Australia has faced the same policy issue for the past 15 years; Balancing economic ties with China, whilst sustaining its strategic relationship with the US in order to secure its position in the Indo Pacific region. However, caught in the crossfire of great power competition, … Continue readingAUSTRALIA’S POLICY DILEMMA
250 years. The average age of an empire, from conception to crumble. Some empires live a short life and end up as a mere sentence in the pages of history, while others endure for centuries and have nowhere enough pages recounting their rise or fall. … Continue readingCOLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE: FROM THE GREATEST SUPERPOWER TO A FAILED STATE
“We will today be terminating our relationship”, were the blunt words proclaiming that the United States of America will end their partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). President Donald Trump, who had earlier this month threatened to pull funding, made the announcement Friday in … Continue readingTHE BREAKUP: US VS WHO
BY DEAN ANTOS – The late Roger Ailes, the former Chairman and CEO of Fox News, has long been credited as the news executive that essentially ran the Republican Party. Many recent film productions, including Showtime’s ‘The Loudest Voice’, have shone light on the rise … Continue readingWILL TRUMP outFOX AMERICA AGAIN?
War. It never changes. While this statement may be true regarding the nature of warfare, the way wars are fought are changing rapidly. The world is facing the dawn of a new age where new weapons and dimensions to war will define the globe during … Continue readingTHE FUTURE OF WARFARE
Trump’s political campaigns and Presidency have been riddled with brazen, bizarre and outrageous comments and threats. It is no surprise then that his most recent is a threat to halt voluntary payments to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The justification being its apparent China-favoured stance … Continue readingTRUMPS CUT TO WHO A SCAPEGOAT TACTIC
As cases of coronavirus surpass millions globally and many embrace government guidelines to remain at home, an intricate narrative of dissension has arisen, with fears of impingements on freedom, abuses of power, and poverty fuelling a complex story of rebellion. Over the third weekend of … Continue readingSHUT DOWN THE SHUTDOWN: THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE LOCKDOWN REBELLION MOVEMENT
THE WINNERS AND LOSERS By Francesco Barrese Super Tuesday has finally arrived, and the final few Democratic candidates have just experienced the full force of it. Results from the first four states to vote (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina) provided no clear indication … Continue readingA SUPER TUESDAY FOR SOME, BUT NOT ALL:
The other month saw the Syrian conflict explode once again, with President Trump making the momentous decision to pull US troops out of Syria, abandoning Americas Kurdish allies and jeopardising the fight against the Islamic State. This move backfired spectacularly, with Turkey launching an offensive … Continue readingTRUMP’S PULL-OUT GAME | THE PRESIDENT’S GRAND STRATEGY FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
HOW WRONG WILL THE POLLS BE THIS TIME? To those of us who are more familiar with international politics, it should be common knowledge that the Canadian federal elections are coming up and that given recent history political polls can no longer be relied upon. … Continue readingTHE CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION