President Biden spent the first month of his term advancing his goal of societal reform and the second month laying the groundwork for his foreign policy. It is not yet clear what the third part of the “100 days” will be, which should focus on economic issues. It is expected to involve a massive upgrade of the country’s crumbling infrastructure, financed by ...
With the coronavirus pandemic derailing economic growth everywhere, there is growing concern worldwide about hunger and malnutrition and the catastrophic impoverishment of populations. The World Bank predicts that there will be 150 million more people living in extreme poverty by 2022. The proportion of the world’s population living on less than $1.9 a day i...
While you were watching him clown around, Boris Johnson oversaw the overthrow of President Morales in Bolivia, occupied the island of Socotra off the coast of Yemen, and organised Turkey’s victory over Armenia. You haven’t heard any discussion of this. Remember the overthrow of Bolivian President Evo Morales in late 2019. At the time, the mainstream press ...
Addressing the virtual summit meeting of leaders of QUAD – the Quadrilateral strategic grouping of the US, Japan, India and Australia – on March 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “We will work together closer than ever before for advancing our shared values and promoting a secure, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific.” He added: “Today’s meeting shows tha...
In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the bull’s eye of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the Muslim world. Once a model of secularism with an education system that taught evolution, cultural openness, and tolerance towards minorities that included Kurdish as a minority language, Turkish curricula have in...
The top-down reorganization of the world economy by a cabal of technocratic corporativists, led by the group around the Davos World Economic Forum – the so-called Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030 – is no future proposal. It is well into actualization as the world remains in insane lockdown for a virus. The hottest investment area since onset of the coronavirus ...
The first (video) summit of the so-called “Quad” countries, including the United States, Japan, India, and Australia, held on March 12 this year, certainly belongs to the events of paramount importance of the current stage of the “Great World Game”. Because this configuration is seen by its initiator, the United States, as the “leaven” of the process of form...
There has long been a struggle for economic and political dominance in the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR), in which the most powerful players and main competitors are China and the United States. Many regional states are concerned about China’s rapid economic and political expansion, as well as its growing military power. This concern makes them develop cooperati...
Pakistan is smoking the peace pipe yet again and the doves in India are going into raptures, insisting that the Government of India should immediately respond in a positive manner and move forward to “resolve all issues.” Let us first see the manner in which the peace initiative is being played out by Pakistan. “With India, it is very unfortunate that we...
A little acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program explains jockeying by the United States and the Islamic republic over the modalities of a US return to the deal from which President Donald J. Trump withdrew. The provision’s magic date is 2023, when the Biden administration if it returns to the agreement, ...
This Mahabharata research validating the traditional date offers plenty of hints on solving the Harappan origins. The Early Harappan starting from modest settlements in 3300 BCE corresponds to the origins of the city-states mentioned in Mahabharata. This developed further after the war that enabled Yudhisthira’s command throughout the region ensuring peace a...
Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well as its inability to overcome trauma and control its demons. The clashes sparked by a crackdown on cross border fuel smuggling to neighbouring Pakistan achieved what past US and Saudi machinations failed to accomplish: ethnic unrest in a strategic, impove...
The Biden Administration performs its first acts of International Relations. First, Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in numerous international meetings by video conference, assuring his interlocutors that “America is back.” Indeed, the United States is taking up its position in all intergovernmental organisations, starting with the United Natio...
On the 7th day after Krishna left on that fateful day of a solar eclipse when all the planets except Rahu congregated at the beginning of Aries, the people of Dwarka started moving out with Arjuna leading them. The sea swallowed the entire city by the time they left. The entourage consisting of women, children and elders accompanied with servants had moved s...
The Biden administration’s publication of a US intelligence report that holds Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi creates a fundamental challenge to the kingdom’s geopolitical ambitions. The challenge lies in whether and how Saudi Arabia will seek to further diversify its alliances with other world...
In Jammu and Kashmir, security and politics are interlinked. Due to foreign sponsored terrorism and unrest, the security and law & order situation becomes paramount. On many occasions, political activity in the erstwhile State (now Union Territory) became unfeasible due to a sensitive internal security environment. On all such occasions, security...
