May 15, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
Giancarlo Elia Valori Despite the “phase one” trade agreement signed between the United States and China in January 2020, the coronavirus issue has greatly distorted the Chinese economy. It should be recalled that China had pledged to buy 200 billion U.S. dollars of U.S. goods and “specific products” …
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May 12, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
The current biased pressure about the coronavirus and the Wuhan lab has multiple costs. It is likely to impede public understanding of what is known and unknown about the origins of the pandemic. It is an additional needless complication in U.S. relations with China, especially if the hypothesis …
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May 12, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
A new letter published on Monday lays out their top priorities. A group of fifty-one organizations led by Demand Progress sent a letter on Monday listing “key” foreign policy priorities of the progressive movement for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Biden had defeated insurgent progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders …
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May 12, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
What makes the virus so pernicious and difficult to eradicate is how it attaches itself to U.S. fears and insecurities regarding China but inflates them enormously. There is a China virus ravaging the world, preying in particular on Americans of all stripes. Its symptoms are clear: a feverish, …
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May 12, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
Biological outbreaks have been a fear among experts for decades. The ever-increasing encroachment upon natural habitats has resulted in zoonotic disease spillover to humans. There is no scientific evidence that the virus that causes the coronavirus was bioengineered. However, that does not mean that humans do not bear …
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May 12, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
Sajad Abedi Why is Sydney Bristow in the television show “pseudonym” the worst spy in history? She is always arrested. Why is she arrested? Because she is entering a good coping action. She fled to the guards. Video cameras record their image. She turns on motion detectors, whenever she …
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May 7, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
Prof. Louis René Beres “I warn the reader that this essay requires to be read very seriously and that I am unacquainted with any art which can make the subject clear to those who will not bestow on it their serious attention.”-Jean Jacques-Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) More …
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May 7, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
Hassan Riaz Chaudhry For centuries humanity has relied upon the ocean for its evolution and sustenance: be it the medium of exploring new lands as done so by the likes of Christopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gama to the eternal graves of countless warriors as a result of …
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May 7, 2020
Analysis, NEWS, Op-ed, OPINION
Giancarlo Elia Valori On April 27, General Khalifa Haftar, the military and political leader of Cyrenaica and especially of the Libyan National Army (LNA) announced that he “accepted the popular mandate to deal with the country’s issues, despite the burden of responsibilities and obligations, as well as the …
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