It seems, after nearly a decade-and-a-half long play on Indian cotton fields, Monsanto, the world’s biggest agricultural biotech company, is finally readying to exit India’s cotton fields. This is what one sees on the surface. The reason being, it is not ready to sacrifice its “new” technology, as touted, with the “Round Up Ready Flex” technology in...
The “crooked mile” from the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (“There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile etc”) is Fleet Street, which is well known to London journalists. So I was told when I joined the BBC at Bush House, at the very end of Fleet Street. Not only is the street itself crooked, but so are many of its occupants. Crookedness is a professi...
Namakkal district is one of the most prosperous districts in Tamilnadu with a rich history and heritage. After the decline of the Vijayanagara Empire, the Madurai Nayaks ascended to power here. The famous Namakkal fort was built by Ramachandra Nayaka. Namakkal city, which is the headquarters of the Namakkal district, is famous for two rock cut cave temples, ...
CIPE focuses on the dissemination of liberal capitalist ideology and the struggle against corruption. The first success of CIPE: transforming in 1987 the European Management Forum (a club of CEOs of big European companies) into the World Economic Forum (the club of transnational ruling class). The big annual meeting of the world’s economic and political who’...
Ronald Reagan’s speech in London took place in the aftermath of scandals surrounding revelations by Congressional Committees enquiring into the CIA’s dirty-trick coups. Congress then forbids the Agency to organize further coups d’état to win markets. Meanwhile, in the White House, the National Security Council (NSC) looks to put in place other tools to circu...
For 30 years, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been sub-contracting the legal part of illegal CIA operations. Without rousing suspicions, it has put in place the biggest network of corruption in the world, bribing trade unions and management syndicates , political parties both on the Right and Left so that they defend the interests of the Unite...
The spurt in terror strikes across the globe has shown the growing spread of the terrorist network that radicalizes people to target innocent lives. Different terror outfits have sprung up and are present in almost all parts of the world. Unfortunately, the United Nations has not yet been able to negotiate the Comprehensive Convention on International Terror...
The Last Queen of Kashmir, by Rakesh K. Kaul, is a portrait of 14th century Kashmir, a society that would certainly pride itself on its liberalism, spirituality and civilisation. Ironically, these are the very values that modern-day Kashmir seems devoid of. To a young Kashmiri, the society and its milieu, which the author marks out, appear to be the stuff...
With seemingly casual remarks from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has changed the political template in Balochistan and Jammu & Kashmir, both on the Indian side and in the territory occupied by Pakistan in 1947-48 in defiance of international law and the directives and resolutions of the United...
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And there is also a sequel on this same topic. In 2001 military affairs writer Fred Kaplan published a major article in The Atlantic with the explicit title “JFK’s First-Strike Plan.” Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified archival documents, he similarly described how the Kennedy Administration had prepared plans for a nuclear first strike against the So...
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Several years ago, my articles advocating a large hike in the minimum wage caught the attention of James Galbraith, the prominent liberal economist, and we became a little friendly. As president of Economists for Peace and Security, he invited me to speak on those issues at his DC conference in late 2013. And after the presentations, he arranged a meeting wi...
Similar to the documentation of 12 murders carried out by Islamic terrorists in Tamil Nadu, Hindu Munnani has also documented a few major assaults committed by jihadists. All these assaults are brutal in nature and intended to liquidate the victims. The documentary titled “Jihadi Assaults in Tamil Nadu” runs for about 40 minutes detailing a few incidents of ...
It’s not only China vs. the US in the South China Sea. Few in the West realize that two completely different, intersecting stories are developing in maritime and mainland Southeast Asia.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague denied China’s historic rights to waters in the South China Sea within its nine-dash line; it also ruled that the Spratly Is...
Since the fall of 2015, the Syrian-Iranian-Russian coalition has been highly effective in the Syrian conflict, scoring multiple victories on the battlefield, most notably in the Latakia and Aleppo provinces where over 90% of the Latakia province was liberated from the Western-backed...
The meeting that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Saint Petersburg has nearly attracted as much media attention as the Rio Olympics.
Erdogan arrived in Saint Petersburg during the afternoon hours of August 9, and the initial talks were immediately followed by negotiations with various ministers, alo...
The Clinton campaign takes the cake for creative and often ingenious campaign strategies as well as public relations management. The Khizr Khan episode is one such creative genius that the strategists crafted to influence voters decisively in favor of Clinton. Only this time the strategy backfired.
