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Salt Lake Tribune (April 14)

2019/ 04/ 16 by jd in Global News

The Trump administration has “no plan” to address the immigration crisis. “This president has done nothing but rant about his own failures both privately and publicly…. It is not hyperbole to say that the nation, through its top executive, has cast aside law and order in favor of despotism. The problem is that this president is not even a good despot.”

 

The Economist (January 10)

2015/ 01/ 12 by jd in Global News

“North Korea’s strange juggling act is becoming ever more precarious. The hubbub over The Interview has attracted unwanted attention. “Just because Mr Kim runs a paranoid, delusional despotism, does not mean that the outside world is not out to get him.” In fact, it increasingly seems “the comforting calculation for North Korea’s regime—that, painful though its existence is to its people and the outside world, its collapse would be worse—may not hold for ever in Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington.”

 

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