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

10 Nov, 2018

The American November 6th, 2018 Mid-Term Elections were a kind-of referendum on America’s real character, and a chance to retreat, en-masse, from the two years of Trump insanity and vote for everything un-Trump-like – in other words vote for a return to truth, accountability, civility, free-press, inclusion, real democracy, racial equality, and unity. But unfortunately, America came up short and the American’s voted, by and large, in favor of continuing bigotry, racism, inequality,

02 Nov, 2018

To the Donald Trump hardcore support base; he can do no wrong. And, in the defense of his pathological lying, disruption, divisiveness, and sheer ineptness as a World leader, the rational given for their continuing support, are his supposedly amazing accomplishments since he became President. So, days before the ‘Mid-Term elections’, we thought a quick assessment of his major promises made during his  2016 campaign, and the accomplishment of them so far were certainly warranted. It has to be

22 Oct, 2018

The decades following the end of the Second World War have been generally globally progressive, peaceful, and for most countries, a time of increasing prosperity and therefore an age of advances in learning, technology, productivity, international integration, and measurable mitigation of global ignorance and poverty; in other words, all things considered, a golden age of peace and prosperity. But as is typical of the human species, to somewhat slow our evolution and prove and give reign to our

29 Sep, 2018

The United States President, Donald J. Trump, addressed the United Nations Assembly in New York on Tuesday September 25th, 2018 and was laughed at for his embarrassing need for exaggerated self-promotion. His insistence that globalization, nations uniting to work on global issues such as trade, climate change and conflicts, was evil, and only independent patriotic nationalism was the new solution, showed a shocking lack of historic perspective, as did his insensitivity to being in and addressing

04 Sep, 2018

These past weeks have been eventful to say the least, what with the recent divisive funeral of Senator John McCain, pitting the heroic uniting force of John McCain against the derisive, divisive forces of Donald Trump; the contentious NAFTA negotiations between the threatening Donald Trump instructed U.S. negotiators and the defiant Canadian government; the shocking riots and rise of the neo-Nazi’s in Germany; the increasing heavy-handedness of India’s Hindu Nationalists as they trample on

14 Aug, 2018

The plaintive statement “We don’t have a single friend” as a headline on an article in a major news organization caught our attention. Upon reading the article, it was a bit surprising to know that the statement referred to Canada as being abandoned by its many allies and friends around the World, in its bizarre diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia. The rather dramatic statement was attributed to Rachel Curran, a policy director under the former conservative government of Canadian PM Stephen