United States

Growing out of US leadership

Nov 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Adair Turner Donald Trump’s election has been greeted around the world with justifiable bewilderment and fear. His victory — following a fact-free, vicious election campaign — has trashed the brand of American democracy.  But while Trump is impulsive and occasionally vindictive — a potentially fatal […]

Poor legacy

Nov 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL At a press conference held on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Peru last week, US President Barack Obama showed gloom and doom about the Syrian situation and gave the distinct impression that Washington was and is helpless about doing […]

Trump from different Arab angles

Nov 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States represents the start of a new phase following eight years of Obama’s administration.  His win has surprised many people, but Trump the candidate will be very different from Trump the president. […]

From the CIA to the GFE

Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]