The Intellectual Doomsday Clock: 30 Seconds to Midnight?
As someone who has dedicated his entire professional career to higher education, to engaging young minds and striving to advance new thinking across a...
U.S.-Turkey relations: From close friendship to conflict of interests
Relations between the U.S. Turkey have strained since the failed July
2016 coup in Turkey. Now, the most important reasons for the tension is
Washington's strong...
The coup in Bolivia shines yet more dark light on America
Just when one might have thought things geopolitical might be about to
turn for the better, which means the worldwide geopolitical nightmare
engineered by the U.S....
Floods, Fires, Coups and Impeachment Make a Busy Week
Venice is flooded. The water is hip high in St. Mark's Square
threatening the church and the expensive shops and restaurants on its
perimeter. The mayor...
Leftists make a comeback in Latin America
In Argentina and Uruguay, leftist candidates won the elections and Evo
Morales could maintain his position as the president of Bolivia, but in Chile,
people have...
Democrats take a gamble on Trump’s impeachment
Despite all ups and downs, Democrats finally brought
impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump to the House of
Representatives, a move which made Trump’s prediction come...
Russian Involvement in Venezuela is Troublesome for Western Hemisphere
The U.S.
Energy Information Administration (EIA) “projects that natural gas consumption in
Asia will continue to outpace supply.” With the future growth of natural gas
consumption concentrated...
Poetry and Rancor: Donald Trump, America and the “Hollow Men”
"We are the hollow men, We are the stuffed
men"-T S Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Donald Trump did not emerge ex nihilo, from nothing. He...
Mexico First?
Last week Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)
accused Richard Glenn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, of...
Donald Trump, War and the Shape of Chaos
“And we are
here as on a darkling plain, Swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where
ignorant armies clash by night”. -Matthew Arnold, Dover
Beach
With the...