Reading Time: 5 minutes Hundreds of thousands of World Cup soccer fans will buy tickets to sit in stadiums being built in Russia and Qatar with slave labour
Author: Joseph Micallef
Saving the euro: Why Germany must bring back the mark
Reading Time: 5 minutes Germany must exit the increasingly dysfunctional eurozone to allow its other members to benefit from a cheaper euro
Putin’s risky Syrian gambit is not serving him well
Reading Time: 7 minutes While former KGB agent Vladimir Putin no longer reports to anyone, that doesn’t mean a demotion might not be in his future
Mystery still swirls around Hitler’s death 72 years later
Reading Time: 10 minutes Barring the release of some smoking gun document buried in intelligence archives, the question of whether Hitler died in his bunker will probably never be settled
The 100-day dash: how much did Trump accomplish?
Reading Time: 6 minutes On foreign policy, Trump has acted aggressively. On domestic policy, the record is mixed. But he has moved with force to reverse environmental protections
Looking for lines in the sand in Syria
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s troubling is the abrupt manner in which the Trump administration reversed policy on Syria. Assad’s barbarism is not exactly news
Can Russia and the United States be allies?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Expanded co-operation with the West and an increase in Russia’s role in combatting jihadism would come at a steep price — for both sides
After the fall: the Islamic State’s next chapter
Reading Time: 4 minutes The collapse of the Islamic State nation will have a profound effect on the organization but it will not eliminate its ongoing presence
Radical Islam and the war on terror: do names matter?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Terror is not an ideology or a set of beliefs. It’s not an organization, a government or a state against which one can wage war. Terror is a tactic
China’s One Belt, One Road strategy threat to Canadian trade
Reading Time: 4 minutes China likely to focus more on Asia and the Indian Ocean basin for its commodity needs and less on North America