There are moments in the long march of international affairs when a summit, otherwise destined for the archives of routine diplomacy, acquires the resonance of a turning point. The BRICS Summit convened
Little would change for U.S. intelligence should Kamala Harris win the Democratic nomination for president and prevail in the November elections. President Biden, wracked by plunging polls and mounting pressure from Democratic
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In my first analysis of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania I pointed out the possibility of a second shooter. Since my essay was published last Monday,
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At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, the focus was on Ukraine. In the Washington Declaration, the NATO leaders wrote, “Ukraine’s future is in NATO.” Ukraine formally applied to join NATO in
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“You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer”. ~ Professor Charles Kingsfield in the
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The United States came within a hair’s breadth of serious civil instability last weekend when former President Donald Trump narrowly survived assassination at a campaign rally near Butler, PA. The attempt on Trump’s life,
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There are milestones in every nation, and July 15 is one of those significant milestones for Türkiye. Türkiye witnessed a thwarted coup attempt on July 15, 2016, when a section of the
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Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown great empathy and support for the victims of the October 7 massacre, which he called “an
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Sometimes, I feel unhappy with my parents for giving birth to me and bringing me into this world, needlessly exposing me to its vagaries. The world would have lost nothing had I
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If only National Security Advisor Ajit Doval had deferred by a day his ‘smart move’ on Friday to dial up his White House counterpart Jack Sullivan following the threatening tongue-lashing by the
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An audio forensic analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate, also at Media Forensics, based on audio recorded in Butler
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A number of independent security experts have noted egregious failures in the Secret Service’s protection of Trump’s venue. Perhaps most notable was the failure to include the nearby buildings in the security
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Mukesh Ambani, a renowned Indian industrialist and reputedly the richest person in India and one of the wealthiest in the world, has recently conducted his son’s wedding celebration in Mumbai with unprecedented
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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ― Spencer Johnson With the Presidential elections in the United States looming ahead and the headlines in
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The lodestar of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 8-9, it must be the disclosure by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin
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There are times in life when you want to set aside complexity and return to the essence of things. Last week, I was on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, travelling from
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