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A homeless woman and her two children in the US. AP file photo


How to Clear our Minds

How to Clear our Minds

When it comes to economics, we spend most of our time thinking about better ways to organize human activity. This is the main purpose of debates about minimum wage, universal health care, deregulation, taxes and other common economic policies. But it’s worth...
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A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during clashes with the Syrian regime in the Salaheddine neighborhood of central Aleppo August 7, 2012. (Reuters)


A Moscow-Based Overview for Changes in Syria

A Moscow-Based Overview for Changes in Syria

“Tangible change has been recently witnessed concerning Syria’s ongoing crisis.” – Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vitaly Naumkin Syria’s course of negotiations was recently split into a three-way axis: Geneva,...
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The problem isn’t the boat. Photographer: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images


An EU Rubber-Boat Ban Won’t Stop Migrants

An EU Rubber-Boat Ban Won’t Stop Migrants

If it looks as though Europe is clutching at straws to stop hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants from crossing the Mediterranean into Italy every day, that’s exactly what’s happening. On Monday, the European Union’s foreign ministers approved...
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US President Donald Trump. REUTERS/Eric Thayer


Trump Kicks the Iranian ‘Can’ Down the Road

Trump Kicks the Iranian ‘Can’ Down the Road

Over the past six months, in one way or another, President Donald Trump has kicked several of the cans inherited from Barack Obama down the road. After several attempts at abolishing it, the so-called Obamacare has been kicked into legislative oblivion. Obama’s policy...
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Playing the long game. Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images


Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal

Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal

Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine. Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months the State Department would inform Congress that the Tehran government was in compliance. Then Donald Trump was elected president. He had...
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US Ex-Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian counterpart Jawad Zarif shake hands, AFP


Iran’s Nuclear Deal Is Two Years Old

Iran’s Nuclear Deal Is Two Years Old

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last” (Winston Churchill) Marking two years since Iran’s nuclear deal (JCPOA), we would be badly mistaken if we assumed that the ‘architects’ of Barack Obama’s policy of handing over the keys of the...