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USA: Reflections on Another Election

Having been mostly silent about American imperialism and the havoc that it wreaks, mainstream Western commentators were suddenly very vocal about the American election. They all voiced their opinions and made their predictions. Geopolitical knowledge, on the other hand, was…

Trump 2.0 World and Sheikh Hasina’s Sinking Boat in Bangladesh

Just days after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in the US presidential election, Ambassador Humayun Kabir, a credible commentator on foreign affairs, said in an interview with an independent newspaper Prothom Alo that the bilateral relationship with Bangladesh and…

Billionaires Own US Climate Policy

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free reign to the almighty market. Price…

The end of the cycle, Trump and his new world

The election of Donald Trump in the United States marks the definitive change of a political cycle in that country, and if not, in the world. While eight years ago it was thought that Trump was just a political anomaly,…

BABIES IN THE BATHWATER (Dear Fellow Democrats)

I believe I’ve figured out why the Democratic Party, my party, has become so markedly out of touch over the course of the last decade. After being unfriended and castigated on social media by more than a dozen of you…

Here’s What Trump’s Peace Plan Might Look Like & Why Russia Might Agree To It

Putin might agree to freeze the conflict along the Line of Contact in spite of prior rhetoric against this scenario in the event that Trump threatens to escalate the conflict as punishment if he doesn’t. Trump’s pledge to resolve the…

Will New President Donald Trump’s Promise of Peace Come True?

On October 26, during his visit to Michigan, Trump addressed the importance of launching a peace process in the Middle East. He met with leaders of the Muslim community and promised them that a Trump administration would work for peace…

Discriminator-in-Chief Elected to the U.S. Presidency

The very people who have long faced discrimination have elected their “discriminator-in-chief.” Donald Trump’s political platform is rooted in cultural discrimination: it opposes emerging nations, alternative political views, women’s decision-making power, economic fairness, and even the recognition of climate change.…

Global poverty alleviation initiatives needed

The correct information about how terrible the picture of poverty in the world  is revealed in a statistic. The situation in India is the most critical in the world. According to the latest poverty index, 1100 million people in the…

Has The United Nations Outlived Its Usefulness?

The United Nations, established in 1945 at the end of World War II, has sadly virtually outlived its usefulness as it commemorates its 79th anniversary due to its failure to reform and adjust to the new world order following the…

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