Struggling With the Virus on Multiple Fronts: Unseen Impacts on the Risks of Nuclear War with North Korea
"This virus is going to disappear."-US President Donald J Trump, February 27th, 2020
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."-T S Eliot,...
The Illusion Of Delusions: Question Time For A President
Questioned at his daily news conference on rating his performance to COVID-19 on a scale of 1 to 10 ... 'I'd rate it a...
A South American NATO?
With the rise to power of President Bolsonaro in Brazil, there is often talk about the granting of military bases to the United States...
A Once Unimaginable Scenario: The President as Monster
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
For Americans, the incumbent...
Mexico and COVID-19: Is the President Ready?
The world was caught by surprise by a virus that soon spread worldwide. The responses of countries to tackle it have been both diverse...
What Do We Do Now? Larger Lessons From The Pandemic
"The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth."-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971)
To...
American law firm’s frivolous lawsuit against China targets the wrong defendant
When I first heard the recent news that Florida’s Berman Law Group had the chutzpah to sue China for trillions of dollars for allegedly...
The ideology of top candidates for US presidency
According to US media reports, the incumbent President Donald Trump has secured enough Republican Party support to launch a re-election campaign. Meanwhile, unexpectedly for...
Can these 6 worldwide Google search trends predict the 2020 US presidential election?
Whilst international observers are commonly deployed in fragile or new democracies in the developing world, elections in the developed world are viewed from outside,...
Washington- Beijing Moves: Conflict of Choices?
At the beginning of the 21st century, the relationship
between US and China have transformed rapidly as the latter surpassed the
former in being leader in...