Observations of an Expat: America on Trial
By Tom Arms Donald Trump is on trial in the US Senate. The Republican Party is on trial. America is on trial. The likely verdicts...
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Observations of an Expat: Covid Battles and Diplomacy
BY TOM ARMS Squabbles, soft diplomacy, hard diplomacy, and even harder economics are all playing unseemly and seemly roles in the life-saving scramble for coronavirus...
Observations of an Expat: High Hopes, Low Expectations
BY TOM ARMS Trump is gone. He boarded Air Force One on Wednesday and flew off into the Florida sunset. Biden is now the President...
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Observations of an Expat: Banana America
BY TOM ARMS Donald J. Trump’s political career is very likely over. But Trumpism lives on. The disrupter-in-chief, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire and the world’s most...
Observations of an Expat: Pakistan—Next to Recognise Israel?
BY TOM ARMS Wafting through the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and across the parade ground of military headquarters in Rawalpindi is an interesting political...
Observations of an Expat: Development Aid
By Tom Arms This week the British government announced that it planned to cut its overseas aid budget by 0.2 per cent or about $4...
Observations of an Expat: Ethiopia
BY TOM ARMS Ethiopian Nobel peace prize winner Abiy Ahmed is planning—hoping with fingers and toes crossed—for a speedy and decisive end to his dispute...
Observations of an Expat: 2024
BY TOM ARMS There are few certainties in American politics at the moment, but I think we can say (with fingers and toes crossed) that...
Observations Of An Expat: The Election
By Tom Arms Hope is a terrible emotion. It too often leads to despair. But an almost overwhelming hope is the dominant emotion for all...