Ukraine celebrated its 33rd Independence Day on Saturday [Aug 24-ed], during which time Zelensky made a hyper-aggressive speech boasting about his forces’ ongoing invasion of Kursk. So much has happened in the over 900 days since the latest phase of this already decade-long conflict began that many have forgotten how everything got to this point. The one-thi...
The ongoing confrontation between supporters of the international multipolar order and those nostalgic for unipolarity, and this within the framework of several fronts on a global scale, not only completely exposes the Western planetary minority regimes and the terrorist methods that characterize them, but also places them in a situation of weakness towards ...
In the post-colonial history of Africa, Egypt has steadily remained one of the most active players, whose well-established ambitions and resources form the prerequisites for Cairo’s active participation in political processes far beyond the “land of the pyramids”. The recent defence and security agreement with Somalia was another step by Egypt, aimed (among ...
According to recent reports, Israel, under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, is doing everything in its power to prevent the cessation of hostilities in Gaza and is trying to provoke Iran into starting a regional conflict. Israel believes that such actions will help resolve some aspects of strategic security in...
Seventy-seven years after Independence, the politics of caste continues unabated—with recent debates on conducting a caste census bringing the issue to the forefront again. It’s one of the many attempts that have been made to create the illusion of an India divided due to its different administrative states, castes, communities, languages, traditions, and at...
In the lead up to the Ukrainian military’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, even Western headlines were dominated by reports of Ukraine’s gradual demise. Ukraine is admittedly suffering arms and ammunition shortages, as well as facing an unsolvable manpower crisis. Russia has been destroying Ukrainian military power faster than Ukraine and its Western s...
In August 1945, the US atom bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, nuclear weapons have never been used in conflict. That may soon change as Ukraine faces the increasing likelihood of a Hiroshima moment. Conditions in Ukraine increasingly give Russia military and geopolitical cause to use tactical nuclear weapons. Though Russia wil...
Recently, Israel assassinated Hamas’ Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. This alleged assassination by Israel has raised multiple questions. The assassination has been followed by the Beijing Declaration – which aims to promote unity between Palestinian entities, a framework initiated by China. This frustrated the United States. Haniyeh’s assass...
It passed more than the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War in 1914−1918. Proportionally, in the war, Serbia suffered the most among countries involved in the conflict as it lost one-fourth of its population followed by 50 per cent of industrial destruction. The first war crimes or even the genocide occurred on the territory of Serbia. On the other...
For the past several years, the Middle East has been China’s key trading hub, not least because of more than 70 per cent of the oil that Beijing imports from here. Between 2017 and 2022, China’s bilateral trade with this region jumped from US$ 262 billion to US$ 507 billion. In 2022 alone, the region saw its trade with China jumping by more than 27 per cent....
Political uncertainty looms large over the South Asian region. Governments in all the regional countries are suspicious about their future. A massive uprising in Bangladesh and the consequent ouster of the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has significantly impacted the neighbouring countries. This inculcated fear among the governments of the neig...
It is time for Russia to fully mobilize against the nagging threat posed by the NATO-backed Ukrainian state. President Putin’s pragmatic approach to keeping NATO off Russia’s borders will undoubtedly be shifted given the recent Ukraine Army incursions at Kursk. Many of us suspected it would come to this. Russia must crush the Kyiv-NATO experiment down the...
By officially regarding the latest cross-border incursion as an act of terrorism instead of a military invasion, Putin signaled that he’s holding off on diverting forces from the Donbass front, which thus prevents Kiev from achieving its “primary military objective”. Ukraine’s sneak attack against Russia’s Kursk Region was the subject of Putin’s meeting with...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev shared an ambitious regionalization vision in his de facto manifesto earlier this month titled “The Renaissance of Central Asia: Towards Sustainable Development and Prosperity”. He began by emphasizing the five countries’ roles in the Great Silk Road and participation in a slew of multilateral formats. Then he wrote tha...
