Increasing strains between Pakistan and its traditional Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, is about more than Gulf states opportunistically targeting India’s far more lucrative market. At the heart of the tensions, that potentially complicate Pakistan’s economic recovery, is also India’s ability to enhance Gulf states’ capacity to hedge their bets amid…
Donald Trump’s brilliant granting of a presidential pardon to General Michael Flynn has caused a stir. Certainly, this great military man is being prosecuted for lying to Russiagate investigators (and not for other crimes he himself is alleged to have committed). He was trying to protect his boss from the intrusions of the judiciary; for…
US President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided that Iran was their worst enemy and that its nuclear and missile programs should be disrupted or destroyed by all means. Perhaps Trump considers Iran to be one of the reasons for his failure to be re-elected- or is it a “non-mission accomplished” to…
Dozens of airlines are pushing for a system that proves passengers have “complied with health requirements,” whether in the form of a test or a future vaccine. And with passengers weary of lockdowns, they just may get their draconian wish. But this is just a sampling of horrors to come as the global elite enact…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for “final punishment” for those behind the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, for the murder of whom the Iranians directly accused Israel and the United States behind it. In his statement, the Supreme Leader called Mohsen “an outstanding man and an outstanding scientist in the country’s…
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”— Philip K. Dick There is nothing worse than the politicization of science. If there is one thing that 2020 has taught us it is that we live within this basic framework. Science is nothing today if not political. But it’s beyond even…
