Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS

America’s bloodiest war, the Civil War, which ended in the Spring of 1865 with a combined death toll of between 752,000 and 861,000, and President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, brought an end to slavery in the U.S. But it wasn’t until 19 June 1865 that the last slaves, in Galveston, Texas, finally got word...

The Biden administration is changing the face of America’s military presence around the world, and the latest evidence of this is in the withdrawal of U.S. missile systems from a number of countries.  The Wall St. Journal reports, on 19 June, that Patriot anti-missile batteries are being pulled from countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq...

As we reported in the Trends Journal in February 2019, Algeria was being rocked by protests following the decision by then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term. His regime was accused of having taken control of revenues from the country’s natural resources and used them to pay off political cronies and financial supporters....

It was the big news last week blasted across the mainstream media. President Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Geneva and warned the Russian leader—who he referred to as a “worthy adversary”—about cyberattacks and the treatment of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Biden was asked by reporters after the meeting about...

As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, since 1 February, tens of thousands of protesters in Myanmar have taken to the streets to fight for democracy after a military coup overturned recent election results and arrested the civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who reportedly won by a landslide this past November. Since...

Ebrahim Raisi, who was accused of being involved in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, won a landslide victory in the Iranian presidential election, prompting officials in Israel to issue a warning to the new administration. “There will be no choice [now] but to go back and prepare attack plans for...

A recent poll conducted by Data for Progress found that 55 percent of American voters said they would support a bill that would prevent Israel “from spending U.S. taxpayer dollars on: military detention of Palestinian children; the seizure or destruction of Palestinian property and homes; or, support for Israel’s annexation of Palestinian territory.” The Times...

Last week, the Trends Journal had forecast that Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that replaced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would be “more of the same” for the country. We reported that Bennett, who will only serve two years as prime minister under the coalition’s arrangement, has indicated that he will take a bellicose approach to Gaza....

As we have continually noted over the years, President Dwight David Eisenhower, who, as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and two term U.S. president had warned the nation in his 17 January 1961 farewell address that the military/industrial complex was robbing the nation of the genius of the scientists, sweat of the labors...