Observing the US presidential electoral campaign, Thierry Meyssan analyses the resurgence of an old and weighty conflict of civilisation. Hillary Clinton has just declared that this election is not about programmes, but about the question “Who are the Americans?” It was not for reasons of his political programme that the Republican leaders have withdrawn the...
Imagine, Donald Trump would accede to the US Presidency, an unlikely event with the presstitute media relentlessly slamming, slashing and demonizing him, not unlike they do with President Putin – while cheering no-end for the warmonger Hillary, no matter what atrocities she has on her hands and body, no matter that blood is dripping out of her mouth every ti...
On 26 March, a coalition of 10 mainly Arab League countries, supported by the US, UK, France, Canada and Turkey invaded Yemen in an effort to restore the Hadi government in what was dubbed “Operation Decisive Storm”. The air campaign has been characterized by tremendous ferocity, wholesale destruction and massive amounts of civilian casualties. In addition...
For 18 months now, Yemen has been embroiled in a devastating conflict that has killed at least 10,000 people according to official sources, that number is however probably far higher. The Yemeni conflict is characterized by the asymmetric ways it’s being fought on the battlefield and by the massive amount of suffering for the civilian population in the impov...
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I have considered writing on the topic of President Putin and an analysis of his conduct and stature according to the principles of Dharma, loosely analogous to ‘right conduct’ in English. However, in my contemplation I came to realise that whilst President Putin the man is a very charismatic figure, he is representative of a greater, overall leadership stru...
Washington is attempting to hold to its positions without having to start a Third World War, but it looks like an impossible task. Moscow is offering the United States a safe exit in Syria and Yemen. But if they should choose this option, they would be obliged to abandon some of their...
Watching the last Presidential debate was a rather depressing experience. I thought that Trump did pretty well, but that really is not the point here. The point is this: no matter who wins, an acute crisis is inevitable.
Option one: Hillary wins. That’s Obama on steroids, only worse. Remember that Obama himself was Dubya, only worse. Of course, Dubya was ju...
Between September 11 and 12, 2016, the Libyan army, under the command of General Khalifa Haftar, took control of the key oil facilities of the ‘Oil Crescent’ on the Mediterranean coast in Zawiya, Ras Lanuf and Sidra as well as Zueitina and Mersa Brega, through which the bulk of the oil produced in the country runs. The capture was done almost without bloodsh...
The United States and the European Union have launched an undeclared war against Syria, Iran and Russia – it is known by the alias “economic sanctions”. This appalling tactic killed more than a million Iraqis during the 1990’s, without arousing any suspicion in Western public opinion. It is used today, patiently, against any state which refuses to be dominat...
So you think Donald Trump is the biggest threat to world peace? And Barack Obama engineered America’s “pivot to Asia”?
It was actually Hillary Clinton, emphasising the necessity of a “strategic turn” for the United States, who launched the pivot to Asia in an October 2011 article titled “America’s Pacific Century”. The tone was martial: “Our military is by ...
Considering that Vladimir Putin is responsible for the rise and recovery of Russia, the US and Israeli neo-conservatives have been attempting since 2011 to arrest him, try him and condemn him before an international court. As a faithful servant of their strategies, French President François Hollande has publicly suggested that Putin be held responsible for t...
Animal welfare organizations have been fighting their level best to free the captive elephants from captivity. These organizations have been waging legal battles in courts of law in various States for the welfare of captive elephants. Hearings in a few cases are going on in the High Courts of Chennai and Kerala. Organizations like People for Ethical Treatmen...
During the sexual scandals of Bill Clinton - the “bimbo eruptions” as Hillary called them - the Democrats and progressive opinion ruled out a person’s sex life as a political factor. Now suddenly nothing more than juvenile locker room banter without the actual sex has become the determinant of political...
Amidst media speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping would bat strongly for “all-weather friend” Pakistan at the BRICS-BIMSTEC summit in Goa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the sting out of any potential rebuke this might entail with a game-changing arms acquisition from Russia. While Saturday’s $ 5 billion S-400 ‘Triumf’ air defence systems and...
From time to time, it is in the interests of the Western media and political establishment to do a bit of “political cleansing”. Thus the West pulls out some skeleton from the closet. A British Parliamentary Committee has criticized David Cameron for authorizing the use of force in Libya when he was Prime Minister in 2011. However the basis for criticism was...
