In the context of the extended 5+1 talks, Thierry Meyssan shares his thoughts about the issues at stake: behind the false accusation of developing a nuclear bomb, Washington had hoped to curb the influence of the Iranian revolution. However, in light of its military defeats since 2006, it would now be amenable to maintaining the status quo in the balance of ...
The events in Ukraine since November 2013 are so astonishing as almost to defy belief. An legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by so-called opposition.
His “crime” a...
The Pitfalls to Stability: Though not noted widely, a disturbing fact is that President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah, who have been in power for almost two months at the time of writing, have failed to name either Cabinet members or provincial governors during their self-proscribed 45-day period following the...
Prospect of Stability through Regional Cooperation: Since 2012, when the United States and NATO announced their intent to pull the bulk of their troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Afghanistan watchers have been in a quandary as to what the immediate and middle-term future would hold for that country. The end of Hamid Karzai’s presidency and the...
By organizing in Iraq and Syria the first war leading to a decline in oil prices, the Obama administration’s intention was probably to cripple its adversaries’ economies: Russia, Iran and Venezuela. But this policy can have severe unintended consequences in other areas: acceleration of China’s development, threats to the dollar’s value and a challenge to the...
We do not normally comment on domestic political affairs unless they affect international affairs. However, it is necessary to consider American political affairs because they are likely to have a particular effect on international relations. We have now entered the final phase of Barack Obama’s presidency, and like those of several other presidents since Wo...
If South Asia plans to consolidate and further integrate itself, it needs to learn much from the experiences of South-East Asian countries that are moving towards an ASEAN Economic Community, hopefully by 2015. About 80 per cent of the spadework has been done for the process of integration, only 20 per cent efforts are needed. The ASEAN group was of course f...
The basic notions of history inherited by western academia were influenced by what was regarded as “common sense” knowledge, even though it was explicitly or subconsciously shaped by biblical chronologies and the time “ceiling” that they set for the creation of the world. Nineteenth century positivists beginning with Auguste Comte built a theory of evolution...
“Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored troops across the border as it expanded the conflict to a new section of Ukrainian territory. The latest incursion, which Ukraine’s military said included five armored personnel carriers, was at least the third movement of troops ...
Acknowledging the traditional owners of Australia, paying respects to the Indigenous Aboriginal Australians, their ancestors past and present, Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened his speech in front of about 17000 people in All Phones Arena in Sydney Olympic Park grounds. It was easy to justify The Rock Star reception, as described by The Sydney Morning...
Ques: It is well known that the official position of the Government of India never advocated for the separation of Sri Lanka with Tamil Eelam but operations in the 1980’s were conducted via the External Intelligence Agency of the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) to arm the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) whose main goal was to form a separate state....
The Western powers’ years of thoughtless use of militant Islamists - funded by Sunni Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, among others, and with the tacit approval of Turkey - as foot-soldiers to unseat regimes the West considers “unacceptable” has given rise to a war-fit and well-equipped terrorist group, Islamic State of Iraq al-Sham (ISIS)...
Washington seems to have abandoned its Levant remodeling map for another. However, the failure of the first project and the strength of the Syrian people do not bode well for the implementation of this new plan. Thierry Meyssan reviews the adjustments it requires and the division it has created within the coalition: on one side, the United States, Israel and...
In a development that has warmed many an Indian heart, the US State Department’s irascible Pakistan expert and India-baiter, Robin Raphel, is being investigated for possible counter-intelligence activities. This is a euphemism for spying on behalf of a foreign government, possibly Pakistan, with which she has had a long and cosy relationship. Raphel was serv...
India expressed “serious concern to India’s national security” to Sri Lanka Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa when he met the Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval at New Delhi on October 20, 2014 over the docking of a Chinese submarine “Great Wall No.329” in Colombo harbour along with the support ship “Changxing...
Joseph Vaz was serving the interests of the Catholic Church and the King and Government of Portugal in Goa when he landed in Ceylon on a mission. Goa was then (17th century) in the hands of the Portuguese who were then more or less engaged in a state of war with the Dutch, then occupying the coastal areas of Ceylon. Christian missionary activity was a huge S...
