The fall of the House of Assad
By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – The swift collapse, after 54 years, of Syria’s al-Assad dynasty has just transformed the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape.
By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – The swift collapse, after 54 years, of Syria’s al-Assad dynasty has just transformed the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape.
Last Monday, the Bolivian Supreme Court sentenced former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in absentia to six years and three months in prison over his involvement in the issuing of dozens of oil contracts without parliamentary approval.
By Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana One has the sense that there is a new air of optimism at large in Guyana.
By Guillermo Ortiz MEXICO CITY – After winning the US presidential election last month, it did not take Donald Trump very long to announce that he will impose import tariffs of 25% on all goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as adding ten percentage points to all existing tariffs on goods from China.
Something about standing in lines especially for a long time is distressing to me.
By Daoud Kuttab RAMALLAH – Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election was no surprise to people in the Middle East.
By Wazim Mowla President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House 2025 is once again shaking the international community to its core.
By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – Prediction is always difficult, but doubly so in the case of the US president-elect.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Unlike during his first term in the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump appears determined to keep many of his campaign promises.
By Sławomir Sierakowski WARSAW – When Angela Merkel left the German chancellorship in December 2021, after 16 years in power, she had a credible claim to being one of the greatest politicians of the twenty-first century (so far).
Last week, Transparency international reported that Ecuador’s National Court sentenced 20 government officials involved a corruption network, known as the Metastasis scandal, that infiltrated the country’s judicial, police and prison systems.
By Percy Hintzen Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – As the shock of Donald Trump’s victory sinks in, pundits and politicians are mulling what it means for the future of the United States and global politics.
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 144 Thanksgiving has been silently making its presence felt in Guyana with the Black Friday sale looked forward to by shoppers spending on things they do not need because they will save on Black Friday spending.
By Harold James PRINCETON – In 1987, the historian Paul Kennedy published his influential bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which dwelled on the theme of imperial overreach and concluded with a look at the Soviet Union and the United States – the two great powers of the time.
By Moisés Naím WASHINGTON, DC – When asked by a journalist what might derail his government, Harold Macmillan, Britain’s prime minister between 1957 and 1963, famously replied, “Events, dear boy, events!”
By Christy Hoffman GENEVA – Black Friday has become more than a shopping spree.
By Donald Rodney Part 5 – Embracing stakeholders It should have been emphasized in Part 4 that embracing disclosure is the primary responsibility of government through the various procurement entities and NPTAB – this is an unfortunate omission.
By Mohamed ElBaradei VIENNA – At 82, I have lived through countless political and social upheavals, enough to become somewhat inured to history’s recurring cycles.
This letter, addressed to the Honorable Representatives of the United States Embassies in the Caribbean, was sent to the US Embassies in Guyana, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Haiti, Suriname and Jamaica on November 18, 2024.
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