Missing Joe Biden
Outgoing (it pains me deeply to write that) Vice President Biden once stated, “Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable". If anybody lived out that mantra, it was our vice president, and for that, I…
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Does the UN do Anything? A Review of 2016
The newly-elected United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off the new year with a stirring speech, highlighting the importance of overcoming differences and working as a team in “putting peace first”. Guerres offers an…
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Are We Ready for More Open Borders?
With the political events in 2016, I found myself in a liberal bubble. We assumed that the world is ready for more global interactions and acceptance, but this may not be the case.
To clarify, the premise of my title question does…
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Artificial Intelligence and Job Security
In January 2017, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, a life insurance company based in Japan, has announced plans to replace 34 of its workers with Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines. The technology that will be replacing the workers is IBM’s…
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A Crisis in Two Parts: Mongolia’s Buddhism Question and its Economic Failings
On Friday, November 18, 2016 the 14th Dalai Lama arrived in Ulan Bator to begin a four-day pastoral visit in Mongolia, a Buddhist-majority country. During his visit, he spoke to followers at the Gandantegchinlen monastery on the topic of…
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Saudi Arabia and the Plight of the Arms Trade Treaty
Coalition airstrikes lead by Saudi Arabia in support of deposed President Hadi against Houthi rebels have caused an estimated 3,800 civilian deaths in Yemen in since March 2015. According to publicly available data, Saudi efforts received…
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UN Israeli Settlement Resolution: Obama and Trump Continue to Clash Over Foreign Policy
It appears that in the weeks preceding the inevitable onslaught of a Trump presidency, soon to be former President Barack Obama is taking several steps to prepare the United States and the world for Trump’s confrontational approach to…
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Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of African Refugees: The Contradiction between Jewish State and Democracy
July 15th, 2013 marked exactly 75 years to the day after the Evian conference of 1938, which was held in an attempt to manage the outflow of Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. State representatives at the Evian conference…
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Canadian Complacency: Trudeau in the Trump Era
“We’re actually closer than friends. We’re more like siblings,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a state dinner in Washington with U.S. President Barack Obama last March. Brothers we may be, and yet our sibling nations seem to be…
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The Rise of Reactionaries: An End to Ideological Politics?
Seventeen years ago, the twenty-first century was given a rousing reception, seen as the harbinger of hopeful times in the West after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, unrelenting reference has been made to the implications of the…
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