The Free And The Fettered
It was almost two-and-one-half centuries ago -- July 2, 1776 to be exact -- when the American colonies voted for independence; two days later,...
“America first” and Canada’s approach towards immigration
The Trump Administration’s recent announcement to suspend work visas--H1B (visas for high skilled professionals), H4B (spouses of H1B visa holders) and L1 Visas (intra...
The Atom And The Virus: A Progressively Lethal Convergence For The United States
“It is only in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."-Albert Camus, The Plague
Americans...
Implications Of Racial Unrest And Police Brutalities In U.S.
The recent killing of George Floyd by Police has sparked a wave of protests in the United States as African Americans are demanding a...
Making #DigitalCaribbean a Reality
Digital technologies - the internet and other tools to collect and share information digitally - are spreading rapidly. The share of world population using...
The Age of Decoupling & Smaller States
Analyses abound claiming that the coronavirus pandemic will benefit China more than the rest of the world, the US in particular. America is the...
Mexico’s Nonsensical Security Policy
Contradictory, that is how one could define the current administration’s security approach. The president inaugurated his presidential term by declaring the end of hostilities...
Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?
"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Toward the close of World War II, with...
The other pandemic: Systemic racism, xenophobia and hate on a global scale
Ever since the killing of George Floyd, a middle-aged African-American man, by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020, America had witnessed a...
Do Not Forget the Wayuu Nation: A Forgotten Nation on the Periphery of Humanitarian Aid
The international aid community must use the occasion of World Refugee Day to start fielding the urgent needs of indigenous migrants. We must direct...