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Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold….
Core legal arguments to preserve, protect and
defend the United States from the presidency of Donald J. Trump
Whatever the still-expanding bill of particulars,
Donald Trump's principles...
Foreign Affairs of the Absurd: The Strange Case of Abkhazia 2019
While very few Americans (and Western
Europeans for that matter) would be hard pressed to successfully locate the
Republic of Abkhazia on a map (it’s the...
Algeria’s political impasse: What is next?
Seven months after a wave of protests began in
Algeria; people are still pilling onto the streets of the Algerian capital
“Algiers” and other cities nationwide...
Politics as Reflection: Even in an Election Year, Real Change Must Come From “Below”
"What is the good of passing from one untenable position to another,
of seeking justification always on the same plane?"-Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Again and again, in...
Undestanding the Gulf States: The European Perspective
Mitchell Belfer is President of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre, a
Rome-based organization that is engaged in building political and economic
bridges between European countries and the...
The puzzle in the U.S. Democratic Party is complicated
Although polls in the United States show Joe Biden outnumbering other
Democratic candidates, Biden is still concerned about the likelihood of rising
US senator Bernie Sanders....
Indonesia abandoning its Capital ?
I have
almost always lived in capital cities. I was born in New Delhi, resided in
London, Prague (before Czechoslovakia split in 1993), Budapest, Rome, Bonn
(long...
Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics
“Conscious of his
emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In
vain.”-Karl Jaspers, “Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time”...
Creating a Future: Nationalism, Patriotism and Global “Oneness”
"What does not benefit the entire hive is no
benefit to the bee."-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Sometimes, truth can
be both counter-intuitive and bitterly ironic. Although Americans have...
Protest: The King is dead, long live the king
Protest is back on the front burner.
Protesters occupy streets in cities ranging from Hong Kong and Moscow to
Khartoum and Algiers. They would likely do...