Vietnamese Communist Chief Nguyen Phu Trong Leaves Behind A Weak, Fractious...
By Zachary Abuza On July 19, Vietnamese state media reported that Nguyen Phu Trong, the long-serving general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, had died after an illness. The report of...
View ArticleDrought, Flood, And Rice Security In Central Thailand – Analysis
By Phanwin Yokying and Arunee Promkhambut Rice continues to play a fundamental role in income generation and ensuring food security for millions of households in Thailand and abroad. As a key global...
View ArticleProject 2025’s Plan To Gut Medicare And Medicaid – OpEd
Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage...
View ArticleClooney, Holt, And Others Push Ageist Tropes Against Biden Instead Of...
Recently, actor George Clooney was published in the New York Times editorial section. His piece was a puerile indictment against President Biden, pleading with him to drop out of the race against...
View ArticleMilei’s New Monetary Regime For Argentina – OpEd
By Nicolás Cachanosky In a significant legislative move, Argentine President Javier Milei has successfully passed his omnibus law, known as “Ley Bases.” This marks a crucial milestone in his...
View ArticleNewsom Continues Dreadful COVID-19 Crackdown – OpEd
On March 3, 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, “deploying every level of governmentto help identify cases and slow the spread of this coronavirus.” In April, the...
View ArticleUkraine Military Situation: Russian Combat Formation Continue Advance In...
By Can Kasapoğlu Battlefield Assessment Last week, Russian combat formations advanced in several locations in eastern Ukraine, most notably in the direction of the city of Pokrovsk. Russian forces...
View ArticleNatural Rights And The American Border – OpEd
By Aaron Sobczak The American immigration system is far fromeasily navigable. Those who proudly declare that they are “all for immigration as long as it is legal” may be unfamiliar with how convoluted...
View ArticleConvulsions In Kenya – Analysis
By Gurjit Singh The general election in Kenya in 2022 saw the victory of President Ruto, who defeated Raila Odinga in an alliance backed by former president Uhuru Kenyatta. This time, there were no...
View ArticleBeyond Saber-Rattling: Does Pakistan’s N-Capable JF-17 Fleet Warrant A Shift...
Analysts are concerned that Pakistan might be equipping its JF-17 fighter jets with nuclear-armed cruise missiles While much attention is given to the nuclear tensions between the US and Russia, or...
View ArticleIs US Aid To Ukraine Driven By A Brutal Logic? – Analysis
By Dominic Tierney (FPRI) -- Last week, at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington D.C., the United States and its NATO partners agreed to support Ukraine “on its irreversible path to full...
View ArticleElon Musk Or The ‘Second Oppenheimer’: A Roadmap To US Supremacy In Space – OpEd
The world, now saturated with nuclear bombs ready for launch, stands on the brink of witnessing the deployment of laser and nuclear weapons in space. Elon Musk, in collaboration with the Pentagon, is...
View ArticleBlinken To Meet Chinese Counterpart In Laos
By Alex Willemyns U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the Laotian capital of Vientiane during next week’s ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting there, he...
View ArticleZelenskyy Attends UK Cabinet Meeting, Renews Calls To Allow Strikes Inside...
(EurActiv) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed British government ministers on Friday (19 July), a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister...
View ArticleRevisiting President Obama’s Presidential Portrait By Kehinde Wiley, The...
With President Joe Biden's prospects of staying in the 2024 presidential race being hotly debated, some have suggested that Michelle Obama could replace him. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll of registered...
View ArticleRussia’s Space Nukes Threaten Peaceful Exploration: A Call For New Arms...
Russia's veto of the United Nations Security Council resolution to ban nuclear weapons in outer space marks a significant escalation in the militarization of space. This action driven by Russia's...
View ArticleNavigating Turbulence: India-China Rivalry Heats Up In The Indian Ocean – OpEd
As the shadow of the 2020 Ladakh crisis looms large, the India-China rivalry has shifted from the towering Himalayas to the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. In a strategic game of cat and mouse, both...
View ArticleThe Future Of Gaza And Ukraine Under Trump – OpEd
As the 2024 U.S. presidential election approaches, the geopolitical landscape is increasingly influenced by the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House. His administration's foreign policy...
View ArticleUN Denounces Foreign Actors For Prolonging Sudan’s Conflict
As Sudan’s civil war drags on, experts are pointing to the role played by outside interests in prolonging it and making it deadlier. “There’s a lot of resources and money that is being invested in...
View ArticleRegulations Block Malaysians From Seeing Pope In Singapore
By Vanitha Nadaraj (UCA News) -- Soosai Soosai had about 80 eager Catholics signing up with his travel agency two months ago to go to Singapore, to attend the visiting Pope Francis’ Mass in the island...
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