Obama in his farewell UN address stresses democracy remains the ‘firmest foundation for human progress’
Barack Obama
UNITED NATIONS, United States: President Barack Obama used his farewell UN address Tuesday to castigate strongmen and populists, taking aim at Vladimir Putin’s Soviet nostalgia and Donald Trump’s rise at home.
Obama told the UN General Assembly that democracy remains the ‘firmest foundation for human progress’ as he repudiated ‘crude populism’ that has mushroomed in the United States and around the world.
“Some argue the future favors the strongman,” Obama said, in remarks that will echo in the 2016 US campaign as much as the Kremlin, or …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