The annual feature, G-20 Summit, has turned out to be a mere talk shop. No substantial effort has been made done at the multilateral level to salvage the global economy. Whatever efforts are been done are at national level for generating more demand to keep up the growth pace of their economy. But with the emergence of strong leadership in India, Australia, ...
Twenty-five years ago, a crowd filled with an uneasy mixture of joy and rage tore down the Berlin Wall. There was joy for the end of Germany’s partition and the end of tyranny. There was rage against generations of fear. One fear was of communist oppression. The other fear was of the threat of a war, which had loomed over Europe and Germany since 1945. One f...
Sri Lanka Deputy Minister Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan, known as Karuna Amman in his earlier incarnation as LTTE commander of Batticaloa, accused the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) of rape and killings during its war against the LTTE in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 90. Speaking in Parliament on November 4, he said the IPKF had raped several Tamil women and a...
Even as the world learnt with surprise that US President Barack Obama has reached out to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a nuclear deal and help in fighting the Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham (Daesh, or Islamic State), there are startling reports that self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was critically wounded and poss...
Two years ago, on October 28, Savita Halappanavar died a slow and painful death in Galway, Ireland. The inquest held in April 2013 considered reports of the Health Service Executive, Ireland (HSE) and Health Information and Quality Authority, Ireland (Hiqa) but dismissed them as “just findings in relation to Ms. Halappanavar’s death”. The final unsatisfactor...
There is no question that, in the immediate aftermath and for several years following US military conquests, wars, occupations and sanctions, US multi-national corporations lost out on profitable sites for investments. The biggest losses were in the exploitation of natural resources – in particular, gas and oil – in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and Sout...
In as much as two global religions Christianity and Islam are today given leadership by powerful countries based in the West and Middle East respectively, the time has come for the oldest of the three global religions - Buddhism - to be backed by a powerhouse to dispel the widely circulated myth that it is a weak religion sustained by relatively weaker count...
In a situation where economies are seeking integration with neighbours in the form of institutional grouping, India has made attempts for engagement with the ASEAN bloc primarily for trade and integration of the economy, more particularly to derive benefit for its remote north-eastern region. But this has not been realised in full potential due to poor land ...
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On October 29, police raided the residences and offices of all the main separatist leaders across the Kashmir Valley and arrested them, barring Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. Syed Ali Shah Geelani was already under house arrest. It was a major and meticulously conducted operation against traitors, mercenaries, rabble-rousers and Pakistani agents who had unleashed a no...
In today’s fast changing global and regional scenario, how can SAARC countries become more pragmatic and practical and really benefit this great chunk of humanity?
This is a question that has become a cliché. Ever since the South Asia Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was conceived in 1985, it has been a work in progress. It remains largely ineffe...
A definite shift in India’s Look East Policy is underway with added emphasis on Buddha diplomacy under the new dispensation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to market the Buddha card to the countries in the region as India is the place of origin of Dhamma and Sangha. He indicated such a change in emphasis by his first official visit abroad to a neighbouri...
The Election Commission’s announcement of elections to the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly even as the Chief Minister was pleading for postponement in view of September’s natural calamity, and the Supreme Court’s startling decision to intervene in the poll process by seeking relaxation of the model code of conduct to facilitate relief distribution, has given a new ...
Does demagoguery have an inventive side? Only if you assume semi-literacy is virtuous, and that imagination lies in the name of the manipulative. The combination of both Ebola and terrorism are the evil twins of the same security dilemma. It is manufactured. It is a confection. And it is, at the end, worthless in what it actually suggests. The effects of it ...
Enough is enough. We have seen a number of incursions and ceasefire violations at our borders with China and its all-weather friend, Pakistan. It is time now to show our adversaries that India cannot be taken for granted. Both China and Pakistan are in illegal occupation of parts of Indian territory. Not satisfied with their illegal occupation, both countrie...
Is the new alliance between Turkey and France concerned only with economic issues, to wit entry into the European Union, or is it purely political? In this case, must Paris provide cover for Ankara whatever the policy? Does this support go as far as genocide?
For the second time, the Obama administration has called Turkey into question for its support of th...