BY MOHAMMED ADEMO, JEFFREY SMITH (*) – Foreign Policy Tepid reforms and halfhearted concessions won’t save the country’s authoritarian government from its existential crisis For a brief moment last week, Ethiopia seemed poised to shed its reputation as Africa’s Stasi state. At…
Burrowes* A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including during…
Cas Mudde* – The Guardian Oprah Winfrey isn’t the first celebrity to be floated as a presidential candidate. And she won’t be the last When Oprah Winfrey gave a blistering speech of women’s empowerment at the Golden Globes, pundits went into overdrive speculating that she might…
Ronald Brownstein * – The Atlantic According to previously unpublished findings, the blue-collar whites at the core of his coalition have lost faith over his first year in office. A massive new source of public-opinion research offers fresh insights into the fault lines emerging…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. To add to the points made in this post: The naive economic view that “more open trade is every and always better” is unsound.
By Baher Kamal – Wall Street International At risk, over 20,000 species of bees in charge of pollination The title is that of the song To bee or not to bee, which was composed by the Greek band “Locomondo” to support Greenpeace’s campaign Global Day of Action – Save the Bees! In…
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 2018 – This year, we will have 3 million tourists each day wandering the world. This massive phenomenon is without precedent in human history and is happening (as usual), with only one consideration in mind: money.
By Slawomir Sierakowski* – Foreign Policy If the EU really wants to punish Poland, it should turn up the pressure on Hungary. Kaczynski has long promised the advent of “Budapest in Warsaw,” an allusion to Orban’s model of “illiberal democracy” that the Hungarian leader…
By George Friedman – Geopolitical Futures. The U.S.-Pakistan alliance is over.
Scarce impact of Wolf’s book among Republicans By DAVID P. GOLDMAN*- Asia Times Hatchet job should be seen for what it was from its inception: an attempt to show Trump couldn’t win office and that, if he did, it could only have been due to some awful accident I read as much of…
