Politics

The authoritarian have always been accustomed to listening to those who protect them from external or regional powers, making a foolish assumption based on their ability to maneuver and dodge with them and between them.  So when countries got tired…

MAGA 2.0 is poised to be more geopolitically assertive than MAGA 1.0. Trump threatened that the US might retake control of the Panama Canal if it remains under indirect partial Chinese management and continues to charge the US what he…

Japan has its sights set on renewable energy producing 40 to 50 percent of its electricity by 2040, with another 20 percent coming from nuclear power, according to a new draft of its basic energy policy. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Japan is the second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

After decades of hiatus, Bangladesh and Pakistan have made a major step toward a new era of regional cooperation in South Asia, riddled with suspicion, distrust, disrespect, and lack of neighbourliness among the eight countries. When Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad…

Too many decades have been lost to the myth that liberal democracies will deliver. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has consolidated what appears to be a swing towards citizens voting right-wing, authoritarian politicians into…

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become one of the most well known and oft quoted poems of the 20th and 21st centuries.(1) In the…

Some consider that the Ukrainian conflict began on February 24, 2022, just as others consider that the conflict in Gaza began on October 7, 2023. At most, they can, on both sides, admit that there was a prior American provocation…

On December 16th, the DAANES announced an initiative for intra-Syrian dialogue and expressed readiness for cooperation with the transitional government in Damascus. RIC’s full translation of the 10-point proposal:   “With the fall of the tyrannical Baathist regime, Syria has…

Ten days before Donald Trump will be inaugurated in Washington DC on January 20, there will be another inauguration in Caracas. Two contenders claim they will receive the Venezuelan presidential sash. By Roger D. Harris Nicolás Maduro’s claim to the…

Few can afford to be massively tariffed by the US, let alone sanctioned, and most aren’t willing to burn their bridges with the US for ideological reasons at the expense of their immediate economic interests. Indian External Affairs Minister Dr.…