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At the latest meeting of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong-un spoke about the challenges facing his country. During a series of speeches, he acknowledged the economic difficulties it has faced, given it was almost completely cut off from the entire world for most of 2020. But …

US President Joe Biden’s election heralds a return to business as usual, where Wall Street and large corporations dictate domestic policy whilst the State Department and Pentagon spearhead America’s imperialist ambitions abroad. The US establishment and its allies can cool their nerves. In contrast to Donald Trump, who was accused …

Today senior US and Chinese officials are meeting for the first time under the Biden administration in Alaska, but the welcome is likely to be as cold as the weather in Anchorage. Both sides have a long list of grievances and demands as a prerequisite for any improvements in relations, …

While most of the attention has focused on Meghan Markle, or the Duchess of Sussex as she is officially known, the key player in this real-life soap opera is Prince Harry. The disconnect, breakdown, betrayal and revenge only involves him. It’s his family that was roasted in front of the …

Boris Johnson has confirmed that hotel quarantining will begin in the UK from Monday. Anyone – including British citizens – traveling from 30 ‘red-list’ countries will be transported from the airport they arrive at and expected to stay under supervision for up to 10 days.  A host of other governments …

“Many of us are altering our routines, working to get body armor, which is a reimbursable purchase that we can make,” Meijer told MSNBC in a Thursday interview.  Meijer was one of 10 Republicans to break from their party and join Democrats in voting for Trump’s impeachment, which now faces …

A habit of being special The rule of thumb was, ‘there is America and there are others’. With the others, shortcomings are natural and to be expected, even if many of them are well-established democracies. But America is a different story, because by default, the US is a role model …

There is substance to these rumours, as Iger has political ambitions, and was even thinking about a run for president in the 2020 election. In February, he marked the beginning of the end of his 25-year run at Disney, stepping down as CEO and becoming executive chairman, thus creating room to …

The error in such thinking, however, is to blame it all on President Donald Trump for being some kind of rogue leader, with the implication that if Democrat contender Joe Biden were to win the White House next week, then, happily, the historic decline in US global power might be …

And, this lack of debate does not accurately reflect the American electorate’s concern about such matters, with a recent Pew Research Center poll showing a solid 57 percent of registered American voters consider “foreign policy” a “very important” issue.  Of course, this should be an important issue, given the US …