The “Black Continent” of Africa until the end of the eighth decade of the 19th century was not properly known territory, especially its central parts which have been unknown to the Europeans. The West European powers until the 1880s were acquainted mainly with the African littorals and their immediate hinterland. However, what was inside the continent was no...
South Asian media recently reported that India has pushed back against US meddling in Bangladesh through diplomatic channels after Washington imposed a new visa policy ahead of next January’s elections that many regard as aimed at pressuring the ruling Awami League (AL) party. AL general secretary Obaidul Quader said that India could have done this because i...
When the Indian rocket Chandrayaan-3 landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023, it created a stunning moment that comes but rarely in history, when an age of dreaming ends and a new one begins. The moon landing has shaken not only the soul of a single nation but that of almost all nations. It will alter the way the people of India look at themselves as well as t...
A potential sale of storied soccer club Manchester United to a member of Qatar’s ruling family could take the Manchester derby to new heights. The sale also enhances the likelihood of England’s Premier League, the world’s most-watched league, becoming a venue for Gulf state rivalries. It is unclear whether Jassim bin Hamad Al Than’, chairman of Qatar Islamic...
Recently, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the European Union should double its assistance to Ukraine. She went on to say the EU should create a support fund of 50 billion euros by the end of the year and that everything should be done to ensure victory on the battlefield for the Ukrainians. The European Union has created...
Even the fanatical neocon warmonger, the BBC has an article saying that Ukraine is “running out of men”. Young men and old have long been press-ganged off the streets into the armed services. The latest arrest of army recruitment personnel by Zelensky is an attempt to step up the draft and prevent the buying of exemption from conscription ($7,500 is apparent...
Millions across the West Africa Sahel region and around the world have loudly objected to the imperialist-instigated threats against the newly installed National Council for the Defense of the Homeland (CNSP) government in Niger.
From left political groupings to more moderate and even conservative forces recognize the grave danger inherent in the proclamat...
President Putin delivered a fair and balanced speech at the BRICS Business Forum on Tuesday [August 22-ed] that can be read in full at the official Kremlin website here. It defied the Mainstream Media’s expectations by only mildly criticizing the West but not haranguing it, while some multipolar supporters might have been dissatisfied with his moderate visio...
The four indictments against Trump are ridiculous in their charges. There is no legal basis in law for any of the indictments. Moreover, many of the indictments are violations of Constitutionally protected civil liberties. All the indictments amount to is an assertion that to charge Democrats with fraud in an election is a felony. It is OK to charge Republic...
Somewhere in 1945, in the dead of the night, the British intelligence intercepted a suspicious-looking seagoing trawler near the coast of Mumbai. A team of police raided the trawler but could find only kitchen utensils and gunny bags. The trawler was travelling from Yangon in Myanmar and the cargo belonged to a Gujarati engineer, B.C. Mehta. As soon as the t...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (IK) claimed that his Ambassador to the US’ cable from March 2022 proved that Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu signalled American approval for removing him through superficially “democratic” means. This multipolar patriot was then ousted a little over one month...
Kashi, also known as Varanasi, is one of the seven Mukti sthals of Bharat – the others being Ayodhya, Mathura, Dwaraka, Haridwar, Ujjain and Kanchi. Of these seven, the prime temples of three places, namely Ayodhya, Varanasi and Mathura had fallen to the Mughal invaders. Presently, a petition is filed seeking permission to worship within the Gyan Vaapi mosqu...
An Indonesian push for a Southeast Asian return to values rooted in an ancient Indo civilisation amounts to an innovative attempt to manage polarisation. Exploiting its rotating chairmanship of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia this week inaugurated the ASEAN Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue [August 7-ed]. The d...
What Senator Menendez demands is nothing short of a soft coup brought about by voluntarily reversing Kyrgyzstan’s recent “Democratic Security” successes under the Damocles’ sword of “security and economic” consequences if it dares to refuse. If he has his way, then suspected Colour Revolutionaries will be released from prison, Western “NGO” intel fronts will...
In a robust response on February 23, 1953, Mookerjee replied to many points raised by Sheikh with unusual candour, and that ended the brief correspondence between the two. He contended that Abdullah’s allusion to the “basic principles” underlying J&K’s relationship with India, rested on a “rigid acceptance of a legal fiction created by the British...
