Quotation from an current NPR article on the effect of Brexit: “Matthias Matthijs, a political economist at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, says the U.S. had already been gravitating toward Germany long before the Brexit vote. Matthijs says the Germans have been taking the lead in a number of recent crises. “We’ve …
In an article in the May edition of Prospect magazine, Nicholas Shaxton makes a good point. The scandal exposed in the Mossack Fonseca revelations doesn’t only allow individuals to take money elsewhere to avoid tax. More importantly these havens allow them to escape the laws and rules of society they don’t like. Most of the …
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President Xi Jinping has tried to play down the escalating tension between China and the US, insisting in a recent speech that “there is no such thing as the Thucydides Trap”. He was citing the ancient Greek historian, who argued that whenever a new power emerges to vie for supremacy with an established one (as …
“President Obama’s remarks about human rights to President Castro are best appreciated in the context of the US’s longest-running vacation camp on the island, where visitors get to wear orange jump suits and funky metal jewellery while listening to rock music. So select are the premises that not even top-ranking US citizens are seen residing …
There are currently two militias, supposed to be fighting Assad in Syria in the death zone between Aleppo, Marea and the Turkish border. They are alleged to be “moderates” and the US government is funding them both simultaneously. Their names are “The Knights of Righteousness” (truly!) and the “Syrian Democratic Forces”. But instead of fighting …