Western propagandists are accustomed to telling us that we are still living in the “Free World,” while the “enemies” of freedom, they say, are to be found in the modern-day versions of such bygone ideologies as Fascism, Nazism, or Soviet-style Communism, etc. Thus included on the enemies list are “authoritarian” states like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, ...
The demise of the former Iranian President in a plane crash after his visit from Azerbaijan sparked a leadership crisis in the country. Iran went into new elections to elect the new President of the country. The government is facing Western sanctions due to its anti-West and Islamic policies. Iran has been a staunch rival of Western interests in the Middle E...
Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the US and China in the Asia-Pacific region. The implications of the successful putsch, carried out by US-backed op...
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas is not finding a political solution but is entering a new round of tension that threatens to turn into a major regional conflict. What follows Recep Erdoğan’s statement on the possibility of Turkey entering the Palestinian conflict and the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in...
The second half of July was marked by an important visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Laos and Malaysia. Here Russia-ASEAN ministerial talks took place, as well as meetings of the foreign ministers of East Asian Summit members (EAS, the annual format of the ASEAN dialogue with external partners), the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF, a less formal p...
Over the past few weeks, there has been an exceptional demand on my time imposed by a summons that I received from the Census Bureau. It informed me that as a native-born United States citizen over the age of 35, I was officially obliged to serve my country by either 1) acting as juror in the Travis County Traffic Court, or 2) running for President. I chose ...
The Financial Times recently published a piece about how “India’s Bangladesh bet backfires after Sheikh Hasina ousted”, the innuendo of which is that Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister was practically an Indian puppet. The facts, however, tell an altogether different story. Although her government gave India transit rights for facilitating trade with its No...
Sri Lankans will be voting to elect their next President on September 21. The Election Commission’s announcement sets to rest all speculation about political moves to postpone it. The month ended with six presidential aspirants in the fray. According to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka (ECS) six candidates who deposited the money required to contest the ...
Sheikh Hasina’s resignation after weeks of violent protests in Bangladesh has created a power vacuum that various political factions, including Islamist groups, may seek to exploit. The current unrest in Bangladesh stems from multiple factors, including high unemployment, unjustified job reservations, election controversies, and the authoritarian approach of...
For anyone who still doubts that Western societies are disintegrating, the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics is proof enough. The French spent more than $1.5 billion to insult half the world and to disgrace a country known for its high culture. The Olympic movement ground to a screeching halt beneath what must have been a divine rain cloud hung over France’...
The resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday and her government’s replacement with a military-led interim administration was followed by a spree of political violence. The parliament was taken over, Hasina’s palace was stormed, some of the former ruling party’s offices and the homes of its members were looted, and minority Hindus...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century US war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target – China. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human be...
Of course, I don’t know the answer to this question. What amazes me, though, is the idea that Israel is an autonomous state actor. Israel is, in fact, the southernmost node along the Mackinder Line of the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire. Zionism, i.e., giving a group of organized Jews control of Palestine, was initiated by the British starting in the mid-19th ...
The US has achieved another “milestone” after its national debt surpassed the $35 trillion mark, the US House of Representatives Budget Committee announced on July 29. Yet, despite debt increasing and the economy struggling, the US is still not deterred from achieving its military ambitions. Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Ky., called the development a...
Another entertainingly corrupt sporting event has just started in Paris, opening with a barge packed ceremony on the Seine [July 29-ed]. Thousands of simpering commentators, paid-up media gawkers and bored influencers have been ready with their computers, phones and confected dreams. As always, the Olympics throws up the question about how far the host city ...
Control of food has been used throughout history as a weapon of war. Besieged cities with their food and water supply cut off have always been easy prey of conquerors. The same with nations or regions whose ability to grow food has been reduced or eliminated either by human attackers, neglect, or by natural conditions. Attacking the food supply of...
US presidential candidates Kamal Harris and Donald J. Trump are at each other’s throats, but there is one thing they agree on: The Gaza war must end. It’s the one kind of agreement Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu didn’t want to hear within 24 hours of his address to the US Congress that was choreographed to project unbridled support for the Gaza wa...