This week, President Trump quietly disbanded his much-ballyhooed voting commission, originally charged with identifying the “millions” of illegal votes he alleged had been cast for his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton.
Category: News Commentary
We Can’t Solely Rely on World Leaders at the UN to Effect Global Change
As diplomats meet at the United Nations this week, it’s more important than ever that all people are empowered to engage the challenges of these times.
The silencing of Leila de Lima – Duterte’s “first political prisoner”
The Philippines senator’s detention is emblematic of ‘sneaking authoritarianism’ amid the president’s bloody war on drugs. From jail, she says: “My case is a test”.
TRUMP’S TOMAHAWK MISSILES WON’T HELP SOMALIA FIND PEACE
Blowback is already happening in response to President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. This week’s car bombing and siege at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, which killed 31 people and resulted in dozens of hostages, is an apparent reaction to Trump’s airstrikes over the weekend, which killed eight Somalis.
By Pulling Out Of The Paris Agreement, Trump Just Threw Away America’s Biggest Business Opportunity
Forget the security repercussions that come with ignoring the biggest climate security threat to humanity. Take only the business and economic argument, one President Trump should have little difficulty understanding or appreciating. On this argument alone, the Paris process was a substantive win, and to willfully unwind it is fiscally irresponsible.
Inciting Soldiers to Rape in the Philippines
Duterte offered immunity to soldiers that commit rape in the current anti-terror campaign in Mindanao. It could make him liable for indictment for war crimes.