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Six steps to achieve Thailand 4.0
Bangkok - The Thai government is obsessed about Thailand 4.0 - making the Thai economy to become a digital economy. Is this possible? In...
Cleaning Up the Ganges: A Free Markets Alternative
My recent reading of an article detailing the amount of money squandered on the cleanup of the Ganges River prompted me to look into...
Gandhi’s prescription for the Trump-Korea Crisis
October 2nd is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, arguably the greatest Indian ever. It is celebrated as International Day of Peace and Non-Violence....
Trump vs. the Establishment: An intensified struggle
With a chain of resignations and dismissals of ranking White House staff, this summer has got particularly hot for Washington watchers. Overall, the reshuffle...
Independent Kurdistan: The Wretched and the Damned
On September 25, 2017, the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq held an independence referendum to determine the future of its quest...
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: The Long Collapse of American Foreign Policy
In recent months, a large army of pundits, academics, and other policy professionals have risen up to argue that Pres. Donald Trump’s foreign policy...
China’s Image Campaign: Green on the Outside, Black on the Inside?
“Green mountains and clear water are as good as mountains of gold and silver,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping as he underscored his country’s...
Is Democracy in crisis?
Democracy is facing a challenge to sustain as a form of government in the contemporary world. In 2008 economic crisis played a role in...
Women’s driving: Saudi ultra-conservatives lick their wounds
Saudi Arabia’s lifting of a ban on women’s driving raises a host of questions that transcend the issue of women’s rights and go to...
A right-wing party in the new German government
The reasons to vote for right-wing AfD are the problems, not the AfD itself. On one hand, the elections to the Bundestag on September...