Sri Lanka: Bread And Butter Issues Dominate Presidential Election Campaign –...
Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is standing as an "Independent" in the September 21 Presidential election, is highlighting the way he led Sri Lanka's recovery from the unprecedented...
View ArticleMacron’s Barnier Gamble May Have A Hefty Personal Cost – OpEd
By Zaid M. Belbagi The appointment of Michel Barnier as the prime minister of France last week came after a prolonged political deadlock, with President Emmanuel Macron at the helm. France has been...
View ArticleWhat Indonesia Can Gain From The Russia East Asia Forum – OpEd
The Russia East Asia Forum (REF), an initiative by Russia to strengthen ties with Asia-Pacific countries, represents a crucial platform for advancing the region's economic, political, and energy...
View ArticleChina’s Structural Outflow Of Foreign Investment Remains A Serious Challenge...
By Yang Xite In the process of stabilizing the economy in China this year, two major microeconomic groups have attracted significant attention, namely private enterprises and foreign enterprises. The...
View ArticleIndonesia’s President-Elect Prabowo Steps Back From Widodo’s Constitutional...
By Liam Gammon With six weeks left in Indonesia’s presidential office, Joko Widodo continues to try tie up loose ends before handing over power to his successor, Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, on...
View ArticleKosovo: The Closure Of Parallel Institutions And Its Ramifications – OpEd
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti’s consistent efforts to assert Kosovo’s sovereignty over the predominantly ethnic Serb municipalities do not bolster Kosovo’s independence. Instead,...
View ArticleElection Upheaval And Volkswagen Woes Show Germany’s Ruinous Price For Being...
Germany was hit with a double whammy this week as proof of the ruinous price its people are paying for their feckless government’s role as the United States lapdog. First, there was...
View ArticleUS Military To Leave Iraq – OpEd
In August, the news arrived that United States military forces and assets had been removed from Niger. Writing about this development, Iopinedon August 6 that “the US would be well served to start...
View ArticleVucic’s Delicate Balancing Act – Analysis
By Dragan Stavljanin (RFE/RL) -- On the sidelines of an economic forum in Vladivostok on September 4, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin made it clear to Russian President Vladimir Putin...
View ArticleRalph Nader: His Delusions Lead To Trumpian Dangers – OpEd
Even if I have to say so as co-author with Mark Green of “WRECKING AMERICA: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” I know of no book on Trump to be as practically useful for the 2024...
View ArticleBangladesh: Rise Of Unapologetic Jihadism – Analysis
By Sanchita Bhattacharya On September 5, 2024, a 22-year-old man was beaten by a mob on the premises of the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Khulna Police in the Sonadanga area, over a social...
View ArticleDire Warnings Of Regional War … But Is Anybody Listening? – OpEd
By Baria Alamuddin If the Gaza protagonists succeed in grudgingly inching toward a ceasefire, despite most of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conflict objectives remaining unmet, the...
View ArticleHow Corporate News Has Tried To Numb Americans To The Horrors In Gaza – OpEd
As the Gaza war enters its 12th month with no end in sight, the ongoing horrors continue to be normalized in U.S. media and politics. The process has become so routine that we might not recognize how...
View ArticleIndia: A Vanishing Red In Telangana – Analysis
By Deepak Kumar Nayak On September 5, 2024, six Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed in an encounter during a combing operation by the Security Forces (SFs) in the forest...
View ArticleRon Paul: The First Steps Toward A Liberty Platform – OpEd
Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US...
View ArticleThe Surprising Ways Inventions And Ideas Spread In Ancient Prehistory – OpEd
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. The human capacity for invention is unparalleled. We have developed technologies that have...
View ArticleEvolution Of Live Reporting And Interviewing Techniques In Contemporary...
A Changing Landscape The emergence of mobile technology, social media, and high-speed internet has democratized live reporting, allowing journalists to broadcast from almost anywhere with minimum...
View ArticleWhat Does The Catholic Church Teach About Immigration And Immigrants? – Analysis
By Daniel Payne Long a champion of immigrants, particularly those fleeing war-torn countries and impoverished regions, Pope Francis last month delivered some of the clearest words in his papacy yet in...
View ArticleThere Was A Housing Bubble In Atlanta Prior To The Crash – OpEd
Kevin Erdmann argued in a Washington Postcolumnon Thursday that the main problem with U.S. housing policy is over-restrictive lending rules from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While there may be some...
View ArticleEnabling A ‘Brutus’ To Slay The Elon Musk ‘Caesar’ – OpEd
In theWashington Poston Monday, the headlines read:Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators. Former U.S. Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, in the BritishGuardiannewspaper, published a...
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