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A Clinton presidency

It is quite a certainty that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States of America. An America under the leadership of Hillary Clinton is perhaps scarier…

The Language Of War

The language of war

The tragic war that has torn Syria apart over the last five years has created enormous suffering in modern times. Not enough has been said about the war by the…

For A More Just World

For a more just world

The more things change at the UN, the more they remain the same. The US and Russia, the two superpowers, have been taking turns to belittle and disempower the world…

Trump And Bombs

Trump and bombs

Eventually, the truth reveals itself. And so it was after President Donald Trump – a still surreal phrase to put to paper – elected to bomb a mostly vacant Syrian…

Palestine’s Mandela

Palestine’s Mandela

I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti. I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times. During our conversations, we discussed Israeli-Palestinian peace. Our ideas…

Reading the Turkish coup

This was a coup attempt by a section of the army – we don’t as yet know the strength of the units or formations involved – and some elements of…

Shooting Wars

Shooting wars

Last week, Steve Bannon, the ‘eminence gris’ in the Trump White House, blithely observed that the US will soon be in a “shooting war” in the Middle East. He may…

Testing Times For The Faithful

Testing times for the faithful

“Mr Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!” As Donald Trump goes about walling America in and shutting out the world, these prophetic words of Ronald Reagan – deified by the Republicans…

Whither Turkey?

Whither Turkey?

THE heinous Saturday night bloodbath at a swanky nightclub on the banks of the Bosphorus in Istanbul brought what had already been a terrible year for Turkey to an exceptionally…

World In Flux

World in flux

Influential contemporary thinker and author George Friedman observed that the modern geopolitical world changes after every 20 years. Towards the end of the 19th century, European ascendancy was complete. By…