Waging whack-a-mole: US Counter-terrorism operations across Africa
“They’re involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that’s just the ABCs...
The US Election Saga Continues – The Republican Convention
The festival of demagoguery, jingoism and cult of personality is over, and seldom has the public been deluged with such a combination. Is it...
Canaries in a coal mine: Erdogan coup and a tale of foreboding to the people of U.S & EU
Various and countless articles are being written about the Recep Tayyip Erdogan “Coup D’Etat” in Turkey last week, wherein supposedly the government was under...
The Presidential Election and U.S. Democracy
A belief in the paradigmatic nature of mature Western democracies is notoriously widespread. Nothing could be further from the truth. We, here in the...
President Santos Warns of Return to War if Peace Agreement is Voted Down
If the peace agreement that the government of Colombia has negotiated with armed revolutionaries is voted down by the Colombian people, the country would...
To impeach or not to impeach (Part II)
The Temer government Mr Temer’s interim government has been marked by aggressive contention measures, polemic decrees, an over homogeneous team of (arguably honest) ministers...
A brief analysis on the latest, confusing and conflicting events in Brazilian politics (Part I)
As the Upper House voted for Ms Rousseff’s suspension, many questions were raised. The people, the media, opportunist and well-intentioned public figures, they all...
The Mighty Have Fallen: American Space Dependency on Russia
The space program that gave the United States much-deserved global recognition is looking very different today. Somewhat embarrassingly, the United States relies on the...
Trump’s ‘spoiler’ campaign for the Clintons is turning into a fierce feud for the US Presidency
Over the years, the New York Billionaire property developer and TV personality famous for The Apprentice Donald Trump has made a number of remarks...
The Trump Doctrine Explained
“My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else.” Donald Trump’s recent speech discussed his...