Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
Only a few days ago, it looked like former president and current Republican nominee Donald J. Trump would be on the hook for more than half a billion dollars, after he lost
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Political ethics requires leaders to meet higher standards than would be necessary for private life. They may have less of a right to privacy than ordinary citizens do, or no right to
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On 15 February 2024, Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency) sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion, Kushner talked
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Though peace continued to prevail in Sri Lanka through 2023, the politico-economic crises that engulfed the country in 2022, persisted. There was, however, relative improvement in the overall situation. No terrorism-linked fatality
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On March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt title: “The Army Stands Ready.” Schill cut his teeth in
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Twenty-one years have elapsed since the U.S. army invaded Iraq under the pretext of rooting out weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and “spreading democracy.” However, the absence of such weapons, the fiasco
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Miami – Haiti, today the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, was once the richest back in 1800. How did this happen? In those long distant days, the West indies was the equivalent
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By the time President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had arrived in Singapore in the second week of July 2022, a few days after fleeing Sri Lanka, he firmly believed that then Prime Minister Ranil
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The culture of the Israeli military was shaped in October 1973, when Egypt and Syria attacked without warning. Importantly, the assault represented a direct threat to American interests. Egypt and Syria were
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The way things are going in Haiti, violent gangs might not only gain an official government role; they might actually become the government. Following the gangs’ seizure of critical infrastructure and the resignation of Prime Minister
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Ukraine’s attempt to interfere in Russia’s Presidential election has backfired. Putin’s internal support is stronger than ever. The geniuses in NATO and in US intelligence simply failed to understand Russia or the Russian election
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HARRY TRUMAN’S COVER OF ISRAELI AIRSPACE Does the Islamic World have any responsibility for the incessant and horrific injustice being committed by Israel towards the Palestinian people? Is it because Harry Truman
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With the announcement of the poll schedule for the 2024 parliamentary election, there is palpable excitement and expectation among the countrymen about the shape of things to happen in India after the
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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES THE US OF DEPLOYING MILITARY BASES NEAR RUSSIAN BORDER On February 21, 2023, in a speech to the federal assembly in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United
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There are no ‘silver linings’ in a conflict like that in Myanmar, where the civil war continues to inflict devastating effects on the country’s society and economy three years after the military
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