In the United States, a President can only serve for two, 4 year terms so whatever happens in November, Barak Obama will finish his second term and his presidency will become the subject of historians. As the U.S. presidential election approaches its frenetic sprint to November, Obama has become somewhat reflective and is increasingly speaking […]
The U.N. Climate Summit: Geopolitical Games
100 world leaders reportedly attended last Tuesday’s session at the United Nations Climate Summit and were joined by Leonardo DiCaprio who has been named the UN’s Ambassador for Peace for the next year. Since 1998 Dicaprio, like his character Jay Gatsby, has earned respectability and praise by spending part of his fortune estimated at $220 million. While […]
Time to Partition Iraq?
Perhaps the wisest thing the international community could do would be to give up on a map drawn by Europeans and use its influence to create stable countries for each of Iraq’s three parts …
Obama will now focus on Climate Change
With two and a half years in office and no possibility of re-election Barak Obama is turning to make the fight against climate change a key piece of his legacy …
Obama and Climate Change
This week I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a course at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and it is wonderful to be back in a place where little seems to have changed since lived here with my family 20 years ago. Harvard Square is still full of students of all shapes and sizes and while Mimi’s […]