The Pandavas received the information from Daruka that the Vrishnis along with the Bhojas and Andhakas and Kukuras had all been slain. None of them at that time knew that Krishna and Balarama also had left the world. Grief stricken Arjuna rushed to Dwarka only to be received by the crying women and children. This must have been on the day of solar eclipse – ...
If the happenings during the month [of February] in Sri Lanka are any indication, the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, voted to power by 6.9 million Sinhalas to restore Sinhala pride and Buddha Sasana as he claims, did not cover itself with glory. This was evident in the government conduct on three issues which peaked during the month – troubled e...
China has been an important tool of the Globalists to destroy national industries and economies and render these vulnerable to IMF and BIS interventions. More especially, it has been used to pauperise one-half of Americans and Australians and to militate against Australia’s capacity to once again become self-sufficient; the only nation endowed with a full...
“When the thirty-sixth year (after the battle) was reached, the delighter of the Kurus, Yudhisthira, beheld many unusual portents.” (Ganguli’s translation) viparītāni nimittāni were many - terrestrial, atmospheric and celestial that included meteor showers and unusual appearance of the solar and lunar discs. A short while later, the king Yudhisthira received...
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Environmental crimes – massive devastation of the natural environment – are on the increase. Destruction of huge forest areas, savannas, river systems or aquifers is not a rare occurrence. Progressive emission of warming gases to the atmosphere has broken the robust resilience of the environmental system and has started causing havoc around the world. Deluge...
A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in 2050 as stretching from South-eastern Europe on the northern coast of the Mediterranean and Libya on its southern shore across North Africa, the Gulf and the Levant into the Caucasus and Central...
Yudhisthira along with all his relatives, friends and priests reached the spot where Bhishma was lying. Bhishma, getting ready to leave the earth, spoke certain words that formed the very basis of this entire series – of unraveling the date of the Mahabharata war. That verse stipulating the month-paksha-tithi of the Uttarayana day (quoted in Part 4) highligh...
The cabinet of Qatar tightened measures to stem the spread of the novel Coronavirus at the beginning of February due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. Further restrictions have been imposed on various institutions and their operations, and the number of individuals allowed to attend large gatherings and entertainment events. Similar steps have been taken in the...
Demonstrating for the third week theirdetermination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks,protesters in Myanmar appear to be learning lessons from a decade of protest inthe Middle East and North Africa. By the same token, Myanmar’s protesters, instark contrast to public silence about the military’s brutal repression of theRohing
The next morning after doing the morning oblations, the Pandavas and the Yadavas set out to meet Bhishma. [Mbh: 12-59-1] After answering the queries of Yudhisthira, Bhishma replied to a question of Nakula on how the first sword was created. Bhishma’s response was in the form of a story of a powerful being called “Asi” falling from the sky as fire whose shape...
In the unfolding extreme winter tragedy in Texas as well as many other regions of the United States not prepared for severe winter weather, a notable point is that much of the vast windmill batteries across the State, supposed to generate 25% of the state electric power grid, have frozen and are largely useless. The recent severe winter weather across not on...
On February 24, 2021, the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan jointly recommitted to ceasefire along the Line of Control (LOC) and International Border (IB) that was first declared in 2003. “In the interest of achieving mutually beneficial and sustainable peace along the borders, the two DGMO agreed to address each other’s...
It is important to derive the number of days that Bhishma imparted his knowledge to the Pandavas. Let me analyze the sequence step by step to establish the exact number of days. It all started on a day (day after the coronation of Yudhisthira) on the arrow bed when Bhishma did a “Vāg Yajna” (Yajna by speech) of praising the Cosmic Form of Krishna. Hearing th...
The NEO has previously reported on the attempts by the United Kingdom to return to a region referred to as “East of Suez” in the heyday of the British Empire. Today, such a trend in UK foreign policy is defined by the term “tilt,” the development of which has recently come to light with a number of new evidences. On January 31 of this year, the world’s leadi...
By early 2021, Britain had finally settled all economic, political, and other issues about leaving the European Union, while actively strengthening trade and economic relations around the world, especially with countries that have historical and cultural significance. First of all, with the countries of Oceania, which only a century ago were part of the Brit...