Trump’s G20: Back to Basics

by Barry D. Wood As a crisis response entity, the Group of 20 was superb. In 2009 at the nadir of the global financial crisis, leaders from lands accounting for 85% of global output agreed to flood their stumbling economies with cash—demonstrating to a benumbed public that competent leadership was in charge, that confidence would be restored—and most importantly–there would not be a worldwide depression. … Continue reading Trump’s G20: Back to Basics

We Need to Reprise a Golden Age of Foreign Correspondence

August 23, 2026. The Daily Friend.co.za The need to reprise a golden age of foreign reporting OPINIONS  BARRY D. WOOD  AUG 23, 2026   – LISTEN TO THIS After the First World War and disastrous 1919 Paris peace accord, four young American would-be journalists rolled up on European shores. Three were Midwesterners – Vincent Sheean from rural Illinois, John Gunther from Chicago, and William Shirer from Iowa. … Continue reading We Need to Reprise a Golden Age of Foreign Correspondence