Thirty years after her brutal assassination on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi remains a polarizing figure. While she elicits effusive praise from sections of Hindu nationalists, she is also condemned by some leading lights of the secularatti for her authoritarian tendencies. How do you evaluate a public figure who has admirers and detractors on both sides of...
In this new and original analysis, Thierry Meyssan exposes the geopolitical reasons for the failure of the war against Syria and the real objectives of the so-called war against Daesh. This is particularly important for understanding current international relations and the crystallization of conflict in the Levant (Iraq, Syria and...
“The defining economic challenge of our time is secular stagnation. It is the risk of inadequate growth, leading to inadequate potential, leading to inadequate growth.”- Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury secretary, now teaching at Harvard
Summers uses jargon familiar to those who make financial policy, teach at Harvard, and are in process of destroyin...
I returned last weekend from a month-long trip to both East Asia and Europe. I discovered three things: First, the Europeans were obsessed with Germany and concerned about Russia. Second, the Asians were obsessed with China and concerned about Japan. Third, visiting seven countries from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 29 days brings you to a unique state of c...
The National Assembly of Pakistan on October 23, 2014 again tried to exploit its own people by invoking the so-called UN Resolution of August 13, 1948 vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistan National Assembly has taken a u-turn in its attitude towards this Resolution by seeking UN intervention to ensure that the wishes of the Kashmiris are carried out. The...
The writer was asked to comment on the Northern Provincial Council asking the Sri Lankan defence forces to vacate from their province. According to the TNA leaders, the army occupies nearly 25 per cent of the total land area in the province. But according to the Sri Lanka ministry of defence, the total area under the forces in NPC is less than five per cent....
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had people at speaking engagements ask me if I thought the Islamic State or some other militant group is using Ebola as a biological weapon, or if such a group could do so in the future. Such questions and concerns are not surprising given the intense media hype that surrounds the disease, even though only one person has died fr...
The Islamist State: You can’t believe a word the United States or its mainstream media say about the current conflict involving The Islamic State (ISIS). You can’t believe a word France or the United Kingdom say about ISIS. You can’t believe a word Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, or the United Arab Emirates say about ISIS.
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The resurgent BJP is on a winning spree. It is creating record after record and scoring spectacular victories in state after state, dislodging the corrupt and fake secular Congress and minority-appeasing regional outfits. It started its victory march in December 2013 when elections to the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and Congress-ruled Rajasthan...
What is behind the Modi magic and BJP sweeping the polls in Haryana and emerging as the single largest party in Maharashtra? Some point to the record voter turnout of 76 per cent in Haryana and high turnout of 64 per cent in Maharashtra as the cause; high voter turnout has always favoured the...
The presence of the grim black flags of the Islamic State (IS) or Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham (Daesh) in Jammu and Kashmir and other Indian States where jihadi cells nestle is testimony to Pakistan’s perseverance in undoing the civilisational framework and unity of India. New Delhi must realise that although Gen Zia ul-Haq spoke of desirin...
Relations between India and Australia in the Asia-Pacific region seem to be warming up. After Tony Abbott’s recent visit to India, it is now Australia’s turn to lay the red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he visits the country for G20 summit in Brisbane in the middle of next...
The initiatives of the new Iranian president, Sheikh Hassan Rohani, have largely strayed from Imam Khomeini’s anti-imperialist line. It appears that the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had favored the election of Rohani, decided today [October 13] to sabotage the agreement Rohani secretly negotiated with the United States and the European Union. ...
Even as the valiant Kurds of Kobane (Syria) continue their dogged resistance against the Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham (Daesh), the latter has overrun much of the Iraqi town of Anbar, causing 180,000 people to flee, according to the United Nations. By all accounts, the Daesh control 80 per cent of Anbar, and are even spreading into Libya. Tu...
China is hosting the 27th World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) General Conference at Baoji City in Shaanxi province, north east China (October 16-18, 2014), its first time ever. China will likely use the occasion to convey to the world that in future it intends not only to be an economic and military superpower but also a source of enlightened thinking and ci...
India’s foreign trade has badly suffered since the beginning of the global financial crisis in August-September 2008. Added to this is the subsequent shock of the sovereign crisis in the Eurozone.
Over dependence on markets in the developed countries was the cause for shrinkage in Indian exports. As the recovery in developed countries and increase in demand...
