Lots of hot air – no substance The Kim – Trump summit in Singapore. The media have spent a fortune covering this. Yes the handshake was...
Un Trump summit alert Yes it is happening. Yes the world’s media has taken the bait. Nothing substantive will come of it –...
US/Gulf airlines pact is more armistice than peace treaty The United States and the United Arab Emirates have signed a deal on May 11th which is the resolution...
Trump just made the world far less safe After three years denouncing the Iran nuclear deal as “horrible,” “disastrous,” and “insane,” Donald Trump yesterday formally announced that...
A new Korea It was the first meeting between the leaders of the two Korean nations for eleven years. It was...
Tillerson gone – “a master stroke for the UAE & Saudi Arabia” İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi was expelled from the UAE. He is a writer, entrepreneur, and human rights activist...
To boldly go…. As a kid I kept scrapbooks of all the early Mercury, Gemini, Apollo space flights. I could name all...
Oprah on equality and decency The following is the full text of Oprah Winfrey’s speech as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at...
Emirates calls out Trump on USA service reductions Emirates has announced plans to reduce service to the USA amid fallout from the Trump administration’s new immigration restrictions...