White America
A CENTRAL tenet of President Donald Trump’s administration is to transform the US into a white Christian nation. Towards this end, fully armed Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
An ‘America First’ strategy
THE National Security Strategy (NSS) recently released by the Trump administration leaves little doubt that it is an effort to redirect US foreign policy and break in several ways from the past.…
American action in Venezuela
The naked American aggression against Venezuela has created an outcry across the Global South, while states in the Global North have reacted cautiously, describing it as contrary to international law…
Unraveling American decorum
Diplomacy has never been gentle, but it has always rested on a tacit agreement: leaders may quarrel over interests, but they preserve civility. Roosevelt and Churchill with Stalin, Kennedy and…
New visa rules shatter the American dream for many Indians
Indian aerospace engineering student Sudhanva Kashyap thought he had mapped out everything it would take to get to the United States, only to have his plans upended by Washington’s sudden…
American reckoning
I have met people who gave me grace in Iran, in Mexico, in Haiti, in Gaza, in Cambodia, in Vietnam. People who understood the difference between ordinary citizens and the…
‘America has to come first’: Trump wins favour with Native Americans
Fed up with rising gas prices, Nita Mexican voted last November for Donald Trump, who is increasingly popular among Native American communities which have long supported the political left. “A…
America’s new war
IT is a war that Israel had been planning for years. After a nod from the Trump administration, the Zionist state last Friday unleashed multiple strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military…
America’s last throw of dice
ISRAEL has been called America’s unsinkable ship in the Middle East. Terrifyingly accurate Iranian missiles have been piercing its acclaimed Iron Dome to target the ship’s hull as it were. The war…
Fortress America
The first five months of the second Trump administration have been characterised by policy chaos in all sectors. This is most obvious in the tariff war Trump waged on April…