In many ways this book documents the birth of atrocity literature and its first application in India on Hindus. The successful template of manufacturing atrocities, hyping them, and then using the resulting public opinion to further an evangelical agenda may appear new, but it is one that was honed more than two centuries ago. This is yet another stunning bo...
If the greatest poker game of all times will end by nuclear grand slam, and the survivors will review the causes of WWIII, they will die laughing. The Third World War had been fought to save al Qaeda. Yes, my dear readers! Uncle Sam invaded Afghanistan in order to punish al Qaeda, and now he started the World War to save al Qaeda. Positively a great ambivale...
Leaders of the group of emerging economies, BRICS, are meeting in Goa and India being the host country has rightly planned an outreach programme with the leaders of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The initiative of inviting regional leaders for outreach programme began with South Africa in...
While the district of Ramanathapuram has become a hotbed for jihadi activities with a Muslim population of 20 per cent and being a fertile ground for all Islamic fundamentalist organisations, other districts of Tamil Nadu are not far behind. Some like Dindukkal, Vellore, and Thirunelveli follow Ramanathapuram closely, with others catching up. The Hindu Munna...
Washington’s regime change machinery has for the time being succeeded in removing an important link in the alliance of large emerging nations by railroading through a Senate impeachment of the duly elected President, Dilma Rousseff. On August 31 her Vice President Michel Temer was sworn in as President. In his first speech as president, the cynical Temer cal...
The staff of the state forest departments, totaling about 115,000, is the most important governmental force in the country in managing biodiversity. However, they lack adequate training in handling social issues - as well as wildlife management. The conventional policing approach will not be successful, and as the forest staff is increasingly getting involve...
Incorporated in the WLPA in 2003, the community reserve is a statutory mechanism to accord the authority for the sustainable management of biodiversity in the local community. The management responsibility is vested with a local committee nominated by the Village Panchayat (village council), and the reserve has a provision for sustainable resource use, based...
India’s forest biodiversity management regime is analysed at the policy, legal and institutional levels, from the perspective of the triple objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the principles of the Indian constitution. The forest bio-diversity management regime has both structural and functional flaws that render it largely incapable of ...
Traditionalists, devaswoms and a section of devotees are of the opinion that elephants are a part of temple tradition and that some foreign forces which are inimical to Hindu traditions are campaigning for the removal of elephants from temples in the name of animal rights. As they have pointed towards the widely spread article by Liz Jones (seen in the last ...
“Russia suspected of election scheme. U.S. probes plan to sow voter distrust.” That’s the Washington Post page-one lead headline of September 6. Think about it. The election that Americans are suffering through, cringing in embarrassment, making them think of moving abroad, renouncing their citizenship; an election causing the Founding Fathers to throw up as...
A lot has been written about the surgical strike carried out by the Indian army deep inside Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) on September 29. Media reports have indicated that India is likely to share more details of this daring operation. But first things first. India needs to be congratulated on the planning, flawless execution, post-strike information and ...
If Saudi Arabia continues to exude control and political confidence from behind the billions of dollars its large coffers have offered its elite by way of immunity, the kingdom never planned for Yemen Resistance to rise like a colossus against its theocracy … and yet it did.
Against all odds, and one may add despite all odds, the poorest of all nations, the...
Addressing the people of Pakistan from Kozhikode, Kerala, on September 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharpened his diplomatic offensive by highlighting its internal vulnerabilities and urging citizens to ponder the events of the past seven decades: “Your rulers are misleading you by singing songs on Kashmir and reading out scripts written by terrorists on...
The plot to change regime objectives in the Arab world and introduction of political Islam led to what is called “the Arab Spring”. The winds of change began in Tunisia and Egypt. Libyan president, Muammar Gaddafi, was forcefully removed. Syria was the main target for regime change. People were out in the streets in few pockets of Syria, hoping that the wind...
Often times, people confuse refugees with migrants. Refugees are those who are forced to flee from persecution, war, violence; who cannot return home because of their safety. On the other hand, a migrant is a person seeking better life style, which is usually a voluntary process.
Many young Syrians between the ages of 18-40 years are still taking the journe...
On a regular Sunday morning, I decided to call my cousin, Magda, in my hometown Salamiyeh, Hama. During our conversion, like a homesick fellow, I asked her about our common friends and what the town looks like these days. To my dismay, she responded with sadness in her voice: “Waiel… there are no young men left in the town... I barely see them in the...