![Image Erdogan struggles amid Turkey's currency and debt crisis [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Turkey-lira-01.png)
Turkey’s central bank is ending a prolonged period of high inflation rates and citizens have tried to offload Turkey’s lira for foreign currencies. With presidential elections this month, Turkey will have an opportunity to render… Keep Reading
![Image Ignoring Puerto Rico is not the American way [Lima Charlie News][Photo: Mario Tama]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ignoring-Puerto-Rico-is-not-the-American-way-480x320.jpg)
Puerto Rico was already in crisis before Hurricane Maria hit the island, and increasing casualties have added urgency to the need for reform. Both Republicans and Democrats have plans to help the island, yet neither… Keep Reading
![Image Russian aluminium giant Rusal’s woes continue, but with a short reprieve [Lima Charlie News][Image: James Fox]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bleh-480x320.png)
In spite of the ongoing shuffling of its senior staff and ownership, Rusal, the world’s leading aluminum producer and the cash cow of one of Russia’s leading oligarchs, has not been able to dodge US… Keep Reading
![Image Memorial Day may soon be a remembrance of democracy and those who had the courage to defend it [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Memorial-Day-may-soon-be-a-remembrance-of-democracy-and-those-who-had-the-courage-to-defend-it-Lima-Charlie-News-480x320.png)
To the classical mind, a society in which political authority is divorced from military service was practically beyond the imagination. Worth remembering, as we greet another Memorial Day with 1,281,900 U.S. military personnel the world… Keep Reading
![Image America's obsession with plastic [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Americas-obsession-with-plastic-480x320.jpg)
While plastic continues to pose a real threat to our environment and health, America’s leadership, America’s lobbyists and America’s plastic culture all fight to keep us drowning in plastic. Now it has fallen to local governments… Keep Reading
![Image En Marche! France’s economy stands at a crossroads and for Macron, failure is not an option [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/En-Marché-France’s-economy-stands-at-a-crossroads-and-for-Macron-failure-is-not-an-option-480x320.png)
France has long been considered the weakest of Europe’s big three economies, Europe’s black sheep. Yet, under the leadership of President Emmanuel Macron, it appears at long last to be moving in the right direction.… Keep Reading
![Image America’s failed seaports - Trump’s ‘America First’ policy isn’t the only barrier to free trade [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/America’s-failed-seaports-480x320.jpg)
While the Trump Administration’s “America First” policy may be damaging to U.S. free trade worldwide, America’s inability to maintain deep water access at its seaports is a far more critical enemy than any new tariff… Keep Reading
![Image Armenia has a Velvet Revolution, so how does Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Russia and Instagram fit in? [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ph544r7a4ju01-1-480x320.jpg)
Armenia’s Velvet Revolution has thrown off an autocratic pro-Russian regime, yet, Russia has remained silent. With Armenia’s new government making diplomatic overtures to Moscow, this revolution has taken the style of a Colour Revolution, without… Keep Reading
![Image Erdogan's high wire act keeps Turkey's economy spinning, for now [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-04-at-5.22.24-PM-480x320.png)
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is fairly popular, his political opponents have been crushed in an ongoing purge, and Turkey’s economy has been growing by leaps and bounds. But the economy is showing cracks, and… Keep Reading
Op-Ed: While other economies are on a strict debt-diet, the U.S. is gluttonous and hungry for more. Trumponomics has undoubtedly made the national stock markets happy, but a new financial crisis beckons, at least if… Keep Reading
![Image Korea: Is Trump Bringing Peace in Our Time? [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Korea-Is-Trump-Bringing-Peace-in-Our-Time-480x319.png)
The war between North and South Korea is set to find its formal end in 2018, a result of combined US, Chinese and South Korean pressure. The recent meeting between the leaders of the two… Keep Reading
![Image 'Sanctions and the Rise of Putin's Russia' - starring oligarchs, siloviki, Rossiyskaya mafiya and Oleg Deripaska [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Putin-oligarchs-Lima-Charlie-News-480x320.png)
‘Sanctions and the Rise of Putin’s Russia’ contains an all star cast that includes oligarchs, siloviki, Chekists, and Rossiyskaya mafiya. Special guest star, Oleg Deripaska, makes an appearance as a ‘special case’ along with a… Keep Reading
![Image The world has no option but to let Assad stay where he is ... for now [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-world-has-no-option-but-to-let-Assad-stay-where-he-is-...-for-the-time-being-480x320.png)
After the alleged chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma, a coalition consisting of France, the UK and the US launched a large scale attack against Bashar al-Assad’s chemical warfare capability. If the coalition’s… Keep Reading
![Image The French in Syria - a long and tortured history [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-French-in-Syria-a-long-and-tortured-history-480x319.png)
France has taken the position that it is a humanitarian force, eager to bomb Syria for using chemical weapons and to promote regime change. Yet something’s not quite right with this picture. General Patton once… Keep Reading
![Image Macron ignores domestic pressure, attempts take the lead of Western diplomacy in Syria [Lima Charlie News][Image: Reuters / Stephane Mahe](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018_04_08_43616_1523165065._large-1-480x320.jpg)
Following Saturday’s attack on Syria, French President Emmanuel Macron moved to position himself as the head of Western diplomatic efforts to end the Syrian conflict. In spite of his show of strength, he is facing significant… Keep Reading
![Image Fight for influence in East Africa turns ugly as foreign powers demand more of a return on investment [Lima Charlie News][Image: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fight-for-influence-in-East-Africa-turns-ugly-as-foreign-powers-demand-more-of-a-return-on-investment-480x319.png)
In economically destitute Somalia, a little money goes a long way. Since the country collapsed, local politicians have leaned on foreign support. However, as East African markets have become more lucrative, foreign powers including the… Keep Reading
