Global Geo-political Series: Trump-Turnbull call not gone well
Feb 02, 2017 06:56 am UTC| Commentary
According to reports surfacing today, a phone call between the US President Donald Trump and the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has not gone that well. The feud broke between the two, with regard to a refugee...
Global Geo-political Series: Further EU integration unlikely before German election
Feb 01, 2017 07:23 am UTC| Commentary
In response to Trump administrations criticism of the European Union and Germany as a currency exploiter, European Council President Donald Tusk has called for spectacular steps from the European Union leaders in order to...
Global Geo-political Series: Donald Tusk portrays Donald Trump as existential threat to EU
Feb 01, 2017 06:50 am UTC| Commentary
Before Donald Trump became President, he took a shot at Germany by saying that Chancellor Merkel responsible for the refugee crisis due to her open border policies and correctly predicted that the United Kingdom would vote...
China: globalisation’s unlikely champion
Jan 30, 2017 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We live in an era of unprecedented and frequently bewildering change. Shocks and surprises are the order of the day, none more so or more consequential than the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the...
America has never been truly isolationist, and Trump isn't either
Jan 29, 2017 23:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trump is often called an isolationist. Some commentators argue he has revived a dormant isolationist tradition that goes all the way back to the Revolution. His slogan America First, which featured prominently in...
What is the Doomsday Clock and why should we keep track of the time?
Jan 28, 2017 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
It made headlines recently when the Doomsday Clock was shifted from three minutes to midnight to a new setting of two and a half minutes to midnight. That is the nearest the clock has been to midnight for more than...
Israel behaves much the same both inside and outside the 'Green Line'
Jan 28, 2017 05:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
Less than a month before the inauguration of Donald Trump, the outgoing US secretary of state, John Kerry, used a major speech on the Middle East to ask a highly sensitive question: How does Israel reconcile a permanent...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects