Trump and coronavirus On December 27 Donald Trump signed a proposed Covid-19 relief and spending bill. “I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more,” the US president declared. However, he refused to approve ...
The public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main events this week. The Atlantic Council accused Turkey of being a “rogue state” on their list of top ten risks and opportunities forecast. Another interesting evaluation on Tukey came from the American research group Stratfor, a think tank that includes former top executives in the US government. Lastly, the ...
2020 has been one of the strangest, hardest and most eventful years this century. It began with the high-profile assassination of IRGC General Qassem Soleimani by the Americans, which almost provoked a war between Iran and the US, the fires in Australia, continued with the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, massive protests in the United States, the attempted colour revolution in Hong ...
Major global trends: COVID-19 The new coronavirus pandemic was the biggest problem for all humankind in 2020. What began as just another virus has become a pandemic on a scale comparable to the deadly Spanish flu a century ago. According to the WHO, 72.4 million people have been infected with the coronavirus. Coronavirus has become a major challenge to public ...
Iran has announced that they have been monitoring the movements of the American B-52 heavy bombers and announced that their airspace was a red line, and furthermore that they would respond in an “overwhelming and harsh” manner towards any violations against the airspace. Iran’s statement came right after the United States has declared that two heavy bombers have been flying ...
In the Central African Republic, on the eve of the December 27 presidential election, opposition forces are trying to disrupt the electoral process and destabilize the country. The confrontation between the official government led by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who is running for a second presidential term, and armed opposition groups, has escalated in recent weeks. The opposition is demanding the ...
Israeli officials and a US delegation led by President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner boarded a first commercial flight to Morocco from Tel Aviv on Tuesday to hammer out details of Israel’s normalization agreement with the North African country. They jointly made the first commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Morocco’s capital Rabat. Morocco became the 4th Arab country ...
The public agenda in Turkey has been busy discussing the latest details of the ongoing pandemic as the situation continues to worsen. At the same time the public has been concerned with the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey, which were announced by the US State Department website on December 14. THE US CAATSA SANCTIONS ON TURKEY The US Treasury Department on ...
The revolutionary bandit Fransisco “Pancho” Villa had nothing in common with Mexico’s current drug warlords, but he may still have inspired Donald Trump. Pancho Villa was fighting the Mexican army in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution and raided the US city of Columbus in 1916 in search of weapons. The US considered the Mexican Army too weak to fight ...
Unrest in Central African Republic: French intervention? Major unrest has erupted in the Central African Republic as rebel forces advancing on the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, have been pushed back. The UN said Sunday that after a destabilisation phase, the situation was back “under control”: Vladimir Monteiro, spokesman for the UN’s MINUSCA peacekeeping force told AFP on Sunday that ...