In a remarkable twist of irony, it was Donald Trump ~ not Mark Carney, nor Pierre Poilievre ~ who became the decisive figure in Canada’s recent federal election.
The massive power outage that plunged large swathes of Spain, Portugal, and parts of France into darkness this week is more than a regional mishap ~ it is a flashing red warning for the rest of the world.
Fuelling many such questions, a raging fire of anti Pakistan sentiment is burning fiercely in Balochistan. Thus, the politics of South Asia is gradually changing.
Frequent headlines of trade wars and real wars, economic disruptions and humanitarian disasters indicate a world that is in the midst of multiple crises.
US President Donald Trump’s first 100 days ~ completed on Tuesday ~ of his second term in office offer a revealing glimpse into a presidency shaped by an unusual combination of forceful action and sharp political division.
What was special about these cases of totalitarianism was their ideological and pseudodemocratic-cum-plebiscitary character. Here, much more radically than elsewhere, an extensive conformity of population, extending also to the social and intellectual spheres, was sought and achieved with all the means of mass indoctrination
Social media platforms have morphed into Frankensteins monsters. Scrolling and swiping culture has reduced our attention span. It has also deactivated our critical thinking and skills. Why bother when the matrix does the thinking. We are so dazzled by our spectacular successes that we may not notice if we have gone astray. Has deep thinking become a thing of the past?
There can be no absolute concept of minimum government. For example, apart from defence, foreign relations and currency management, the government needs to provide healthcare and education, and fulfil aspirations of the people. 'Minimum government and maximum governance' is an idea implying that government will be efficient, and that a smaller bureaucracy with more trained and skilled people will be more effective than a large and untrained one
With the help of an Egyptian snake charmer, who coaxed a dangerous snake out of its hole, he actually risked his life and held it in his arms for a few seconds.
In the spirit of full disclosure, and because the office may need to make adjustments for the person, employees should be able to freely disclose their mental health condition if they choose to do so or keep it private if they so choose as well.
