What in the name of God prompts our pseudo-Churchills to play fast and loose with the Second World War? First of all, it was Theresa May saying that “not since” the Second World War had nerve agents been used in Europe. Then Boris Johnson did his poseur act against Russia under the wing of a…
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb it into peace” (Michael Franti)[2] David and Goliath in an upside-down world President Donald Trump doesn’t seem to share Georges Clemenceau’s view that “war is too serious a matter to be left to the military”. All the more so, perhaps, since the French statesman…
So who is patronising who by acknowledging the other’s existence? Does Trump Actually Think He Is Honouring Him? What can be said of the forthcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.. There was a time when most of the world would have agreed with this assessment, as little irritants like North Korea are generally…
On March 28th, CNN headlined “An unheard-of problem: The President can’t find a lawyer” and reported that: Five large law firms are passing on the opportunity to represent the President after a shakeup last week on his private defense team and as he anticipates giving possible testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Well-known Washington lawyers cited several reasons…
Despite using electronic voting machines in its own elections, the US is adamant that the Congo forsake this technology in its upcoming ones owing to what Washington hypocritically alleges is its unreliable nature, and it’s even pressuring foreign donors to withhold aid until Kinshasa capitulates to this demand because it believes that paper ballots would…
Few geoeconomic game-changers are more spectacular than yuan-denominated future crude oil contracts – especially when set up by the largest importer of crude on the planet. And yet Beijing’s media strategy seems to have consisted in substantially play down the official launch of the petro-yuan at the Shanghai International Energy Exchange. Still, some euphoria was…