The Kanpur session of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (December 29-31, 1952) asked its president, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, to correspond with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Sheikh M. Abdullah, to help resolve the growing crisis in Jammu province as a result of the satyagraha launched by the Praja Parishad. The principal...
August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity. August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally...
The Middle East continues to be one of the most important strategic areas in the globe, drawing the attention of the major powers in the world due to its geographic significance and a number of internal inconsistencies. Although, of course, not all of the nations in the region have an adequate supply of these kinds of strategic raw materials, the terms “Midd...
The Conversation, which is a global collaboration platform between academics and journalists that’s funded by a wide range of international research institutions, published the results from a recent survey of 2,000 young Poles aged 16-34 showing how significantly their views towards Ukraine have changed since early 2022. It can be read in full here, but the ...
Saudi Arabia’s soccer player buying spree is about more than sports and the diversification of the kingdom’s economy. It’s also about geopolitics and religion for Saudi Arabia and, at least, some of the world’s top players moving to the kingdom. Recent high-profile transfers include Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema, Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante and Kalidou Koulibaly, L...
In recent months, there have been increasing exposés of the Biden family, led by Hunter Biden with then-Vice President and current President Joe Biden, of influence peddling in return for huge financial gains, most of which were concealed from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Though the mainstream media is largely stoic in facing the revelations, the purc...
The suborning of the US Presidential election by the “deep state” in 2020, and efforts to subvert the 2024 election by disqualifying Donald Trump from holding office again, shows how easily democracies can be hijacked by entrenched vested interests that have captured critical organs of the State. The outcome of America’s domestic struggle will impact the war...
Seeing as how both sides are now officially prioritizing their national interests, and recalling that these are contradictory on sensitive issues like agricultural cooperation and historical memory, the future of their relations doesn’t look as rosy as before. In hindsight, positive impressions of their partnership were really just an illusion since Poland w...
The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range o...
Termed Saudi’s “new oil” industry, tourism ranks very high on Riyadh’s Vision 2030 strategic plan for the country’s economic transformation away from reliance on oil as the major source of revenue. According to the plan, the Saudis aim to raise about US$ 46 billion annually from tourism by the end of this decade, i.e., by 2030. Saudi’s goal and China’s contr...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s July 20-21 visit to New Delhi ended with India and Sri Lanka jointly evolving an economic partnership vision to speed up Sri Lanka’s economic recovery. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs released the India-Sri Lanka Economic Partnership Vision document on July 21, 2023 after the visiting President met with Prime Minister...
Few people across the world ever heard of Niger before last week’s patriotic military coup in this landlocked West African nation and even fewer could have placed it on a map, yet now the Mainstream Media (MSM) wants everyone to think that it’s suddenly turned into a global epicentre of terrorism. This narrative is nothing but information warfare aimed at sc...
The United Arab Emirates resembles US ‘Teflon President’ Ronald Reagan. Congresswoman Pat Schroeder awarded Mr. Reagan the label because nothing stuck to him while he was president in the 1980s – not the recession, not his interventions in Lebanon that cost the lives of 241 US Marines, not his plunging job approval rating. UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed d...
Last week’s patriotic military coup in Niger, which was carried out in response to the prior regime’s failure to ensure its citizens’ security in the face of rising terrorist threats, is quickly turning into the catalyst for what could soon become a regional war in West Africa. Countries are taking sides ahead of the Economic Community Of West African States...
The reopening of ambassadorial relations between Cairo and Ankara is simply one of Egypt’s new diplomatic orientation, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s new course of constructing a multipolar world, which Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed and has actively promoted. Cairo has selected Amr Al-Hamami as its ambassador to Ankara ahead of the annual decla...
Arresting priests, especially based on the orders of someone claiming to be Jewish, is not a wise decision. Ukrainian leaders, including Zelensky, have accused the long-established Ukrainian Orthodox Church of undermining “Ukrainian unity,” although it’s unclear what exactly that means. Religion is being weaponized in Ukraine, a phenomenon that has occurred ...