by Heather Hastie | Mar 10, 2018 | Asia, International Politics, US Politics
Since long before he became president, Donald Trump has been attacking and insulting Kim Jong-un and North Korea. CNN has a new article that’s a compilation of ‘All the times President Trump has insulted North Korea’. As you can imagine,...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 21, 2018 | Asia, International Politics, Russia, Tweets, USA
One of my recent tweets is a just-released Gallup poll. Since 2001, Gallup has asked USians an open-ended question about their country’s enemies. That question is, “What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States’...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 27, 2017 | Asia, Russia, Tweets
I prepared the tweets for this post yesterday, but then the efforts of the previous few days overcame me. Translation: I spent the remaining three hours of the afternoon asleep! I haven’t looked at Twitter yet today, so some of the tweets may be out of date....
by Heather Hastie | Aug 14, 2017 | Asia, International Politics, US Politics
Originally, this post was a fuller analysis of the North Korea crisis. However, it became extremely long, so I’m chopping it into smaller posts. One section of the main post was a look at the way President Trump is handling the affair personally. It’s...
by Heather Hastie | May 3, 2017 | Asia, International Politics, USA
On Saturday morning New Zealand time, North Korea carried out its latest missile test – a modified mobile Scud which it launched towards the Sea of Japan. The test was a failure – the missile blew up over North Korean territory. The fact there was a test,...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 25, 2017 | Africa, Asia, Health, Religion, USA, Women
Across the world, around 200 million women and girls in thirty countries are the victims of female genital mutilation (FGM). Most of them become victims of the practice before they are old enough to object. A majority of the victims are Muslim but likewise, a majority...
