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22. John J. Metzler

Venezuela referendum threatens neighboring country

Venezuela’s ruling Marxists are using some time-honored tricks to give their economically battered regime an edge for next year’s presidential elections. In a classic political mobilization tactic, President Nicolas Maduro held a “referendum” to ask his citizens what the future status should be for a mineral-rich but disputed region of a neighboring country, namely Guyana.

2023-12-07 16:31

North Korea 'Third Time Lucky' launch of spy satellite

North Korea got lucky. After two previous failures earlier this year to launch a spy satellite, Pyongyang successfully sent a satellite into orbit. Using a powerful Chollima rocket, the military satellite was placed into orbit prompting leader Kim Jong-un to proclaim the launch “had propelled the country into a new era of space power.”

2023-11-29 16:35

Argentines choose freedom over same old political tango

Facing a tight and tense presidential election showdown, Argentines chose freedom. In a stunning upset, the South American country elected an upstart libertarian candidate Javier Milei, an economist who promised to cut spending, reduce bloated budgets, mixed with calls for economic shock therapy to save the resource-rich country from its downward spiral.

2023-11-23 16:00

Iran's expanding oil sales fuel policy ambitions

As violence explodes throughout the Middle East, from Gaza to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq, the political fingerprints of the Islamic Republic of Iran become increasingly obvious on this regional tableaux of terror. Long deemed a state sponsor of terrorism, Iran’s Islamic rulers have funded nearly a dozen regimes and proxy movements which directly challenge regional stability and key American interests.

2023-11-15 16:35

Political tsunami sweeps Southern Hemisphere

“It’s the last bus stop in the world,” a former New Zealand prime minister once told me while he was visiting New York. Indeed a remote South Pacific island nation of merely 5 million souls, known for the Kiwi, its All Blacks rugby team and some pretty good wines, was sadly hobbled by a woke progressive government who turned the once-idyllic place into a land beset by inflation, unaffordable housing and rampant crime and gangs.

2023-10-30 16:35

Effective human rights council needed now more than ever

Over the past year, human rights abuses in places ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to Myanmar, Xinjiang, China and the Middle East, to name a few sordid cases, have been splashed across the headlines.

2023-10-23 16:20

East Asian security debated at UN Assembly

A wide swath of Asian security issues were discussed and deliberated during the recent U.N. General debate. China and Korea dominated concerns though other topics such as the South China Sea were largely overlooked.

2023-10-08 16:35

After Afghanistan; global conflicts widen, endure, spread

It's been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration's appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America's longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic myopia it glaringly manifested, the Afghan debacle incentivized what political scientists dub “bad actors,” such as Russia and Communist China.

2023-09-10 16:35

Shining light on North Korea's human rights violations

Most countries politely prefer to look the other way when it comes to confronting widespread reports of North Korean human rights violations. After all, what can you do about what goes on in one of the world's most closed and repressive communist regimes?

2023-08-29 16:35

American films still hold sway in France

PARIS- “Barbie” has charmed Paris. The pink hued doll figure come alive in its blockbuster movie rendition has captured the hearts and imagination of the French film viewers during the second post-COVID summer. Next, after the syrupy saccharine adventures of “Barbie” comes the cerebral but dark “Oppenheimer,” the story of the developer of the Atomic Bomb. And third,the perpetual and popular adventure movie “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.”

2023-08-23 16:35

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