Year: 2022
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AMERICAS
Whither democracy?
In the year 2000 George W. Bush became the victor of an imperfect presidential election. The less than straightforward way…
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ASIA
Malaysia’s China dilemma
By Collins Chong Yew Keat Decades of progress are expected to yield the desired outcome in charting Malaysia’s own autonomous…
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EUROPE
Yugoslavia – was it ever ethnic war?
Serbia and Kosovo are at it again. The fragmentation of ex-Yugoslavia appears to be a story without end. Serbia is…
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EUROPE
Britain and the Queen’s legacies
By Collins Chong Yew Keat Queen Elizabeth II marked a defined distinction for her nation and the world. A symbol…
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HOME
I woke up a patriot…but at day’s end I became a threat to the “very soul of this country”?!
By Raphael Benaroya I woke up on September 1, 2022, as an American patriot and an advocate of democracy, with…
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AMERICAS
What is the Fourth Branch of the US government up to?
Wright Mills, in his book “The Power Elite” (1956), indicates that the key to understanding North American restlessness would be…
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ASIA
Is Beijing’s grip on Malaysia and the region inevitable?
By Collins Chong Yew Keat Has Malaysia’s true essence of Independence, recently celebrated in its 65th anniversary, be lost in the…
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ASIA
The U.S. must engage Tehran in dialogue before it is too late, or lose Iran to China’s emerging coalition
Behrooz Ayaz and Dr. Julian Spencer-Churchill The current U.S. administration must have the political will to pay the domestic political…
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HEALTH
Monkeypox and conspiracy theories
By Stig S. Frøland The world had just started recovering from the worst consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic when a…
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AMERICAS
How social stigmas contributed to the spread of monkeypox
We have not emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, yet there is another rapidly rising cause for concern. While monkeypox is…
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