North Korea has accepted an offer to attend high-level talks next week, South Korean officials have said. The meeting, on 9 January, will focus on finding a way for North Korean athletes to attend the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea in February. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said this week that sending a delegation… Read more.
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Turns Out Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Is Just an Explosive Book about Him
President Trump famously threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” if it continued testing nuclear weapons and threatening to annihilate the United States. But North Korea called his bluff … repeatedly. Therefore, the irony cannot be lost even on this blowhard that he’s the one now wilting under Fire and Fury. What’s more, this only… Read more.
Netanyahu Deporting Blacks To Preserve White Character of Jewish State
I took a lot of flak for characterizing Netanyahu’s Israel as follows in “Israel Votes to Become More Like (old) Apartheid South Africa,” March 18, 2015. ____________________ Election Day in Israel yesterday was full of surprises; none more so than the desperate declarations and exhortations Bibi Netanyahu made to get his supporters to the polls.… Read more.
The Trump Presidency: An Overview
President Trump continues to command unprecedented attention. Never mind that this is because he’s wreaking the kind of havoc in the world of politics that a tornado wreaks in the alley of the Great Plains. But only this havoc explains the worldwide rubbernecking at his black-swan, norm-busting presidency – complete with his snarky tweets and… Read more.
American-Style Protests Erupt in Iran…
Which shows that Iran is more like America than most Americans, including President Donald J. Trump, realize. I was among far too few Western commentators who hailed Iranians for electing the moderate Hassan Rouhani as president in August 2013. But nothing vindicated our praise quite like Rouhani accepting President Obama’s overtures to strike a landmark… Read more.