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...
Donald Trump, Foreign Policy Incoherence and Inadvertent Nuclear War
"In a surrealist year....some cool clown pressed an inedible
mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president
at his prayers on the...
“Strategically brilliant” sellout: Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds
“At last
the world knows America as the savior of the world!” —U.S. president Woodrow Wilson
Turkey invaded the Syrian Arab Republic on October 9 following a...
AMLO’s Failed State
Mexico’s
challenges since transitioning from the hegemonic rule of the Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) 19 years ago have remained numerous and elusive:
rampant corruption; constant violation of...
When Democracy Becomes the Problem: Why So Many Millions Still Support Donald Trump
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty
skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac
For understanding the context of social
life, Honoré de Balzac...
A self-inflicted wound: Trump surrenders the West’s moral high ground
For the better part of a
century, the United States could claim the moral high ground despite allegations
of hypocrisy because its policies continuously contradicted its...
Trump’s effects on diplomacy
No longer has Trump’s haphazard behaviour persisted, more will be easy
for his administration to enact actions against China, Iran and Taliban. The
state department is...
Trump Cannot Be Impeached Over Ukrainegate, But Pelosi and Schiff Can Be Charged Criminally
Pursuant to United States v.
Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936), the U.S. Supreme Court issued
an unmistakable clear edict concerning the foreign affairs powers...
Trump Impeachment and a Boris Brexit
What could it be if not the chill of the Autumn air and the thought of
winter -- some people love it of course with...