US officials have consistently lied over decades about progress in the
Afghanistan war. The lies are no surprise, writes a foreign affairs scholar –
but they have profound consequences.
by Gordon Adams Children are ripped from their parents at the border or lying
dead, together, their arms around their father’s neck on the banks of the Rio
Grande, the result of a cruel immigration…
by Gordon Adams It’s manhood time again. In 2013, then-President Barack Obama
stepped back from an airstrike in Syria. Five years later, Donald Trump decided
that U.S. troops were done in Syria and…
by Gordon Adams A summit between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un is on, off, then on again. There is a pattern here, perhaps the only certain
pattern in the eccentric Trump tenure …
by Gordon Adams The Wild West may be coming back. When the West was wild, it was
a time of lawlessness. A time when shoot-outs were an unpredictable, regular
occurrence. A time when might worked ha…
The development of a new town in Battersea is one of London’s biggest urban
projects in recent years. Principal and partner at SGS Economics and Planning