By Chris Ogunmodede. Judging Barack Obama’s foreign policy in the first term is no easy feat. To be sure, there are the accomplishments, such as the negotiation of a new START treaty with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, his authorisation of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, and his adminstration overseeing the conclusion of the …
Political commentary on the 2012 US Presidential Election by US citizen Christopher Ogunmodede In order to understand perfectly the flaws and delusions of the American two-party system, just take a look at the inanity and dog-and-pony show that is the presidential “debates”. Organised by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a non-profit which purports to establish a …
By Christopher Ogunmodede. In the wake of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s failed six-point Syria peace plan and the Assad’s regime not-so-subtle admission that it possesses chemical weapons, the stakes of a Western-led military intervention have increased significantly in less than a week. A report by the Royal United Services Institute noting the possibility of chemical …
By Christopher Ogunmodede. In superlative, triumphant periods of sustained euphoria, there are those incidents and events, minor and major, which force us to reflect on the challenges ahead and ponder ideas which we might not have thought about. The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States was supposed to usher …
