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22. John J. Metzler

After Afghanistan; global conflicts widen, endure, spread

It's been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration's appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America's longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic myopia it glaringly manifested, the Afghan debacle incentivized what political scientists dub “bad actors,” such as Russia and Communist China.

2023-09-10 16:35

Shining light on North Korea's human rights violations

Most countries politely prefer to look the other way when it comes to confronting widespread reports of North Korean human rights violations. After all, what can you do about what goes on in one of the world's most closed and repressive communist regimes?

2023-08-29 16:35

American films still hold sway in France

PARIS- “Barbie” has charmed Paris. The pink hued doll figure come alive in its blockbuster movie rendition has captured the hearts and imagination of the French film viewers during the second post-COVID summer. Next, after the syrupy saccharine adventures of “Barbie” comes the cerebral but dark “Oppenheimer,” the story of the developer of the Atomic Bomb. And third,the perpetual and popular adventure movie “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.”

2023-08-23 16:35

Putin's Sahel proxy confronts France, US

The recent military coup d'etat in Niger, a vast and arid land on the southern tier of the Sahara, underscores the widening political crisis in Africa's Sahel region, where instability, dire poverty and Islamic jihadi terrorism, have stalked the land.

2023-08-17 16:00

Paris Olympic countdown raises rights concerns

The one-year countdown for the opening of the Paris Summer Olympics has begun.

2023-08-13 14:06

Russia plays 'hunger games' with global grain supplies

The Russians are acting more and more like the Soviets. Their brutal war in Ukraine underscores the point that Moscow's ambitions are not only military but counter-humanitarian too.

2023-08-03 15:55

US rejoins UNESCO; pay at door

UNESCO has equally designated unique foods as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage; Ukrainian Borsht soup, the delicious French baguette and Korean kimchi. All good.

2023-07-12 16:35

Security Council carousel

In one of the more predictable rites of spring at the United Nations, the General Assembly has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful 15-member Security Council.

2023-06-20 16:30

Myanmar military regime backed by Russia, China: UN Report

It's hardly a surprise, but an affirmation of the obvious. Myanmar's military regime is being backed, supported and protected by both Russia and China. What's new is that the specifics of this assistance have come to light in a landmark U.N. report uncovering the extent of arms and munitions transfers to Myanmar, the Southeast Asian state beset by longtime military rule, amid spurts of democratic governance, but overall isolation and indifference.

2023-05-28 16:25

Synergy, strength, dynamism; South Korea-US alliance at 70

Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance between friends. There are few in the world notably including the Atlantic Alliance, forming NATO in 1949. But in the case of East Asia, the strategic and economic links which emerged from the cauldron of the Korean War ending in 1953, created an extraordinary success story recently celebrated by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to Washington, D. C.

2023-05-04 16:30

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