By John J. Metzler - GENEVA — In recent decades China has emerged as the factory to the world; a key player in production networks for automobiles, smartphones, computers, textiles and medical equipment.
Indeed, as the world’s second largest economy Mainland China has become an indispensable part of globalization’s network combining low wage levels, diverse production platforms, and good [...]
Sabrina Kessler (DW – New York) - As the presidential primaries start in the United States, left leaning candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren lead the polls. Some billionaires and investors are getting nervous — and making grim prophecies.
Broadcaster CNBC is not usually a place of great emotions. But at the end of last year [...]
WEBPUBLICAPRESS (New York) – Famous philosopher Gottfried Leibniz believed that from every tragedy, misfortune, or evil, there came a greater good. Whether or not we might agree, in this year of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the triumph over adversity which is Beethoven’s trademark should be the standpoint from which to view, and respond to, the shocking misfortune [...]
(WEBPUBLICA) New York – President Trump’s decision to kill a senior Iranian general “endangered Americans,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As the resolution makes its way to the Senate, two Republicans have pledged support for the bill, DW has reported quoting various news sources.
The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of a [...]
By John J. Metzler - NEW YORK — Peering into the crystal snow globe, it’s time to predict, prognosticate and presage into the year ahead. Without a pun we need the proverbial 2020 vision to decipher the political and security landscape that awaits us in the new year with both long running static conflicts and newly unpredictable crises.
Here [...]
By Borut Grgič *- First it was the U.S., already under the junior President George Bush and well before President Donald Trump, who declared NATO obsolete. Then a few weeks ago, the French president proclaimed it brain dead. Only for the two to meet last week in London for some more muscle flexing. But there is a real cost [...]
WEBPUBLICAPRESS (London/New York) – The US president called Macron’s “brain dead” NATO remarks “nasty,” saying he could see Paris leaving the alliance. The remarks set the tone for what is expected to be another tense summit among NATO allies, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported from British capital.
US President Donald Trump kicked off a tense two-day NATO summit on [...]
By Austin Davis and Anila Shuka (DW) – The appointment of the controversial US ambassador to Germany signals renewed American interest in solving the conflict. But it also has potential to further sour relations between Berlin and Washington.
President Donald Trump selected the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, as his administration’s special envoy between Serbia [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — In the wake of Iranian initiated missile/drone attacks which significantly crippled the Saudi Arabian petroleum industry and threatened to bring the Persian Gulf region closer to the brink of a military confrontation, the Trump Administration and its allies have pursued a tough but decidedly restrained policy of deterrence rather than [...]
By Kane Farabaugh – DECATUR, ILL. (VOA News) – Continuous wet weather disrupted the spring planting season for Southern Illinois farmer Jim Raben, meaning he is anticipating a lean harvest this year.
“For our area and probably for our farm, probably 20, 25% prevent plant,” he told VOA at the 2019 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois. [...]
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