Yesterday, President Trump vetoed his second bill as president. S. J. Res. 7 directed the president to cease US military activities in support of the Saudi war on Yemen and his veto signifies that he intends to continue in a war that he may not have started but that...
On his Latin American "overthrow Venezuela" tour, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hammered China, accusing it of "prolonging" the regime by continuing to trade and invest with the Maduro government. The Chinese shot back at him over the preposterous claim, wondering...
A little more than a decade ago, I was asked to address a London dinner-table of about twenty Gulf “figures” – a mix of Ambassadors and those with “ties to power”. All represented the cosmopolitan, rich élite of the Gulf. Then, towards the evening’s end, talk turned...
