America's Brexit
The landslide victory of anti-establishment candidate Donald Trump stands to be an American Brexit from the old world order and the watershed event heralding in a completely new paradigm of the US’...
View ArticleThe Second American Revolution
American voters initiated a Second American Revolution through their backing of Donald Trump and stand poised to fundamentally shake up the entire American establishment.
View ArticleDonald Trump: All the President’s Men and Enemies
President-elect Donald Trump has started to form his White House team, leading to a fresh batch of controversies and inspiring even more intense protests against him.
View ArticleEurope: Can They Deter Trump?
European leaders and top diplomats held emergency meetings in a flurry of unprecedented activity aimed at working out a collective response to the election of Donald Trump, who is seen as a threat to...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Patching Up a Cracked Legacy
President Obama paid a farewell trip to two continents in an anxious attempt to convince America’s worldwide allies that his successor will not dump his landmark initiatives and will still stand by...
View ArticleFrance: Who is More Right When the President is Wrong?
Following the US, France is entering a hot political season of its own as the right-wing conservatives choose their next candidate to face off with far-right leader Marine Le Pen at the next April...
View ArticleAustria: Right-Wing Redux
Austrians return to the polls early next month to redo last summer’s invalidated presidential election, giving Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer a second shot at coming out on top and riding the...
View ArticleMatteo Renzi: Referendum or Bust
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has put his entire political career on the line over next month’s constitutional referendum, which seeks to controversially strengthen the presidency and...
View ArticleVladimir Putin: New Windows Into the World
Russia's President Vladimir Putin made his annual appeal to the Duma highlighting his country's desire for rapprochement with the US under President-elect Donald Trump and the promising role that Asian...
View ArticleOPEC: The Paper Tiger Has Roared
Ending years of inaction the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has brushed off her image as a defunct body finally agreeing on oil production cuts for the first time since 2008 crisis, but...
View ArticlePark Geun-hye: President With No Country
Faced with mounting protests against her rule embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye is considering her resignation which can lead to drastic changes in country's relations with North Korea and...
View ArticleMatteo Renzi: Italian Drama to Be Continued
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after his signature constitutional reform initiative was dramatically defeated, throwing Italy’s political system back into its historic disorder and...
View ArticleAleppo: Double Veto on Terror
Russia and China blocked the latest UN Security Council resolution on Aleppo, which called for the suspension of the Syrian Arab Army’s operation in the city of Aleppo, with both powers arguing that it...
View ArticleDonald Trump: Chasing the Chinese Dragon
President-elect Donald Trump is sending clear signals that he will abide by his campaign promises to pursue a tough line in dealing with China, tweaking Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ to make it more about...
View ArticleAleppo-Palmyra: The Wild Pendulum of the Syrian War
The pendulum of victory swung back and forth this past week as the Syrian Arab Army liberated the significant city of Aleppo, while simultaneously losing the symbolic one of Palmyra.
View ArticleRex Tillerson: The 'Hand Of Moscow' in Washington?
Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson is under fire by political opponents who allege that his positive working relationship with Russian President Putin makes him ineligible to hold office.
View ArticleVladimir Putin in Japan: Turning the Page on World War II
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin paid a major visit to Japan this week in a sincere effort to strengthen relations and move past the lingering World War II dispute which has hitherto obstructed this.
View Article2016: The Battle for Global Leadership
The last year of Obama's presidency was marked by a dramatic reduction of US influence in geostrategic regions of the world such as the Mideast and the Asia-Pacific, while the role of major non-Western...
View Article2016: The Death of Mainstream Media
The passing year proved to be a total mess for the so-called "mainstream" or "respectable media", which failed in its partisan campaigns against Brexit, Donald Trump, and other important events,...
View Article2016: The World Shaken by Trump
Donald Trump's meteoric rise to power was totally unexpected and shocking to many experts, yet it revealed that there is a skyrocketing demand all across the world for new faces and new approaches to...
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