US President-elect Donald Trump is in an unusual position - trying to please both billionaire tech guys who fund his campaigns and his hard-core base. Immigration and the H1B visa have become contentious among Trump's core supporters and moderates.
In other words, with huge uncertainty in the geopolitical situation, financial markets have become speculative, as investors seek higher risk, short-term returns, even as the Fed has cut interest rates four times since September but hinted at only limited cuts next year.
Four decades after the catastrophic gas leak that devastated Bhopal, the recent removal of toxic waste from the Union Carbide plant marks a small yet significant step in addressing the lingering fallout of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.
As the war in Ukraine grinds into its third year, the shifting dynamics of international politics and battlefield realities could make 2025 a pivotal year.
Lea Ypi, professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, believes a new “European militarism” has not only empowered the radical right but also undermined the very ideals that made the European Union such an attractive proposition.
In 2021, he highlighted Nato’s rising military threat on his country’s western borders and demanded legal guarantees for Russia.
Interestingly, the four top party posts are all occupied by men. The new Cabinet has only two women as members, a sad reflection of male-dominated ruling politicians’ attitude.
No doubt, Nepal also needs to make its stand on the BRI unequivocally clear since she signed it in May 2017.
Freedom from terrorism is just one important element in the larger scheme of things - climate emergency, unprecedented economic crisis, massive social breakdown, to list just a few.
Many groups/communities that expose state violence, Islamophobia, social injustices, unequal pay, envionmental degradation, Israeli colonial practices and racism are labelled as deviant.
