There Is No Winner in the Saudi-Canada Spat

There Is No Winner in the Saudi-Canada Spat

The expulsion of the Canadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, along with the freezing of trade relations between the two nations, is a dramatic development in the normally sleepy month of August. The Saudis were angered by perceived interference in their sovereignty, after Canada’s foreign ministry on Friday tweeted: “Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests…

Trump Wants to Free America From “Fool Trade” and Flip the Tables On the EU

Trump Wants to Free America From “Fool Trade” and Flip the Tables On the EU

Trump promised to replace what he termed as “fool trade” with fair trade when it comes to America’s economic partnerships, especially those with NAFTA and the EU. Tweeting from Singapore after the failed G7 Summit in Canada, the President wrote that “Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal”,…

Trump’s 1812 War Quip about Canada was Amusing but Embodied Exceptionalism

Trump’s 1812 War Quip about Canada was Amusing but Embodied Exceptionalism

Most Americans probably chuckled when they read the unverified reports that Trump blamed Canadians for burning down the White House during the War of 1812, though the quip itself embodied the exceptionalism that America is known for by selectively – and hypocritically – choosing one event in order to define a whole history of relations…

How Secular Is the West? The U.S., Britain, Australia… Secular Nation States, “So Help Me God”??

How Secular Is the West? The U.S., Britain, Australia… Secular Nation States, “So Help Me God”??

Of late there have been quite a number of know-it-all ‘academics’ ‘political analysts’ dollar earning civil society coming forward promoting the displacement of Buddhism enshrined in Article 9 to be replaced with a ‘secular’ constitution in Sri Lanka. They love to quote extensively how West is secular. If readers were wiser they would look for…

America’s News Media Foment Hate

America’s News Media Foment Hate

Like was shown in the movie 1984, in its two-minute section “Two Minutes of Hate,” the US-installed Ukrainian regime on Russia’s doorstep, will soon be debating a bill to make hate of Russia obligatory to be inculcated into all Ukrainian children. The Hill, on 9 November 2017, had the extraordinary courage to publish an opinion-piece that condemned the mainstream news-media’s…