Tag: Trump Administration

TWO AMERICANS, TWO GODS

A year ago on Easter Sunday, President Trump shared on Truth Social what he called “the golden rule of negotiating and success“: “HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES.” One year on, the gold has not made the rules. What it has made is war. This Holy Saturday, Trump posted: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days […]

GRADUALLY ISOLATED UKRAINE IS A VICTIM OF ZELENSKY’S LACK OF FORESIGHT

The plight of Ukraine is rapidly slipping through US President Donald Trump’s fingers with dangerous signals to a bleak future for the embattled nation and its leader Volodymyr Zelensky. The ominous signs do not shield Europe from the brewing storm either. Two public statements on Ukraine by the Trump administration this week point to a […]

NEW US ENVOY BOZELL’S START IN SA IS UNSAVOURY

South Africa’s fate appears to be like water on the palm of the hand of the US administration. A cursory desktop search has a plethora of examples that shows the utterly lopsided bilateral ties between Pretoria and Washington. It need not be like this. Diplomatic relations between two nations are premised on fundamental ethos such as mutual respect, voluntary cooperation and […]

SCHILLER INSTITUTE FORUM WARNS OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR, URGES NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) and the Schiller Institute convened an emergency international online forum on Tuesday, titled “Epstein and the bottomless depravity of the elites: Urgent need for a cultural renaissance.” Bringing together a diverse panel of international scholars, former legislators, and analysts, the event painted a stark portrait of a global order allegedly on the […]

EVERY INITIATIVE COUNTS AGAINST INCREASED BELLIGERENCE

There are, at present, many points of escalating belligerence in the world. From military confrontation, to financial/economic warfare. This spells both increased danger, especially in the case of the Persian Gulf, where there is the threat of triggering nuclear war, to otherwise needless suffering and chaos, as we see with the horror in the eastern […]

SA MUST JOIN US, MOROCCO AND OTHERS IN SECURING WESTERN SAHARA PEACE DEAL

The Trump administration is moving with turbo-charged speed to settle the Western Sahara conflict. In that expeditious US adventure, there is bound to be winners and losers. South Africa, a long-standing backer of the Western Sahara people’s fight for independence, appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place. SA has historically aligned […]

GOD IS NOT AMUSED

Some people believe that because they have billions of dollars or positions of power, they can speak nonsensical schemes into being. Some recent examples follow: Many of these rich fools gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, presided over by its interim co-chair, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who is selling shares in Ukraine […]

AMERICA’S “KILL LINE” MAKES A MOCKERY OF LIVING THE DREAM

“Kill line”, the relatively new American catchphrase that has come to describe people who have fallen on hard times, has lit the torch on the vulnerability to fall into the quicksand of poverty. The phrase “kill line” originates from video games, where it refers to a “health threshold below which a character can be instantly […]

ZELENSKY’S PRAISE FOR MADURO’S KIDNAPPING MUST TEACH SA TO CHOOSE ALLIES WISELY

As most of the international community paused in “shock and awe” of the US whilst staging a brazen military attack on Venezuela – kidnapping and whisking away the country’s president and his wife to a detention centre far away in New York – some celebrated the cowboy drama as a lesson for adversaries. Among the […]

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE

Amidst a week of great turmoil in geopolitics, the US Senate voted 52-47 to advancea war powers resolution aimed at limiting theuse of armed forces against Venezuela. The vote followed concerns that President Donald Trump did not seek congressional approval prior to his military attack on Venezuela. Trump had ramped up his discomforting rhetoric with […]

US SUFFERS CHINA’S BACKLASH OVER “PROVOCATIVE MOVE” TO ARM TAIWAN

The People’s Republic of China has predictably unleashed a major backlash against the provocative US decision to sell large-scale arms to Taiwan, an inalienable region of China. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced taking countermeasures against 20 US military companies and 10 senior executives who have engaged in arming Taiwan in recent years. […]

A ‘NEW METHOD OF THINKING’ FOR A WORLD IN TURMOIL

Amid the seeming chaos and fluctuations happening in every direction, where virtually nothing can be stated with certainty, what is certain is that a new world is in formation, and it needs a new organizing principle if it is avoid a catastrophic disaster during the intervening tumult. The news around the reported U.S. peace deal […]