Guterres and Putin would do well to take a leaf out of his book to end the war in Ukraine

“On the 12th of June 1812 millions of men crossed the frontiers of Russia, and war began. Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, deceptions, treacheries, robberies, forgeries, issues of false monies, depredations, incendiarisms and murders as the annals of all the courts of justice in the world could not muster in whole centuries”. That...

The answer might have something to do with poetry and verbiage

On a combustibile moment such as this, with Putin’s Ukrainian war poisoning the atmosphere,what could America and Russia still have in common? Experimental poetry is the unlikely answer. And, even more unlikely, it took a bunch of devoted  Italian experimentalists to pose the question, amidst a cacophony of voices, sounds,...

What’s wrong with American democracy? Two books that recently appeared, Power Politics: Trump and the Assault on American Democracy by Darrell M. West, and Divided We Fall by David A. French, are trying to cut through the fog of mutual obfuscation by the opposing factions of democrats and republicans in...

When will the war Between Russia and Ukraine end, and how? “Don’t ask” is the unhelpful reply on which Moscow, Washington and Kiev might not disagree. Thinking the unthinkable is not a skill in which political leaders excel. Short-term calculations prevail among practitioners of the dark art of the possible....

Politics today is no longer what in simpler times was optimistically known as the art of the possible. “Art of the impossible”as a definition would be far more appropriate. Consider  the unenviable plight of President Biden who is increasingly challenged on multiple fronts. With the midterm election  approaching, he is...

More than three months have elapsed and there’s no end is in sight for the devastatingly vicious Ukrainian war. In addition to the incommensurable human costs, the economic consequences of the conflict are going to be dire. They will inevitably weigh down the global economy for a long time, with...

How is the war going to end in Ukraine, and what exactly does the West want in Ukraine? The question, while the fiercest war since the end of WW II is exploding in the center of Europe, in a rational world ought to be addressed with the maximum urgency. Surely,...

Putin’s gamble is failing.  And this is where the real danger for world peace begins. The president and commander-in-chief of the second nuclear superpower, with his ill-fated Ukrainian war of aggression, has shown to the world he is no Suvorov,  the legendary Russian general who never lost a battle. His...