When I first arrived in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, Margaret Thatcher, the iron lady, was about to take over as prime minister and the first woman to rule Britain from Downing Street.
She succeeded the Labor’s James Callahan, whose term saw an irreversible split between the Labor Party a...
There are days, events, and people in human history that are known as good omens because they affect the lives of countries and, by extension, all of humanity. Conversely, insofar as the events of the Ukraine war are not insignificant incursions, but the most dangerous since World War II. They have...
With the Russian-Ukrainian conflict entering its tenth month, the lack of any hope for a diplomatic or military solution, and the arrival of all parties to a dead end, it has become clear that this war has become a game of finger-biting, not between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and NATO an...
Autumn has arrived early in Europe this year, and its withered yellow leaves fell in a scene that aligns nature with the destructive effect of the Ukraine war on European economy. It also coincides with the pessimistic expectations of an economic depression accompanied by political failures, strikes...
When Mikhail Gorbachev passed away last August, he was buried quietly after a formal funeral which was not attended by Putin, not because of he was busy with the war in Ukraine, but due to the unpopularity of the last Soviet communist leader who left the Kremlin in a state of darkness after the Supr...
The role of fate plays a significant role in the lives of people, such as the ascension of Nasser Salah al-Din to the throne of Egypt after the death of his uncle, Asad al-Din Shirkuh, the inauguration of Sultan Fuad I as Sultan of Egypt, the succession of al-Nahhas Basha to Saad Zaghloul, and Anwar...
In a globalized world where social media platforms are prevailing and adding to life’s complexity, humans are left prey to invisible stress that snaps at our minds, breaks our hearts, and distracts our thoughts except for those who are endowed with a spiritual shield that protects their minds from g...
The world appears to be either prematurely aging or completely insane. After a long period of cold peace from the end of World War II until the 1970s, Richard Nixon, then US President, visited China on the advice of Henry Kissinger, who served as his Secretary of State and National Security Adviser....
Boris Johnson thought for a while there that he is Margaret Thatcher and forgot that history only repeats itself in the form of disaster. Therefore, he started beating the drums of war in Ukraine, urged the United States to take arms, and called on the heads of the Old Continent to stand in the face...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth month with no sign of a near end to this global crisis, which is likely to develop into a third world war, if not with weapons, then over food and the specter of economic stagnation that began with Covid 19. Has the world lost its mind, or have the r...