The UK Falls Into an Elephant Trap of Its Own Making on Brexit

It is the quiet before the storm on Brexit. After a three-week summer break, UK and EU negotiators reconvene this week for another round of talks. They have just several weeks to overcome the key obstacles to a deal—disagreements on … Read More

EU-Italy delegation in Tunisia to discuss slowing migration

Tunisian Interior and Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi, right, greets Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio at Tunis Carthage airport in Tunis, Monday. (AP) Talks to focus on broader European aid to fight the poverty and joblessness that fuels it TUNIS: … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 14 August 2020

posted in: News, Weekly Update

Greetings from Tyler, It’s been ages since we’ve had even the slightest whiff of good news.  But in the last 24 hours something has happened that the media has no choice but to tell us.  Within a week or so … Read More

NFL will not hold live national anthem performances in 2020 due to COVID-19, per report

posted in: Breaking News, News

The league ‘could also curtail the on-field access of live military and police honor guards’ The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is expected to severely limit, if not eliminate, fan attendance at NFL games during the 2020 season, but fans won’t … Read More

After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared

The number of immigrants arrested at the southwestern border has more than doubled since the spring, fueled by Mexico’s economic slump and a Trump administration policy that migrants say works in their favor. Men who had been returned to Nogales, … Read More

Chicago Business Owners Fear Impact of More Looting

posted in: News, United States

A window is shattered at a Timberland store along Michigan Avenue after it was looted on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Chicago continues to brace for more looting as business owners fear the long-term impact of … Read More

North Korea Most Certainly Has a Coronavirus Problem

Can the impoverished country pull through the pandemic if widespread outbreaks occur? North Korean state media has publicly admitted the likely presence of coronavirus in the country, reversing Pyongyang’s longstanding and widely doubted claim of no coronavirus cases within its borders. … Read More

Trump and Biden take sharply different paths on immigration

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s push to crackdown on illegal immigration and reshape legal immigration was at the heart of the Republican’s winning 2016 campaign and has remained at the forefront of his White House agenda. Former Vice President Joe … Read More

Avoiding the Japanification of Europe

posted in: European Union, News

BOLOGNA — As monetary and fiscal authorities have acted aggressively to blunt the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact, public debt and central-bank balance sheets have swelled rapidly. In the European Union, this trend is compounded by a new 750 billion euros … Read More

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