Under the cover of diplomatic negotiations between Iran and the United States, Israel launched 200 fighter jets against Iran on June 13 targeting, but not limited to, facilities linked to Iran’s nuclear programme. Senior members of Iran’s military leadership and nuclear scientists were assassinated. At the time of writing 420 persons have been killed in […]
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SHOCK AND AWE!
On ‘liberation day,’ April 2, President Donald Trump announced, to the shock and awe of the world, sweeping reciprocal tariffs on the goods of most countries, bringing to an end, in one fell swoop, the era of free trade, the foremost champion of which was Adam Smith in 1776 in “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth […]
GUYANA – SHADES OF AUTOCRACY?
In an article published in SN on August 27 – “Whither Guyana: Autocracy or democracy?” Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan, a former senior UN official and regular contributor to SN, concludes that in Guyana there are “shades” of autocracy. The events that give rise to the “shades” are: “official inquisitions into the tax status of NGOs; calls […]
DRAMATIC TURN IN US POLITICS
Kamala Harris, described as an American woman of African and South Asian heritage, is poised to be nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in US elections to be held in November. In slow-motion, over two weeks and more, the effort of President Biden to seek a second term as President, amidst collapsing poll numbers, palpably […]
WHITHER APNU?
All agree that there is a democracy deficit when an Opposition is unable or unwilling to hold a government to account. In 1992, APNU, then known as the PNC, was voted out of office and remained in opposition for 23 years. After 19 years, circumstances began to change when two opposition parties, APNU and the […]