Iran and North Korea highlight pitfalls of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy

Donald J. Trump’s hitherto failed ‘maximum pressure’ approach to Iran, as well as for that matter North Korea, begs the question what the US president’s true...

Cohen retaliating against Trump: Disclosure or lies

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has painted a dull picture of Trump’s character, but the effect of his testimony on Trump’s fate remains unclear.  The other...

Why President Trump Should Reform The Family Court System

Now that the Trump Administration has successfully prepared, filed and achieved historic criminal justice reform, something which his predecessors could not get done, or even made...

China’s stance on the Venezuela’s crisis and beyond

Since January 23, President of Venezuela's National Assembly Juan Guaido was sworn in as the country's "interim president". The US, Brazil and many other countries have...

How American Presidential Contenders Talk About Russia

Can American politicians talk sensibly about Russia? Major statements in the last year by leading contenders for the next presidential election in 2020 are not encouraging:...

US not to tolerate independent countries

Commenting on the US policy towards Venezuela, Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam says This has been the aim of successive US governments to roll back the...

Crisis in Venezuela: An Analysis of the United States’ Interference

As the crisis in Venezuela escalates uncontrollably for the people, the politicians are in the centre of legitimising themselves as the president of the...

Three Horizons of Brazil–Russia Relations

Authors: Fernando César Costa Xavier and Alexander Korolkov* Almost a month has passed since the inauguration of the new President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro. He...

Has The Trump Administration Lost All Compassion Within Its Immigration System?

To be sure, if there was any major reason to support the Donald Trump Presidential Administration, one of the chief reasons would be that...

America’s SOTU from a Billionaire President and Inequality

When Thomas Piketty published his book "Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century" five years ago, it was a sensation.  He had analyzed historical concentrations of...

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