What William Graham Sumner Would Say About Trump And Vance’s Tariff Rhetoric...
By Kody Jensen William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a professor, sociologist, clergyman, and advocate of laissez faire, the gold standard, and free trade. His book What Social Classes Owe to Each...
View ArticleBank Of Italy Governor Urges ECB To Cut Rates Further
By Alessia Peretti (EurActiv) -- Bank of Italy Governor Fabio Panetta urged the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday to consider further rate cuts, saying the current restrictive monetary policy...
View Article‘Victory Plan’ Or Deadly Delusion? Zelensky’s Perilous Five-Point Plan – OpEd
By Carus Michaelangelo It’s finally here: Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Victory Plan,” furtively touted for weeks as Zelensky sought, unsuccessfully, to peddle it to world leaders. Until now, all...
View ArticleDevelopment Prospects Of The BRICS Mechanism’s Attraction For Regional Powers...
By Zhou Chao The new BRICS Summit was held in Kazan, Russia, from October 22 to 24, 2024. This was the first summit since the historic expansion of the BRICS cooperation mechanism the previous year....
View ArticlePromises And Perils Of The Future Made In Australia Act – Analysis
By Marina Yue Zhang, Roy Green, and Mark Dodgson Australia’s industrial policy is undergoing a significant transformation with the introduction of the Future Made in Australia Act (FMiA). This policy...
View ArticleNavigating A New America: Harris Or Trump, Europeans Need A Collective US...
By Célia Belin Every time America changes president, European leaders work hard at establishing a close personal relationship, only to lament when the pendulum swing of politics strikes again. This...
View ArticleAsia’s Economies Can Embrace Services To Boost Growth And Productivity –...
The Asia-Pacific region prospered by becoming the source of more than half of global factory output, but another transformation to higher-productivity services has the potential to further support...
View ArticleDeciphering Turkey’s Africa Policy – Analysis
By Peter Fabricius President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Türkiye may not be quite ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’ as Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union in 1939 after its...
View ArticlePRC Adapts Meta’s Llama For Military And Security AI Applications – Analysis
By Sunny Cheung In September, the former deputy director of the Academy of Military Sciences (AMS), Lieutenant General He Lei (何雷), called for the United Nations to establish restrictions on the...
View ArticleBishop Defends St. Michael’s Prayer At Mass: ‘The Devil Has No Influence’
By Jonah McKeown Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, this week responded to a letter in the Wall Street Journal from a priest objecting to the praying of the St. Michael prayer at the end...
View ArticleIndonesia: Five Unexpected Things Prabowo Did In His First Week As President
By Shailaja Neelakantan When Prabowo Subianto was sworn in as president of Indonesia on Oct. 20, he was coming off of five years serving as defense minister – a performance that earned mixed reviews....
View ArticleEuropean Commission Highlights Georgia’s ‘Backsliding’
By Irakli Machaidze (Eurasianet) -- As the dispute over Georgia’s parliamentary voting results plays out, an annual report issued by the European Commission is effectively writing off Tbilisi’s...
View ArticleTaiwan Expects Ukraine-Tested Weapons From US Amid Rising Chinese Pressure
By William Yang Taiwan is expected to receive several weapons that have been battle tested in Ukraine from the United States over the next few years. Analysts say those weapons can help bolster...
View ArticleChina Honors Late General Linked To Cultural Revolution Cannibalism
By Yitong Wu and Kit Sung The ruling Chinese Communist Party has enshrined the ashes of a general who presided over a Cultural Revolution massacre that included cannibalism of those deemed “enemies of...
View ArticleUkraine’s Positions Deteriorate Across Front Lines; Russian Military...
By Can Kasapoğlu 1. Ukrainian Drones Strike Chechnya On October 29 Ukrainian combat drones attacked the Russian Special Forces University in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. The university, founded...
View ArticleImpact Of US Presidential Election On South Asia – Analysis
Continuity rather than change is foreseen In the post-World War II era, relations between the US and South Asian countries have been both close and growing, as the US had replaced Britain as the...
View ArticleStrengthening Ties: President Prabowo’s Diplomatic Mission To The US – Analysis
A New Era for Indonesia-USA Diplomacy In November 2024, President Prabowo Subianto’s visit to the United States represents a strategic initiative to elevate Indonesia’s partnership with the world’s...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Why Musk Predicts Lina Khan Will Be ‘Fired Soon’ – OpEd
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and the richest man in the world, tweeted this week that Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan “will be fired soon.” Musk is hardly the only billionaire upset by...
View ArticleDeepening Rift In India-Canada Diplomatic Relations – Analysis
The diplomatic rift between India and Canada has escalated again with accusations of Indian involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada taking a new turn. On November 2, the...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Memorial To The ICJ: More Evidence On Israel’s Genocide – OpEd
The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset had signalled its intent on crippling and banishing the sole agency of humanitarian worth...
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