Americas

Demonstrations and Failures

If President Trump watched his prospective challengers debate, it certainly gave him cause for a Merrier Christmas and a Happy New Year!  The latter is a...

US vs China: “Era of great-power competition”

With the year 2019 already on the way out, its preliminary results can already be summed up, and one of the main takeaways is the...

Articles of Impeachment and the “Higher Law”: An Unexamined Legal Opportunity for the United States

As presented to the United States Senate, Articles of Impeachment concerning Donald J. Trump will focus upon various pertinent elements of Constitutional and statutory law. Still, at...

An anatomy of U.S. human rights diplomacy

Authors: Zhou Dong-chen & Paul Wang Over the past two weeks, the United States Congress has successively passed two acts concerning with Hong Kong human rights and...

It’s Back to “Rocket Man”: Trump Steadily expanding risks of a Nuclear war With North Korea

“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind, and not merely when the accident...

Two Cases, Minor and Major

News stories have Donald Trump being mocked by France's Macron at a Buckingham Palace reception for the NATO leaders meeting.  A nearby open mic caught the...

Why finance is at the heart of Chile’s crisis

The outsized role of unfettered finance in Chile has only worsened inequality that led to recent uprisings In September this year, less than a month before...

Donald Trump’s War on Truth and Justice: Crude, Unprecedented and Still Accelerating

"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."-Plato, The Republic For US President Donald J. Trump, policy making...

Fragmentation or Unity: A Core US Foreign Policy Choice

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”-Theodore Roethke (American poet) In essence, Donald Trump’s ideas about “America First” represent a retrograde vote for expanding...

Trump and Erdogan “mend fences” again

Presidents of the United States and Turkey Donald Trump and Recep Erdogan met for bilateral talks in Washington on November 13th . In the course of...

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