How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips move and words come out. How do you know when the United States is at a disadvantage in a geopolitical quagmire? Our diplomats and Presidents want to ‘open up talks.’ Multiple times in the past four years the U.S. has used negotiating ceasefires in…
“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…
The designation of John Bolton as US National Security Advisor, in addition to the State Department being taken over by the CIA, sends an unmistakable signal that the Trump administration is gearing up for some serious mischief in the Middle East. In an ongoing administrative shakeup that has witnessed a number of controversial Trump appointees…
The US recently passed the so-called “Taiwan Travel Act”. This piece of legislation decrees that the American government should encourage bilateral visits between its officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, essentially formalizing a policy that has been unofficial for decades since the US switched its recognition of China’s legal government from Taipei to Beijing as part…
