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Trump's 'America First' in overdrive
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 23/01/2026
» President Donald Trump's extraterritorial capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife on cocaine-trafficking and terrorism-related charges earlier this month and repeated demand to take over Greenland at the World Economic Forum this week are part and parcel of a belligerent and transformative "America First" paradigm that dates back at least four decades.
Data war risks creating false calm
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 19/08/2025
» Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could suppress volatility today but lead to seismic reality checks in the future.
Can a country build its own social media?
News, Sebastian Vogelsang, Published on 26/07/2025
» When I built my first website back in 1998, the internet felt expansive. You could publish something in Berlin, and someone in Boston or Belgrade might stumble on it within seconds. But today, as a small number of tech monopolies hoover up attention and strangle innovation, that spirit of connection has been lost.
White House taps O'Neill as next envoy to Thailand
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 11/07/2025
» The White House has nominated Sean Kotaro O'Neill as the next United States Ambassador to Thailand, replacing Robert F Godec, who has held the post since Oct 7, 2022.
We've all seen this war game play out before
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/06/2025
» I've seen this movie already. I don't want to see it again."They lied," said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in his own party who had started the "forever wars" in Afghanistan and Iraq. "They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none."
Emergency alert test alarms Thai public ... literally
News, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 13/05/2025
» Authorities on Tuesday conducted the third and final test of the new cell broadcast emergency alert system, causing alarm (literally) for many residents, despite weeks of advance notice.
US funding cuts for Aids-HIV fight
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 17/04/2025
» Thailand's success in battling the HIV/Aids epidemic has been due, in part, to two major sources of funding from the United States: the US President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
FBI agents in Jan 6 probes face dismissal: media reports
News, Published on 02/02/2025
» Washington: FBI agents who participated in the investigations that led to now-abandoned criminal charges against President Donald Trump are expected to be fired, US media reported Friday.
Forget American exceptionalism, it's a tri polar world
News, Jay Pelosky, Published on 11/01/2025
» In 2024, the watchword in financial markets was "American exceptionalism", as the US economy and markets left the rest of the world in the dust. But as the calendar turns, it may now be time to remove these geographic blinders to consider the larger regional competition likely to reshape the global economy in the coming years. We may be in the midst of a long-term global growth cycle driven by intensifying competition in the critical areas of artificial intelligence, green technology, and security between the world's three dominant regions: the Americas, Asia and Europe. (It's what I refer to as the Tri Polar World.)
Over in Canada, PM Trudeau bites the dust
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/01/2025
» Donald Trump excels in every field, including surrealism. Leonard Cohen sang "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin!", but it's completely outclassed by Mr Trump's "First we take Greenland, then we take Canada!" And he's going to take the Panama Canal too!