Popes of the Catholic Church often issue encyclicals – policy pronouncements that declare the future directions of the church as regards one particular social, economic or political arena. It is a...
The recent general election in Turkey proved to be a major setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to use his party's parliamentary majority to, via constitutional referendum, establish a...
One thing the Greek financial crisis has revealed is that democracy is in short supply. EU countries are blackmailing a fellow EU member state. EU institutions are bypassed, in favour of unelected...
Four-years of unrelenting war has really taken its toll on Syria. To say that the worst of both worlds has emerged from this horrible mess would be an understatement. On the one hand we have the now...
Two news headlines relating to recent events in two Palestinian enclaves reminded one of the new realities gradually taking place in those enclaves. Let us start with the Gaza Strip. Since 2007 it...
This weekend, the New York Times opted to publish a transphobic and hateful opinion editorial piece by Elinor Burkett, who apparently considers herself the judge of ‘what makes a woman’—and...
The notorious Islamic State group (ISIS) became infamous on an international scale when it rampaged across Northern Iraq in early June 2014. A year ago. Since that time it has continued its bloody...
There has been numerous speculation and talk over the last four-years about whether or not the deadly war which has embroiled Syria will ultimately see to that nation break-up altogether. One recent...
Honduras, also known as the original “Banana Republic,” had been governed by military regimes that obtained power by means of coup d’Etats since the 1950s. Social unrest became rampant and a...
In late January 1995 Russian early-warning radars detected a single rocket launch off the northwestern coast of Norway. The location of its launch coupled with its trajectory appeared to resemble...
