St. Croix Times Worldwide

M.A. Dworkin Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Peace often fails long before shots are fired. Rumors spread. Food prices spike. Hate speech hardens identity lines. A drought pushes families across a border. One side misreads the other’s military movement. By the time diplomats arrive, fear has already done much of the work. Artificial intelligence cannot create peace on its own. It cannot replace courage, trust, justice, or political will. Yet it can help people see risk earlier,

M.A. Dworkin In a world far, far away - A serious question has moved from science fiction into public debate: could AI kill all humans in the next decade? That claim sounds extreme. It also deserves more than a shrug. Artificial intelligence is already changing work, education, medicine, software, weapons, media, and politics. The most capable systems can write code, imitate human speech, analyze huge datasets, and act through tools. They are not conscious beings with motives

Bud Ayer London, UK - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Sunday, September 6, 2026, that "the end of the Iranian regime is near," adding that its fall would "change the fate of the Middle East and the Jewish people." Netanyahu went on to say: "Together with the United States, we accomplished tremendous achievements in removing the existential threat from above us. We have removed atomic bombs and ballistic missiles from above us and have hit the Iranian axis wit

Bud Ayer London, UK - Sanctions have squeezed Iran for decades, but pressure alone has not settled the central question: can economic pain make Tehran change course, or does it simply harden the system that Washington wants to influence? That question matters because U.S. sanctions now sit at the center of almost every major Iran policy debate. They affect oil exports, access to foreign currency, banking ties, shipping, insurance, and the ability of ordinary Iranians to parti

Bud Ayer Washington, D.C. - The phrase “Trump 2028” is catchy, provocative, and almost guaranteed to start an argument at the dinner table. It also runs straight into one of the clearest sentences in the U.S. Constitution. Alan Dershowitz, the well-known constitutional lawyer and Harvard Law professor emeritus, has weighed in on the idea of Donald Trump serving a third presidential term. His basic point is not hard to understand: political slogans can be flexible, but the Con

Bud Ayer Toronto, Canada - Tariffs can sound simple: one country taxes another country’s goods to protect its own workers, pressure a trading partner, or fix an unfair imbalance. In practice, tariffs on Canada are rarely simple. The United States and Canada share one of the world’s largest trading relationships. Cars, oil, lumber, steel, aluminum, food, machinery, and electricity cross the border every day. Many products do not just move once. They move back and forth as part