Commerce

Brexit and bureaucracy: the cost of absurdity

Editorial, The Guardian Conservatives continue to obsess about the burden to business of red tape, except where it is real – at the EU border Among the various grievances that led to Britain’s departure from the European Union, resentment of worker protections was not dominant…

Environment

Obama, Trump and Biden: Consistency in Foreign Policy

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures  U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and affiliated communist governments.

Economy / Finance

How geopolitics is likely to shape up post-Trump

By George Wachira* – Business Daily, Nairobi –Expectations may be high, but the new president is unlikely to have much time at his disposal to address the wider world issues, many of which have evolved through acts of omission or commission by Trump’s administration. –Biden is…

Civil rights

Trump and the siege of the US Capitol

By Hall Gardner* It can still happen here! The January 6 siege of the Capitol—the very symbol of American Democracy—was like a scene out of the novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written by Sinclair Lewis in 1935.

Armed conflicts

Israel and apartheid: prophecy or description?

Editorial – The Guardian With no roadmap for peace, Israel risks being compared to the old South Africa It was a deliberate provocation by B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights group, to describe the Palestinians in the Holy Land as living under an apartheid regime. Many…

authoritarianism

Orban’s popularity slips following repression and crisis

Levente Szadai Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán secured his third successive term in the 2018 general election. Now, for the first time since 2010 polls show that the “united opposition” would defeat his party if an election was held today. According to the survey conducted by one of…

Corruption

Trump's second impeachment: urgent and necessary

Editorial – The Guardian These have been 10 days that shook America and the world. Congress has made the right response The wheels of justice are slowly but remorselessly closing in on Donald Trump and his gang.

Armed conflicts

The West Is Still Complicit in the War on Yemen

By Isa Ferrero* – The Wire, India The US – as well as European powers like France and Germany – continue to sell arms and pour fuel on the humanitarian disaster in Yemen. Late last year, in the waning days of his administration, Donald Trump made an unsurprising but nevertheless…

authoritarianism

Understanding Trump

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures  Thoughts in and around geopolitics U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters and detractors are both obsessed with him.