Libya and the essence of the agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC countries
L ibya is planning to double its crude oil production next year. Although it has been an OPEC member since 1962, as well...
Turkey and Russia Find Common Ground While War in Syria Keeps Raging
T he Syrian civil war has been raging for close to six years, fueled by a tangled web of alliances, the regional ambitions...
Enriching the Elite: A Failure of Democracy
I t is a conceit of democracy that opposing parties, after months of trying to convince the public the other would be a...
Deep State Rebelling Against Donald Trump’s Cleaning Up Of The Judiciary
O ne of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises was to clean up the judiciary, ie, one of the 3 main branch pools of...
Considerations on the East Turkestan – Xinjiang issue
X injiang’s demographic and anthropic complexion is more complex than we tend to currently believe: according to China's 2000 census-taking, 40% of the...
The Iran Missile Imbroglio – Change or Chaos
I ran test-fired a missile and the U.S. government went ballistic. It put Iran 'on notice' -- a phrase meaning little but with...
The travel ban – how the Trump critics are doing their Math – 2+2 = 22?
L et’s start from the most recent happening. Bill O’Reilly interviews Trump for Fox news. He asks him ‘Do you respect Putin’? Trump...
Jacksonians may want isolation, but risk leading U.S. to war
J acksonian school of thought is winning today in U.S. The starkest indicator of that is that the President of the U.S. is...
Trump’s controversial Executive Order: Why the judiciary could create history
O n January 27th, 2017 which ironically happens to be Holocaust Remembrance Day, US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order entitled ‘Protecting...
The global strategy of General Khalifa Haftar
T he agreement between the Libyan factions signed in Morocco on December 17, 2015 has not been implemented yet. It implied an enlightened...