Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Why a Trump Presidency Scares Those Longing for Democracy in the Former Soviet Union
Image: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, left, gives his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, a thumbs up after Pence addressed the Republican National Convention. Author: A. Shaker/VOA. Public Domain I watch the polls in the American presidential race go up and down with dismay. My heart leaps when Hillary Clinton surges but...
Israeli-Palestinian struggle returns to the soccer pitch
By James M. Dorsey Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused world soccer body FIFA of allowing FIFA-sanctioned matches to be played on occupied land in the West Bank in violation of FIFA rules and has demanded that the group ensure that future games be staged within the borders of Israel prior to the 1967 Middle East war. The HRW allegations bring to...
Our Eternal Enemy: We Must Stop the New Cold War
By David Wemer When nineteen-year-old American swimmer Lilly King emerged from the pool after winning the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the Rio Olympics, she became not only a gold-medalist, but also a heroine for the anti-steroid movement. Her victory over Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, came amid King’s outspoken criticism of the...
Clinton And Trump, Call Your Office: America’s Bipartisan Policy Of Perpetual War Has Failed To Deliver Peace
The last three administrations have followed a bipartisan policy of constant war. Unfortunately, the consequences have been ugly: every intervention has laid the groundwork for more conflict. Yet the architects of this failure claim that all would be well if only Washington had acted more often and more decisively. In their view, the problem is...
Putin Sanctioned His Own People. But It Helped Him Win.
MOSCOW — On Sept. 18, the Russian Federation held elections for the seventh session of the lower house of parliament. The political body, known as the State Duma, will now consist of only four political parties and will be dominated by the current government’s party, United Russia, despite a noticeably declining standard of living...
Ending corruption will help deliver on our development promises: the Sustainable Development Goals one year on
Millions of people around the world could be lifted out of their daily hardship and misery if the money lost to corruption was invested in sustainable development. Every year an estimated $1 trillion of illicit financial flows leave developing countries in the form of tax evasion, embezzlement, bribes, money laundering and smuggling. That’s...
Why the World Needs a U.N. Secretary General From the Former East Bloc
Image: Some analysts believe a U.N. secretary general from Eastern Europe would stand up to aggressors better than the outgoing Ban Ki-moon. Author: Kremlin.ru Over the last few days, world leaders have been flocking to New York to take part in the 71st meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, where crises such as the Syrian conflict and...
Why President Obama Has Difficulty Garnering Respect Internationally
As President Obama gives his valedictory speech to the United Nations General Assembly and has recently returned from a farewell tour of East Asia, it sure seems like other countries were dissing him. Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines–a small, poor country that has a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea and...
My Disappointment in Obama’s Foreign Policy
This week, President Obama has been talking up his foreign policy accolades in New York and sending his surrogates to applaud all of his many successes, from opening up Cuba to inking the Iran nuclear deal. The trouble is the gaping wound that goes untreated in the cradle of our civilization: Syria. Overlooking this, or at least failing to even...
How A Viral Video Set Sergei Polunin On A Path To Revolutionizing Ballet
In February 2015, renowned American photographer David LaChapelle quietly released a video on the internet.In it, Ukrainian-born Sergei Polunin ― one of the most famous ballet figures in the world ― dances alone to Irish singer-songwriter Hozier’s “Take Me To Church.” The bluesy, gospel-like folk song bellows in the background as Polunin...
