At stake is the free world, the international order, and good reigning over evil. — If you follow my writing, you will know that I dislike opinion pieces. All attempts at providing substance to an audience should be based on empirical data, factual reporting and credible sources; emotions and baseless claims should be left aside. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its bombing of a…

Just look south for their implications. — A month before the 6 January protests and terrorist attack, President Donald Trump’s staff drafted two executive orders –neither authorized — that among other things ordered the Secretary of Defense [1] and or the Department of Homeland Security [2] to “seize, collect, retain, and analyze all [election-related] machines, equipment, electronically…

Latin America seems poised to fully embrace it; Making it susceptible to Chinese Influence — Latin America has become the epitome of political extremes. “He did okay,” a taxi driver in Quito, Ecuador claimed about former leftist president Andres Correa. “A lot of the roads, including this one, are thanks to his policies,” he further added. The Uber driver in Lima, Peru was more cynical…

The terrorism charge in the Oxford High School mass shooting reflects an endemic misunderstanding of the term. — Mass shootings are the new normal in America. This new normal is partly thanks to a vicious cycle that repeats itself after each shooting. One side calls for more gun control regulations. The other uses them as a rationale for more guns. It is not a surprise, then, that this…

It is plausible, but they are unlikely to do it. — A couple days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, a friend asked me if I had seen Mr Zuckerberg’s keynote. No, I responded. “It is crazy,” my friend replied. Intrigued, I watched the keynote, and immediately messaged back, “Crazy no, it is puzzling!” Among the myriad of questions Meta’s…

There are some troubling signs — “What is happening in [America] now, is exactly what was happening in Bosnia before the [civil] war…. Hate on this level can only be sustained so long before actually becoming a civil war.” These were the words Bill Maher, comedian and host of Real Time with Bill Maher, heard from…

For twenty years America pursued unmixable strategies — You can stir as much as you want but oil and water will not mix. Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to political power after twenty years proves this truism true, sadly, once more. So, why after so much blood and treasure, are the Taliban in power? And no, it was…

Ben & Jerry’s decision to not sell its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory does not amount to economic terrorism — “Schweddy Balls” that is the name of Ben and Jerry’s, an American founded, British-owned ice cream brand, most bizarre flavor. But on 19 July, Ben and Jerry announced that it will no longer sell their ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). This announcement — -like their bizarre flavor…

BLM is a hastly mislabelled social movement. — In the wake of the 6 January terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol, your author participated in a compulsory online “extremist stand down seminar” at work. These seminars seldomly go as intended but always as you expect them: with uncontrollable and fiery rhetoric from people on both sides of an…