After campaigns from multiple free speech activists, hi-tech innovators and artists ranging from world-wide-web inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Paul McCartney of The Beatles, the Parliament of the European Union has rejected new copyright proposals and has sent the entire issue back to the drawing board will new and revised proposals will […]
The Polish-led “Three Seas Initiative” aims to streamline a North-South Corridor from Norway to Greece through the creation of the “Via Carpathia” trade route that would prospectively link with the “Baltic Ring” in order to connect the Arctic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea. The southeastern Polish village of Jasionka hosted the […]
History has often been plagued by irrational leaders, irrational cultures and irrational nations. While the US is often derided in these terms, this is thankfully not the case. Based simply on the sheer firepower which the US superpower possesses, the world as we know it would have likely already been […]
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has made no secret of his severe disappointment with the current government of President Lenin Moreno. The current leader has not only failed to live up to the radicalism his name would suggest, but has failed to live up to Correa’s expectations that Moreno would be […]
There’s no better moment than now for Mexico to embrace multipolarity by teaming up with China and possibly constructing a Pacific-Caribbean rail corridor across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, but such a project has its limitations and isn’t anything to get too excited about at this time, let alone blindly jump […]
The old adage “timing is everything in comedy” can easily apply to tragi-farce and there is no better tragi-farce than the continuing saga of Sergey and Julia Skripal – two alleged victims of a nerve agent attack so deadly that it appears to have bestowed the alleged victims with little […]
AMLO finally wins For the first time in history, the Mexican people have elected a President from outside of the liberal/centre-right mainstream. But far from being a political outsider, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (or AMLO as he is affectionately known in Mexico) is a political veteran. For five years he […]
Oil realities in 2018 Donald Trump has Tweeted about a phone call to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman where the elderly monarch is said to have agreed to increase the production of oil to 2 million barrels per day so as to lower fuel prices in the United States, the world’s […]
On paper, the current protectionist trade war that Donald Trump has launched against China and the EU appear similar. Both China and Europe have trade surpluses with the United States that the US President has described as “screwing” the US economy. But while Trump has targeted rival China with tariffs […]
A recent Reuters report about the supposed prevalence of so-called “fake news” ahead of Mexico’s upcoming election this weekend quotes an anonymous Facebook employee who alleged that people are being paid to like, share, and comment on posts, which disturbingly suggests that the company might take punitive action against users […]