Biden, Trump Pledge Peaceful Transfer Of Power In January
By Ken Bredemeier U.S. President-elect Donald Trump returned triumphantly to Washington on Wednesday, pledging a smooth transition of power in January as he met for two hours at the White House with...
View ArticleFBI Arrests Alleged Leaker Of US Intelligence Related To Israel’s Attack...
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a man for allegedly leaking highly classified U.S. intelligence about Israel's plans for retaliation against Iran, according to U.S. media reports on November...
View ArticleBlinken: Israel Has Met Its Goals In Gaza, Time To End The War
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Israel has achieved its objectives in Gaza and that it is now time to pursue an end to the ongoing war. Blinken said that ending the...
View ArticleTrump’s Influence Looms Large Over The World – OpEd
By Mohamed Chebaro As the world digests the result of last week’s momentous US presidential election and prepares itself for a Trump 2.0 presidency, it is not difficult to imagine how the world might...
View ArticleArab Americans Have A Second Chance To Influence Trump – OpEd
After Donald Trump was sworn in as America’s 45th president in 2017, the Arab American community made the mistake of joining the Democrats’ attacks on him, refusing to meet him or engage with him on...
View ArticleRobert Reich: What Will You Do? – OpEd
Many of you are still in shock about what happened a week ago today. Some of you don’t even want to read a newspaper or hear the news. I get it. A few of you are coping with the catastrophe by...
View ArticleA Year After Offensive, Rebels Control Most Of Myanmar’s Rakhine State
One year after renewed fighting in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, the rebel Arakan Army controls some 80 percent of the state while the military junta’s airstrikes and its blockade of trade routes...
View ArticleStunning Defeat Should Prompt Soul-Searching Among Democrats – OpEd
By Alon Ben-Meir The Democrats’ stunning electoral defeat will be debated for months if not years. Recrimination and finger-pointing will abound. The Democrats must search their souls, carefully study...
View ArticleLiberal Arrogance And Hatred On Display After Trump Victory – OpEd
While Donald Trump is frequently called a fascist and is even compared to Adolph Hitler, some angry democrats are engaging in their own racist and eliminationist rhetoric in the wake of his impending...
View ArticleConflict In Amhara Region Threatens To Ignite Another Ethiopian War – Analysis
Gun battles in late October shattered the typical tranquility of Debark town, nestled in the foothills of the Semien mountains in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. Months of intense fighting in Ethiopia’s...
View ArticleMedicare ‘Advantage’ By The Numbers – Analysis
By Emma Curchin, Brandon Novick, and Peter Hart The quasi-privatized system called "Medicare Advantage," otherwise known as Part C, was created in 2003 as a means of expanding the role of private...
View ArticleWhat Do We Know About The Mufti Bill 2024? – Analysis
By Iman Muttaqin Yusof and Minderjeet Kaur A bill introduced in Malaysia’s parliament earlier this year to expand the powers of the muftis – Muslim legal experts – in the federal territories (FT) of...
View ArticleMore Countries Sign Declaration To Triple Nuclear Capacity
At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries - El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria and Turkey - have added their support for the tripling...
View ArticleMalaysia Energy Profile: Second-Highest Producer Of Petroleum And Other...
Malaysia is the second-highest producer of petroleum and other liquids in Southeast Asia and the fifth-highest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) globally in 2023. Malaysia is strategically...
View ArticleBiden’s Economic Time Bomb: A Warning To Trump – OpEd
By Daniel Lacalle The insane neo-Keynesian policies implemented by the Biden-Harris administration have created persistent inflation and record levels of debt with two objectives: to bloat Gross...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s Political Elite Fails To Gatekeep Change – Analysis
By Roshni Kapur The victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s 21 September 2024 presidential elections signals more than a domestic shift towards anti-incumbency and popular discontent with...
View ArticleTransatlantic Energy Security From A Baltic Perspective – Analysis
By Justina Budginaite-Froehly (FPRI) -- Years before Russia started its full-scale war against Ukraine, the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, correctly assessing the Russian threat,...
View ArticleJapan: Shigeru Ishiba Reconfirmed As Prime Minister Amid Political...
By Pratnashree Basu Japan’s domestic politics are experiencing a turbulent phase with a loss of public support for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power since the Second World...
View ArticleMoscow Hopes Bishkek Can Help Control Kyrgyz Migrant Workers In Russia –...
Popular militias made up of immigrants have been forming across the Russian Federation in cities with significant diaspora populations. These militias are composed of both citizen and non-citizen...
View ArticleMalaysia Protests New Philippine Maritime Laws For South China Sea Encroachment
By Iman Muttaqin Yusof Malaysia said it is protesting two new Philippine maritime laws that it contends encroach on its boundaries in the South China Sea, amid heightened regional tension over...
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