Watching America • 14th January 2020

Who Wants a War with Iran?

There are various regimes and leaders of different societies who, for different reasons, are thankful for the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Few rules are more certain in Middle Eastern politics than the question of who benefits from an attack. With the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, an unscrupulous strategist who brought together otherwise opposing armies, there are various regimes and leaders of different societies who, for different reasons, are thankful for his death.

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Watching America • 10th December 2019

China First

The Asian country’s network of diplomatic representation is now the best in the world, beating the U.S. for the first time

Donald Trump is shouting and waving that the U.S. is the “best,” with “America First,” but results show that China is advancing in the race. It has already beaten the U.S. in GDP, measured in purchasing capacity, car production, and the number of billionaires. Most recently, in a highly significant assessment conducted by an Australian think tank, China has been proven to b

Watching America • 22nd November 2019

Centrists, Progressives and Europhobia

Europe is touted as an example of how bad things happen when social justice is enthusiastically pursued.

Will the Democratic presidential candidate be a centrist or a progressive? Which of them would give the party a better chance in next year’s election? Honestly, I have no idea. What I can say, however, is that neither centrism nor progressivism is what it used to be. There was a time when discussions between centrists and progressives were framed as debates between realism and idealism. Toda

Watching America • 14th September 2019

The Number of Deaths Continues To Increase 18 Years after 9/11

New York remembers the emergency rescue workers who died from inhaling toxic particles released by the twin towers after they fell.

New York paused six times on Wednesday to observe a moment of silence in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks on the twin towers. During the ceremony, at the bottom of the Freedom Tower, the names of the 2,983 people who died were read. This has been the tradition for years. But 18 years after the attack, people continue to die in the city of skyscrapers.

This ye

Watching America • 9th August 2019

Moderate Democrats Attack the Progressive Turn of Sanders and Warren

The new round of debates to choose the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate turns on the centrists, who say that impossible promises will help Trump get reelected.

The differences between the centrist Democrats and the more left-leaning candidates resembled a head-on collision Tuesday night in Detroit. During the third pre-primary debate among the 2020 presidential candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who represent the more progressive side of the Democratic Party, were dire

Watching America • 5th July 2019

Donald Trump ‘Militarizes’ the 4th of July National Holiday

It all started on July 14, 2017. That day, Donald Trump was in Paris, invited by French President Emmanuel Macron. And the two, together, attended the Bastille Day parade.

The military deployment of the country that contributed to humanity the terms “Freedom, Equality and Fraternity,” and “Chauvinism” impressed the American president. So much that he himself said that the proto-Napoleon demonstration of the French “is one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen.” [https://www.nbcnews.com/politic

Watching America • 14th June 2019

What Is At Stake in Mexico’s Negotiations With the US? Human Dignity

The migration policy that Mexico has put into practice is far from the ideals proposed by López Obrador

Mexico has always negotiated with the United States from a position of weakness due to the simple fact that it depends much more economically and politically on the U.S. than the U.S. depends on Mexico. The threat of imposing tariffs on Mexican products is undoubtedly costly for Washington, as expressed by Republican businessmen and legislators who oppose Trump’s measures. Undoubtedly, this i

Watching America • 21st May 2019

The Cruelty of Anti-Choice – Watching America

The arguments occurring in the United States against women and their sexual and reproductive rights are loud echoes of the public debate in Colombia. The string of laws that in the U.S. have limited access to the voluntary ending of pregnancies resemble the recent attempts of several congressmen in our country (Colombia) to influence the Constitutional Court to alter its jurisprudence in this regard. If these attempts succeed, the result will be a disaster for the health and well-being of women,