UN Security Council Resolution 2334 criticised in NZ coalition agreement

Last week New Zealand’s new Prime Minister-elect, Jacinda Ardern, and New Zealand First leader and Deputy Prime Minister-elect, and likely Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, signed a coalition agreement, which revealed the full extent of the policy wins obtained by New Zealand First in return for enabling the Labour Party to form a government. Read more

A UN task for President Trump…Ben Cohen/JNS.org

For those of us who spent much of 2016, based upon then-candidate Donald Trump’s own bombastic declarations, worrying about the thrust of the foreign policy of a future Trump administration, President Trump’s address to Congress Feb. 28 provided welcome relief. Read more

Balagan…writes Michael Kuttner

Definition: “chaos, fiasco, bedlam, mess, foul up, a state of extreme confusion and disorder.” Read more