In light of the struggle between the USA and PRC for influence in Southeast Asia, which has aggravated in recent years, other major players of the region are acquiring particular importance as they are able to tip the balance in one way or another. The main players in question are the Asian giants such as India and Japan. The situation with Japan is quite cl...
The first 2016 Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was held on Monday, September 26, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. The debate, organized by the Commission on Presidential Debate, a non-partisan non-profit body, had the sports fraternity worried as the Monday night football viewership took a nosedive as Americans flipped cha...
While the cease-fire in Syria, drawn up by the US Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart, seemed to be holding – apart from the Israeli violations on the first day - the Pentagon attacked the Syrian Arab Army for the second time. Washington claimed it was a mistake, but the reaction of the US ambassador to the UNO, on the contrary, made it seem more ...
The Bible orders that children not be forced to pay for their parents’ misbehavior, an injunction that has long since been replaced in Washington with guilt by association.
Ever since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels stood up against nineteenth century robber barons, socialism has been anathema to America’s rulers. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, measur...
Pakistan is responsible for the deaths of at least 65,000 people in the Indian sub-continent. For a nation as small as Pakistan, the country occupies disproportionate media and mind space. A country can be in the news for creating chaos or prosperity, Pakistan believes in the former.
This article lists the terror attacks in India that originated from or wer...
The 27 States who want to remain in the European Union met in Bratislava (Slovakia) for a separate summit – which means without the United Kingdom. They were there to think about their common project, but did little more than rehash the same old songs. The world is changing. The United Kingdom is adapting. The European Union is...
The Russian parliamentary elections went smooth as a silk dress under the hand. The ruling party, United Russia, has got a big majority of the seats in the Parliament, while the other three parties, the Communists (CPRF), the Nationalists and the Socialists shared the rest. Pro-Western parties did not cross the threshold and remained outside, as...
Joint Sea-2016 started this Monday (Sept. 12 – Ed.); that’s the fifth annual China-Russia naval drill, featuring stalwarts from both navies in action at the eastern waters of Zhanjiang, in Guangdong province, the HQ of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Nanhai Fleet.
Considering this is the first time that Joint Sea is happening in the South China Sea,...
In its documentary on Jihad in Tamil Nadu released in February 2016, Hindu Munnani had earmarked a considerable portion to show how the district of Ramanathapuram has come under the spell of Islamic fundamentalism over the years.
Vaethalai, a small town in the district occupied an infamous spot in our history when the Muslims of the town protested against t...
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is due to address the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) today (Sept. 21). Doubtless, Sharif will once again speak on Kashmir, something his nation feels enunciates “Pakistan’s position on key international issues.” Whatever that...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sharply escalated his measured references to Islamabad’s atrocities in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir by directing India’s permanent representative to the UN to raise the human rights situation in those regions and indeed, across all of Pakistan, at the 33rd session of the United Nation Human...
The situation in the East has become quite an enigma. At the very least, let us consider the latest statement made by the Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia, Khalid A. Al-Falih. In it, he, without batting an eyelid, bluntly announced that allegedly, Saudi Arabia would not increase its production up to the maximum output, and flood the oil market. By the way,...
The reports about tests on human beings that are being routinely carried out by certain Western corporations have become a sort of a trend these days. Among others, one can recall the story about the long struggle between civil authorities of various states and the US chemical giant Monsanto provoked by research in the potential dangers of GMO products, and ...
What has just taken place in Hangzhou, China, is of immense geo-economic importance. Beijing from the start treated the G20 very seriously; this was designed as China’s party, not the declining West’s. And much less Washington’s.
Outlining the agenda for the discussions, President Xi Jinping went straight to the point also geopolitically, as he set the tone...
Last June the US must have been celebrating its 45th anniversary of its fight against drugs. However, since the announcement of the war on drugs by President Nixon in 1971, the number of drug addicts in the United States over the past few years did not decrease. What’s even worse the number of Americans who die from drug overdose is on the rise in the...
