, again a school, again a troubled teen, a racist, a white supremacist, a Bloods or Crips gangster, a refugee, a...

On Jettisoning Failed Leaders and Mass Shootings in the U.S.

The scene is the House of Commons; the date May 7, 1940.  A simple motion to adjourn for the ten-day Whitsun recess is of...

Trump’s new nuclear doctrine just rhetoric

Recently the US President Donald Trump unveiled his new nuclear doctrine which had remained unchanged since 2010. Many experts consider Trump’s new doctrine which...

Donald Trump’s war

US President Donald Trump in his first annual address to the Congress "on the state of the country" on January 30, assessed the state...

Envisioning the Future in Colombia

In the sun-scorched desert of La Guajira Peninsula on the northern border of Colombia, a girl walks along the dirt road to her “rancheria”,...

Harmony at the Winter Olympics, Disharmony at the White House

It is the optimism of the young that is infectious, drowning out the cynicism of the old:  the smiling faces, their enthusiasm, their energy,...

Fire And Fury – Inside The Trump White House: Book Review

Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury – Inside The Trump White House,’ perhaps not as read-worthy as classics like Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations or...

Magician or Con Man: Trump Addresses U.S. Congress

If a headline for the State Of the Union (SOTU) address was expected to be:  "A Truculent Trump Traduces Democrats", it now could be...

America Should Not Only Be a Nation of Law, But Also of Equity

There is a very common phrase used within the legal profession, that justice should be meted out pursuant to both “law and equity.” Very few...

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