If one were to recall scams during UPA regime, 2G and Coalgate come to mind instantly. The scandals around the Commonwealth Games are sort of remembered. But most people tend to overlook the UPA’s acts of omission in the Aviation Sector! This article takes two examples to bring new insights and reinforce earlier ones, namely, the Delhi International Airport ...
For a Nobel Peace Prize President, Barack Obama seems destined to go down in history books as the President who presided over one of the most aggressive series of wars ever waged by a bellicose Washington Administration. Not even George Bush and Dick Cheney came...
While Western public opinion is fed information about the constitution of a purported international coalition to fight against the “Islamic Emirate”, the latter changes shape discreetly. Its principal officers are no longer Arab, but Georgian and Chinese. For Thierry Meyssan, this mutation shows that NATO ultimately intends to use the “Islamic Emirate” in Ru...
Though everyone adheres to Washington and its Gulf allies’ anti-terrorist discourse, everyone understands that it is only a rhetorical justification for a war that has other purposes. The United States say they want to destroy the Islamic Emirate which they created and which performs for them the ethnic cleansing necessary to its plan for the remodeling of t...
The transfer from a heliocentric to a Mars orbit, of India’s first interplanetary spacecraft, named Mangalyaan (Sanskrit for “Mars craft”), was carried out with clockwork precision, and is a demonstration that Indian space science has achieved a high level of excellence. It also shows what a focused program, with a limited budget, can achieve. By far the mos...
US President Obama’s decision to fight the Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham (Daesh) by air has come under fire as the heroic Kurdish resistance in Kobane (Kurdish for Ain al-Arab) threatens to crumble with mercenaries storming the northern Syrian city, across the Turkish border. Istanbul’s role in the humanitarian crisis – which could result in...
Engulfed in scandals in his government, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is finding it difficult to manage the growing dissatisfaction within his own party. There is no other option left for him but to expel anyone who raises a voice against him. The party vice president and former finance minister Prafulla Ghadai was expelled from the Biju Janata Dal fo...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to New York City, then Washington DC, was historic in many respects, and it was covered voraciously by a large section of the media in India and abroad. But there are always the self-styled intellectuals who earn their bread and butter by presenting distortions. They fervently hope that just because the piece was publishe...
Admonitions from professional Cassandras notwithstanding, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a successful visit to the United States. It was the climax of the diplomatic gauntlet he wielded on May 26 when he invited leaders of all SAARC nations, and Mauritius, to attend his swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Their arrival (barring Bangladesh Prime Min...
What is the main takeaway for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the United States? He was successful in attracting huge crowds at Madison Square and Global Citizen Festival where he marketed his “Make in India” concept well. He also impressed upon the CEOs of Boeing, KKR, BlackRock, IBM, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hospira, Pincus,...
The Ukrainian Defense Minister Valerii Geletei is hardly a credible figure. Not only did he recently declare that Russia had threatened the Ukraine with nuclear strikes, he even told a Ukrainian journalist that Russia had already executed two tactical nuclear strikes on the city of Lugansk (apparently to explain why the Ukrainian forces had to retreat from...
“Here begins our tale: The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.” This opening adage of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, China’s classic novel of war and strategy, best captures the essential dynamism of Chinese geopolitics. At its heart is the millennia-long struggle by China’s would-be rulers to unite and govern t...
Vijayawada has been declared as the capital of Andhra Pradesh. A journey from north to south of India or vice versa must transit through Vijayawada. It’s a busy transit point for rail and road journeys between north, south and east, west. The city lays 270 kms from Hyderabad, 400 kms from Chennai, 630 kms from Bengaluru and 350 kms from Vishakhapatnam and is...
‘Love Jihad’ makes newspaper headlines and is subject of prime time TV debates. What’s new? According to a report in the India Today (12 September 2012), “Love Jihad in Kerala is part of global Islamisation project”, according to the Global Council of Indian Christians. In 2009, the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) claimed that more than 2600 young Chr...
I must start by saying that Jihadism is my necessary headline shorthand for violent Islamic fundamentalism in all of its manifestations. In this article I’m going to ask and offer answers to two main questions. The first is – Where does this madness come from? I mean what is it, really, that gives birth and life to violent Islamic fundamentalism? In my analy...
India, the world’s second-most populous nation, with over 1.2 billion people, is well situated to play a crucial role, in combination with fellow BRICS giants China and Russia, in carrying out the transformation of the world economy toward one of cooperation for dramatic scientific and industrial progress. While in urgent need of major modernization of its p...