When a former CIA director accused Bill Clinton of being in-league with the KGB The 1992 US Presidential election was one that the incumbent George H.W. Bush was ‘supposed’ to win. After the former CIA director served as Vice President for eight years behind a personally popular Ronald Reagan, 1988 […]
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Trump Only Has Himself to Blame For Falling Yuan - Yet a $500 Billion Tariff is on The Table
Donald Trump has lashed out at China and the European Union for allegedly “manipulating” their currencies against a bullish US Dollar. While the Yuan is down by 7.6% against the Dollar since the end of the first financial quarter of 2018, the Euro has been surprisingly stable but is nevertheless […]
Child Sex Abuse Can Only be Prevented if The Culture of Neo-Liberal Corporate Blackmail Ends
Horrific stories of child sex abuse in European nations and elsewhere continue to dominate headlines from a variety of perspectives. Some blame clashes of mutually alien cultures where children fall victim to these social trends while others blame a culture of vulgarity and a libertine mentality among wider society. Others […]
Israel’s Influence in The US is Declining Yet Palestine is Suffering More Than Ever
From the USS Liberty to The Iraq War In spite of its small geographical size and population, Israel’s influence on US policy making and on US media editorial lines has been long known. For some Americans, the extent of Israel’s influence on US decision making first became clear during US […]
Russia’s World Cup Proves Success is The Best Revenge
No World Cup in history was so derided before a single player took to the pitch as was Russia’s 2018 World Cup. With some western politicians suggesting the event should be moved to another country or cancelled outright and with the UK leadership in particular openly boycotting the event, those […]
Flexibility is a Vastly More Important Virtue Than Consistency - Both in Geopolitics and in Daily Life
In a rapidly changing world there exists a clear tendency among humans to cling on to that which is familiar and that which once was true. The desire to want to maintain that which is seen as set in stone during times of vast political, social and economic change is […]
Russian World Cup Hailed as “Best Ever”
The President of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Gianni Infantino has praised the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia as the most successful in history. Speaking to reporters days before the tournament final between France and Croatia, Infantino said, “Since [a] couple of years I was saying that this […]
Without a Federal-Parliamentary System The Philippines Will Remain a Sham Democracy
Democracy is taken from the ancient Greek word δημοκρατία (dēmokratía) which simply means rule of the people. In order to facilitate this, many different systems have been implemented over the years. Among the most democratic systems ever to be employed was the years with varying degrees of pragmatic success and varying […]
The Russo-Saudi Oil Agreement Has Convinced China to Help Venezuela in an Hour of Need
OPEC+: Good for China in the long term - a wake-up call to a Russophobic US in the short term The recently emerged OPEC+ format which since 2016 has seen Russia and Saudi Arabia work together to stabilise the price of crude oil on international markets has now become an […]
It’s Not Just Trump, China’s Also Making The WTO Irrelevant
China’s pioneering initiative to institutionalize trade rules and dispute mechanisms for its New Silk Road is especially impactful in making the World Trade Organization irrelevant in and of itself, but when combined with Trump’s recent moves away from this globalist body, it has the effect of dealing what might be […]
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