Khizr Khan is the father of Humayun Mauzzam Khan, the 27-ye...
Two important developments in the last week of July promise advances in the Eurasian Land-Bridge’s connectivity between East and South Asia with Europe, via Central Asia and Iran. While these and related developments are in progress, the developed nations in Europe and North America, mired in self-inflicted financial hara-kiri, are encountering a backlash ag...
Alexis: You are a Solzhenitsyn scholar, and Solzhenitsyn is arguably one of the rarest minds and perceptive writers the twentieth century ever produced. Solzhenitsyn praised Putin for his tremendous work, and no one ever really challenged him on this.
Krasnov: First of all, thanks for focusing on a Russian writer who belongs as much to Russia as to the...
(Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian who opposed the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism, raised global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camps, died on August 3, 2008. Jonas Alexis and Vladislav Krasnov discuss his legacy)
Alexis: The German magazine Spiegel once posed this dilemma to Solzhenitsyn:
“Your recent two-volume ...
The DNC 2016 reminded me The Triumph of the Will, the paradigmatic film of Leni Riefenstahl. The fiery oration of “four-star general of the Marine Corps” General (retired) Allen, ready to kick ass of the Russkies, flag-waving, hysterical rhythmical shouts Uoo-eS-Ay, runaway aggressiveness, military pomp and above all exceptionalism of “America is great becau...
An RTI application filed in Karnataka has brought to light alarming figures of enormous government funding sanctioned for construction and renovation of Churches in the State, which raises serious questions about State funding of evangelical activities of Christian missionaries in India.
Four RTI applications were filed on 26 March 2016, addressed to the...
We have seen the unmitigated pain of captive elephants in temples and private places and the reasons behind it. It would be pertinent to know the details of illegalities and legal violations by the mahouts and the owners of captive elephants. The owners and mahouts of captive elephants violate several Acts, Laws, Notifications, Orders and Guidelines.
Illega...
Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a moral compass to his nation, said, “Every people must answer morally for all of its past - including that past which is shameful”. This involves trying to understand, “How could such a thing have been allowed? Where in all this is our error? And could it happen again?”
As another Independence...
The news that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the assassinated leader of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from captivity is one of the most significant developments in Libya in some time. For while the Western corporate media would like people to believe that the Gaddafi name is dead and buried, the fact remains that Saif al-Is...
On the fifth day of first session of the Constituent Assembly, under the chairmanship of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, while moving the aims and objectives of the draft Constitution of India, in New Delhi on 13 December 1946, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, stated:
“…Laws are made of words but this resolution is something higher than the law. It is not a law; but it is s...
The 2016 US Presidential election moved to the next phase this month with two conventions that riveted the nation’s attention. The first was the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where Donald Trump, as expected, won the nomination as the GOP candidate for...
As violence continues in the Kashmir valley, the security forces are having a tough time to bring the situation under control. On the ground, they are braving against violent mobs throwing stones and aiming to kill and off-the ground they are graciously defending a barrage of criticism from bleeding-heart liberals, a corrupt political class, and NGOs with ve...
The latest revelation by Pakistani terrorist Bahadur Ali alias Saifullah, who was captured alive by the security forces in Kupwara sector, that he had met Hafiz Saeed twice in the Muzzaffarabad training camp, has cleared the mist surrounding the recent Kashmir turmoil. The involvement of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), a jihadi terror organisation, in the current imp...
The Jews can be a formidable enemy: devoid of scruples, they hunt in packs. Like aunts in P G Wodehouse’ fiction, they do not stoop to fair play: they go for the jugular. The hunt for disobedient leaders is their favourite national sport; and woe to a politician who crosses their path. They occupy commanding heights in the US media and finance and they can u...
The convention of the US Democratic Party in Philadelphia ended with a big schism. And this schism divides not only the supporters of Hillary Clinton and her opponents, but also Bernie Sanders and the movement that he led and symbolized just a few days ago.
The senator from Vermont who attracted thousands across America to his rallies and ignited them with ...
When I first heard that a coup was in progress in Turkey my first thought was that it was the USA’s way to punish Erdogan for his sudden apology to Russia. Yes, sure, I realized that there were many other possible explanations, but that was the one I was hoping for. I even told my family that if this was a US-backed coup and if Erdogan or his supporters said...