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Wed, October 18, 2017 | 09:29

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Never too late to mend

Of late, unprecedented natural catastrophes have continuously taken place, unlike before, in almost every corner of the earth. What is the cause of this situation? Undeniably, everything exists according to the natural law of cause and effect. Perhaps, are certain unknown, natural undue irregularities or some unnatural human artificiality to blame for this? Anyhow, unless thi...

Guest Column | 2017-09-21 16:50

Who's the madman, Kim or Trump?

President Donald Trump has hurled plenty of harsh words at North Korea before, but nothing approaches his promise at the United Nations today that if forced to defend itself or its allies, the United States would "totally destroy" the country. He did not promise a military response of unprecedented size and strength, as he has before. He did not even threaten "fire and fury," as he had in some previous, ad libbed remarks. Speaking from a prepared speech in front of leaders and diplomats from more than 100 countries, the president of the United States pledged to wipe an entire nation off the ...

Guest Column | 2017-09-21 16:46

On North Korean economic sanctions

Every time North Korea conducts a nuclear or missile test, the U.S. and South Korea rush to impose economic sanctions, telling the world these harsh sanctions will force it to its knees. No matter how much you want to believe, reality on the ground tells us otherwise. The facts tell us that sanctions have failed to hurt North Korea’s nuclear establishment. Increasingly danger...

Guest Column | 2017-09-20 16:38

Are sanctions really the answer?

The U.N. has spoken: another round of sanctions to punish North Korea. It’s a quick fix, free of any moral obligation, to take care of a problem that just won’t go away. I’m not saying that these sanctions are irrelevant and they won’t work. I was relieved that the U.N. backed off with some of the more severe ones that would have hit the North Korean people more than the part...

Guest Column | 2017-09-19 16:46

Strike a deal with China

North Korea’s latest nuclear test has pushed the Trump administration into a near frenzy, even though America has lived with the threat of annihilation for more than a half century, starting when the Soviet Union built atomic weapons. President Donald Trump’s blustering and posturing have done more to unsettle America’s allies than frighten North Korea. Hopefully, the president’s promises of “fire and fury” and threats of military strikes are more rhetorical than real, given the horrendous consequences of triggering the Second Korean War. An isolated, even paranoid Pyongyang is likely to vie...

Guest Column | 2017-09-19 16:43

Trump's budget cuts

Back in May, President Donald Trump unveiled his 2018 budget to a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Key senators and congressmen declared it dead on arrival, which was their way of declaring they were far from embracing Trump's "Make America Great Again" populist fervor. Sure enough. As Congress puts the finishing touches on appropriations measures for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, very few of Trump's recommendations have survived. For all that Americans complain about federal spending, they don't want to see important programs cut.

Guest Column | 2017-09-19 16:42

Sanguine South and Wild West

A notable contrast arises whenever North Korea makes the international news: while Western government officials talk of armed conflict to prevent imminent nuclear danger and media channels talk of crazy undeterrable leaders bent on overthrowing the course of civilization, the people of South Korea buy coffee, update their Instagrams, and discuss whether the pop singer’s recen...

Guest Column | 2017-09-18 17:30

Car revolution to bring in zero-emission vehicles as public utility

France and the United Kingdom recently announced that they will ban the sales of petrol and diesel-engined cars from 2040. The lower house of the Dutch parliament has passed a law banning such sales from 2025. India says it will institute a similar ban by 2030. China, the world’s largest producer of cars - 28 million vehicles last year, more than the United States, Japan and Germany combined - is also planning to declare a ban soon, but is still working on the cut-off date. And in November the European Commission is going to debate a minimum annual quota of electric vehicles (EVs) for all Eu...

Guest Column | 2017-09-18 17:23

The sixteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and in the skies over Pennsylvania provides an opportunity for considered reflection. Time passing provides useful distance for relatively dispassionate discussion of how we have responded to the shocking, grotesque m...

Guest Column | 2017-09-17 17:50

Don't step back on cannabis

Never mind what President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail. His administration and GOP leaders appear determined to eliminate protections for medical marijuana growers, sellers and users. Every year since 2014, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, has inserted an amendment into a federal spending bill to prevent the Justice Department from prosecuting medical marijuana businesses that comply with their state's laws. It's been a temporary but necessary fix to address a fundamental contradiction: that even though 26 states have legalized medical marijuana, the drug is still prohibited u...

Guest Column | 2017-09-17 17:47

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