For the first time in 67 years, the United States will not lead the United Nations migration agency. Isaacs is considered to hold opinions which run counter to the purpose of the agency, including his perspectives on Islam and climate change, which both happen to be major factors impacting the migration of peoples around the globe.
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A response to Pompeo’s ridiculous demands of Iran in order to avoid US sanctions has been issued by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif. The statement covers not only Trump’s erratic behaviour and his serial withdrawal to multilateral agreements, as well as the threats to other multinational organizations, but it also delves into the history of US-Iran relations going back a few decades, just in case Mke Pompeo happened to be suffering a bit of amnesia on the matter, or hasn’t bothered to read up on the subject.
Disruption, disturbance, eruption, the words crowning the presidency of Donald J. Trump, who has effectively demonstrated an idea made famous by Nazi doodler of law and political theorist Carl Schmitt: politics is defined, not by identifying with friends in cosy harmony but with enemies in constant tension.
The two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Qingdao, which took place last weekend from an economic standpoint, truly outplayed the G7 soap drama that took place in Canada.
China and India appear to be in the driver’s seat of the global economy for the balance of this 21st century. They, along with supportive Southeast Asian countries and with Russia as their vast and friendly neighborhood energy and natural resources supplier.
The effects on the G7 leaders may have looked like chaos, but in actuality Trump’s move to place America first jostled the other leaders’ priorities as well. Even Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel both made remarks pointing at the fact that is just as true for their countries as Trump’s are for America: We need to take care of our own.
With a historic week at the Toronto G7, and a North Korean summit in Singapore, now in the history books, it is more clear than ever that POTUS Trump is tearing down Obama’s neo-liberal “new world order” and replacing it with a “newer” world order that is closer aligned to realpolitik pragmatism, rather than his predecessors eight years of identity politics, moral exceptionalism, and humanitarian wars.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been quite vocal about the threats that US President Donald Trump’s economic policies pose to the world economic order.
She’s been criticizing Trump’s brand of protectionism and one-on-one take it or leave it style of diplomacy at nearly every turn here lately.
Liberal left hollywood actor Robert De Niro went on a virtue signaling rampage two days ago at the Tony Awards elicited a standing ovation from the audience when he declared “F**k Trump” before handing Bruce Springsteen an award.
In between his meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, US President Trump found the time to troll De Niro via twitter telling his followers that the unhinged hollywood icon is a “very Low IQ individual” who “has received to many shots to the head by real boxers in movies.”
