Day: April 29, 2020

BRI-Led Regionalization Rolls On as Gwadar Port Opens Afghan Trade to the World

April 29, 2020 Opinion

The successful opening of Gwadar Port to Afghanistan lays the basis for expanding this trade network to Central Asia and Russia via N-CPEC+, which sets a positive example for how BRI-led regionalizati…

What’s Going on with Kim Jong-un?

April 29, 2020 Opinion

Recently, we reported about the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on 11 April 2020 and a modest celebration of the Day of the Sun. Since then Kim Jong-un has no…

A New Global Order? How Coronavirus Will Change the World Forever

April 29, 2020 Opinion

The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World Wa…

The Pentagon’s Pandemic Posture Is All at Sea

April 29, 2020 Opinion

According to the official U.S. manual Defense Support of Civil Authorities of 2019, “The mission of the Department of Defense in a pandemic is to preserve U.S. combat capabilities and readiness and to…

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again

April 29, 2020 Opinion

Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army,…

“Don’t Trace Me, Bro” — Just Say No to Contact Tracing

April 29, 2020 Opinion

Contact Tracing? Really? That’s the next big government program to push for total surveillance over our lives. Now the real fallout from the Coronapocalypse comes to light. The very people who created…

US a Washed-up Empire

April 29, 2020 Opinion

The harder they come, the harder they fall, as reggae singer Jimmy Cliff once put it. No nation has come harder than the United States with its history of relentless wars and mass destruction, nauseat…

Global Arms Spending Tops $1.9 Trillion as Fight Against COVID-19 Is Starved of Resources

April 29, 2020 Opinion

Amid the grim worldwide tally of over 3 million confirmed coronavirus cases and roughly 220,000 deaths—along with the scientific certainty that both figures grossly underestimate the real toll of the …