By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The countries that aligned to help protect Assad may be reconsidering their allegiances Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel and Russia had agreed to cooperate on withdrawing foreign forces from…
By Nicholas Casey, Christoph Koettl and Deborah Acosta – The New York Times CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela’s authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his…
The Economist The European People’s Party has tolerated the Hungarian leader’s authoritarianism for too long ON JUNE 16TH 1989 Hungarians gathered to rebury Imre Nagy. The liberalising prime minister’s overthrow had prompted the uprising against Soviet rule 33 years before.
By LILI BAYER, MAÏA DE LA BAUME AND PHILIP KALETA – POLITICO Hungarian leader at heart of crisis for Europe’s center right faces big decisions on his party’s future. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is at a crossroads.
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 2019 (IPS) – The United Nations, which diligently monitors human rights violations worldwide, believes that centuries-old slavery still exists worldwide—largely as human trafficking. The UN mandate on “contemporary forms of slavery”…
France 24 (source: AFP) Members of the centre-right European People’s Party have officially requested the exclusion of Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party from the group, a top official said Monday. Three months from the European Parliament…
By Jim Lobe* – LobeLog The ongoing war in Yemen, called the world’s “worst humanitarian disaster” by the United Nations and independent aid agencies since early last year, received a grand combined total of 20 minutes of coverage on the ABC, NBC, and CBS weekday evening news…
By LILI BAYER AND HANNE COKELAERE – POLITICO 4 parties call for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz to either be kicked out or suspended from center-right bloc. Four national parties within the European People’s Party urged the political group’s president Thursday to either expel or suspend…
By Hall Gardner* In commenting on the new status of Chinese President Xi as president for life, President Trump quipped: “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great.
By Peter Wehner* – The New York Times What they left out of their questioning of Michael Cohen says more about the degradation of my former party than anything they said. Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday revealed as much about the Republican Party as it did…
