The UN’s mythical black helicopters are back. The triumphant, reality-challenged new Republican majority in the House of Representatives imagine that they are flying in formation up the Potomac in a bid to take over the United States.
As in the United States, the military and big business in China aren’t shy about challenging the executive office.
Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society, producing chaos and political unrest. Start with a simple fact: the prices of basic food staples are already approaching or exceeding their 2008 peaks, that year when deadly riots erupted in dozens of countries around the world.
Realism and ethics converge in the belief that nuclear weapon use is unthinkable.
Alvaro Colom signed an oil deal with Hugo Chavez while trying not to alienate the United States.
Ben Ali’s exile in Saudi Arabia, with whom Tunisia has an extradition treaty, is an uneasy one.
The new Republican chair of the powerful House Committee on Foreign Affairs plans to seek sanctions against Venezuela for its purported ties to Middle East terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program.
Polarised and violent political crises that recur in nation states signal that the political formulae adopted to resolve the crises have not worked. Such is the stark reality in Côte d’Ivoire. The United Nations’s (UN) strategy to oversee elections and install a winner-takes-all Western-style ‘democratically elected’ state president has failed.
When the uprisings began, the U.S. Congress saw fit to pass a budget resolution that included $12 million in security assistance to Tunisia’s regime.
High turnout and jubilation on the part of voters is a reflection of their desire to free themselves from decades of oppression by Northern Sudan-dominated regimes.