08 Feb, 2019

On February 5th, 2019, President Trump gave his delayed State of the Union Speech. The US President’s ‘State of the Union’ (SOTU) speech to the American people is a personalized report card on how the country is doing under the incumbent administration, and to the rest of the watching World, it’s a broad stroke assessment of political, social and economic currents that are defining America today, and its near and mid-term outlook. As the World’s largest economy, and the most armed and militarily

27 Jan, 2019

For his recent decision to allow enough funding go through to open the US Government for three weeks, Trump is being excoriated by some on the ‘Ultra-Conservative’ side of the partisan divide. While the ‘Liberal Left’ is celebrating the defeat of Trump, and the win of his protagonist Democrat Nancy Pelosi in this latest partisan battle, it’s the prominent commentators of the Right that are skewering him more profoundly, and thus wounding him more gravely. Trump, politically, is more sensitive to

24 Jan, 2019

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s legendary English bulldog tenacity has been on display these past months as she tries to push through the results of the Referendum of June 2016 [for the U.K. to leave the E.U.]. The decision to leave the EU, known as ‘Brexit’, and colloquially referred to by Theresa May and other politicians as ‘the will of the people’, was met with equal stubbornness, and sheer irascibility of the deeply divided quarreling British Parliamentarians, who in their troublesome

14 Jan, 2019

Both the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) are being wracked by internal discord and division amongst their body politic, and their strife torn public. These two countries are normally considered leaders of Western democracies, and the global guardians of liberal and progressive values and human rights, which together, have underpinned the values of Western democracies. But now, both these countries are being pulled apart by political movements that are counter to their core

17 Dec, 2018

The long impregnable floodgates of accountability have suddenly opened, and Trump, who till recently seemed impervious to all challenges and charges to his glaring ubiquitous wrongdoings, and had thus earned the moniker the ‘Teflon Don’ after the seemingly untouchable Mafioso Boss, fellow New Yorker, John Gotti of the Gambino family, is now just as vulnerable and facing an ignoble end to an increasingly, publicly documented life of lies, deception and crime. Donald Trump’s hereunto seeming

10 Dec, 2018

This past year and particularly these last couple of weeks, were extraordinary in U.S. Presidential history. No sitting President in living memory had so many objectionable actions attributed to him, on a daily basis, and was still left to continue on his self-destructive, and country-destroying ways, without any serious attempts to stop him, or even question him in any meaningful way.   This of course was only possible because he had the unwavering support of the Republican law makers, who

03 Dec, 2018

The World’s 13th G-20 Summit was held in Argentina. This year’s location couldn’t have been more appropriately symbolic of the instability of current global affairs as Argentina is the poster boy of regular economic collapses and bailouts by the IMF, as just happened recently in the fall of 2018. Holding the G-20 Summit in Argentina is the perfect metaphor for the collapsing stability in the conflict riven international order, led by the increasingly authoritarian leaders proliferating around

25 Nov, 2018

Lately, Saudi Arabia has been in the news a lot, for all the wrong reasons. It is a totalitarian Kingdom, ruled by the founding family of Saud (the House of Saud) some 7,000 strong ‘princes - heirs’, that do not tolerate any (and we mean ANY) criticism, protests, opposition, or any form of dissension, of any kind, to their absolute ownership and rule of the Arabian Peninsula, which is the sixth largest country by geographical size, with the second largest oil reserves in the world. It is also

14 Nov, 2018

A Century has passed since the end of the First World War. On November 11, 2018 the World remembered the signing of the ‘Armistice’ that ended one of the bloodiest and most horrific systematic slaughters, undertaken by humans against other humans, inspired by hyper-nationalism, a full 100 years ago. The times were such that some of the populations of the opposing nations (and their colonies) - Britain, France, Russia (on one side), and Germany, Austria and Italy (on the other side), all engaged