Hillary Clinton fell ill during a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York. Cable TV networks repeatedly showed Clinton being helped by aides to her vehicle. It appeared that she was unable to stand by herself and needed assistance. Law enforcement officers on the scene later told news media that she had “fainted,” while her campaign said she had a bout of...
On September 9 at 9:30 AM, as it had been forecasted by numerous South Korean and Western experts, Pyongyang proceeded with its fifth nuclear weapon test. The site used for this test was just the same - near the village of Punggye-ri. The 5.3 strong earthquake that followed was reported by a number of monitoring stations across the region and, if South Korea...
Denouncing the interpretation of the military coup d’état in Turkey as a manoeuvre by the United States against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Thierry Meyssan proposes a larger view which integrates the prior resignation of Ahmet Davutoğlu and the re-establishing of commercial relations with Israel, Iran and Russia. Thereafter, he anticipates what the new Turkish str...
While animal right activists and animal welfare organizations are demanding the removal of elephants from temples as they are not well maintained and subjected to utmost cruelty, a section of devotees, traditionalists and Temple Devaswoms opine that removal of elephants from temples is against tradition, as elephants are used in various temple rituals. They ...
A lousy dancer blames the uneven floor, and Mme Clinton had proven to be an unexpectedly lousy dancer in the competition for the presidency against the blundering New York tycoon. We would expect her to win or lose graciously, as befits a former First Lady, but gosh, she is clumsy – and blames her lack of grace on poor Mr...
The jig may be up for Hillary Clinton and the neocons. Apparently the Republicans and the old guard in Washington will now boot the Clinton Foundation and its saleslady to the curb. This Wall Street Journal editorial by “go to” political expert Karl Rove offers a toxic shock view on...
While the August 9 meeting between Turkey’s Erdogan and Russia’s Putin did go a long way in unfreezing their own relations, this meeting - and the prospects of warm relations between them - has certainly put the U.S. under a lot of pressure, forcing president Obama to re-think about the U.S.’ military engagements in the region and the need to prolong them. T...
It’s now safe to say that US military advisors took part in the planning phase of Turkey’s military intervention in Syria codenamed Euphrates Shield, not only to restore the “strategic partnership” between Washington and Ankara, but also to pursue US strategic objectives in the region. And it is understandable, since the White House only acts when it has som...
The current Kurdistan project, supported by France and the United States, has no connection with the legitimate project which was recognised by the same countries during the Sèvres Conference of 1920. It is not even situated anywhere near the same territory! This pseudo-Kurdistan is no more than a Western bribe intended to turn the Syrian Kurds against Damas...
Justice Jasti Chelameswar has struck a powerful blow against the poisonous legacy of the Supreme Court in the Second Judges Case, 1993, which usurped the Executive’s power to appoint judges and replaced it with an opaque system of selection by dominant judges. By breaking the omerta code on this sham, Justice Chelameswar has shattered the ethical fig-leaf be...
The next BRICS summit, in Goa, is less than two months away. Compared to only two years ago, the geopolitical tectonic plates have moved with astonishing speed. Most BRICS nations are mired in deep crisis; Brazil’s endless political/economic/institutional debacle may yield the Kafkaesque impeachment of President Dilma...
The main architect of Washington’s plan to rule the world has abandoned the scheme and called for the forging of ties with Russia and China. While Zbigniew Brzezinski’s article in The American Interest titled “Towards a Global Realignment” has largely been ignored by the media, it shows that powerful members of the policymaking establishment no longer believ...
Kerala is the state which has the largest number of captive elephants. This is also the state where captive elephants are most abused and subjected to utmost cruelty. The parading of caparisoned elephants and their role in temple rituals gain a lot of importance during the time of festivals. Its significance has come to such a stage that there would be no te...
The Centre’s decisions to use pellet guns only sparingly against perpetrators of violence in Jammu & Kashmir is disappointing. It is symptomatic of the intellectual confusion, moral cowardice and political pusillanimity that have characterized New Delhi’s attitude to this essentially Islamic problem: even when it is winning, it chooses to buckle under...
The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugosl...