U.S. Credit Rating: American Hegemony in Decline?
President Barack Obama in the White House press briefing room Standard and Poor’s (S&P) have reduced America’s sovereign credit rating from AAA to AA+. The rating puts the U.S. on par with Kuwait...
View ArticleObama: Leading from behind on Syria
Funeral of Asem Bader Waw in Al Qsair killed during fighting. Image via Freedom House The Syrian leader is out of options and out of friends and it seems it is only now that the Obama administration...
View ArticleUNESCO Membership for Palestine may leave America Out in the Cold
UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has a number of objectives including: attaining education for all; mobilising science knowledge and policy for sustainable...
View ArticleIn Response to Houla Massacre Australia Expels Syrian Diplomats
Children killed in the Houla massacre. Image via Freedom House Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has expelled the Syrian Charge d’Affairs Jawdat Ali Syrian in the wake of the Houla...
View ArticleU.S. Credit Rating: American Hegemony in Decline?
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) have reduced America’s sovereign credit rating from AAA to AA+. The rating puts the U.S. on par with Kuwait and Taiwan. America’s $14.3 trillion debt makes “the world’s...
View ArticleObama’s ‘Lead from Behind’ Strategy in Syria
The Syrian leader is out of options and out of friends and it seems it is only now that President Barack Obama is talking tough on Syria. Obama has made America’s first explicit call for Syrian...
View ArticleUNESCO Membership for Palestine may leave America Out in the Cold
UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has a number of objectives including: attaining education for all; mobilising science knowledge and policy for sustainable...
View ArticleIn Response to Houla Massacre Australia Expels Syrian Diplomats
Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has expelled the Syrian Charge d’Affairs Jawdat Ali Syrian in the wake of the Houla massacre that have reportedly seen 32 children massacred in Syria in...
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