The Withdrawal After two decades in Afghanistan, the U.S. is pulling out amid increasing Taliban battlefield gains at the expense of the Afghani government. The biggest highlight of the American withdrawal operations over the last two weeks was abandoning ‘Bagram Air Base’, the main staging ground for U.S. military operations in the country. According to...
World Matters starts with the sobering message that, despite growing interest in sustainability, things are still going from bad to worse. This is caused by population growth, a consumption-driven economy, and our inability to accept that there is a single dominant global currency which is also the reserve currency. This article will grab any travelers’,...
It’s in the beginning of March when news about US and China’s contention started to pop-up as The Biden Administration is putting efforts to limit China’s access to technology by revealing a plan to rally an alliance of nations to fight for an edge in various technological areas. However, after the sanctions imposed by the...
Since the beginning of the year, the world had been witnessing exceptional developments as the pandemic casted its shadow on every aspect of human life, be it the transition to working from home, the closure of restaurants, cafes, or the lack of travelling and mobility across borders. In the United States, the retreat of normalcy...
متانة العلاقات لا تتأثر جذرياً باختلاف الإدارات العلاقات السعودية-الأمريكية من أمتن الشراكات التقليدية في الواقع السياسي الدولي منذ منتصف القرن الماضي. وكان ذلك هو الحال في ظل كل من الإدارات الجمهورية والديمقراطية المتعاقبة، إذ لم يؤثر اختلاف الإدارات في الصورة الكبيرة لهذه الشراكة. وكذلك هو الحال حالياً إذ لا يمكن أن تتأثر في إجمالها الشراكة...
In an unprecedent turn of events oil prices have fallen to below zero. That’s right – US oil has reached an all-time low of -38.76 USD (at 3:32 pm New York time) meaning that producers are actually paying customers to take their oil. The world is going quite upside down and we are bearing witness...
In March 2020, AI and technology were a very useful tool for the South Korea to survive new Coronavirus (COVID-19), the country used all their technological efforts and advanced digital platform for big data to control in a short term the raising of stress and detect possible clusters of the virus and areas in risk.[1]...
In this year’s Iranian parliamentary elections, that took place in February and resulted in the victory of the hard-liners, the voter turnout was 42.6% (the lowest since the 1979 revolution with the rate as little as about 25% in the capital). This record low rate was a normal prognosis of the current political setting in Iran. First, there is a big...
The term American exceptionalism had surfaced and re-surfaced frequently in political debates about the American politics. Notwithstanding varying definitions and conceptualization it had a constant component of it that it referred to the exceptionalism of the American case vis-vis other nations. However, America under trump has a different form of that exceptionalism however, vis-à-vis America...
Throughout the history of the American mediation in peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the United States had often leaned in one way or another towards Israel’s wants at the expense of the Palestinian side. Because of the world’s current political reality, the Palestinians had long accepted this playbook with a grain of...
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