“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” (J.Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972)
Did the Government believe the claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction or was the aim regime change, which has no basis whatsoever in international law? Was this the real motivation? Secondly, when...
The end of international law and diplomacy
The end of the Cold War was welcomed as a new era of peace and security in which swords would be transformed into plows, former enemies into friends, and the world would witness a new dawn of universal love, peace and happiness. Of course, none of that happened. What happened is that the AngloZionist Empire convinc...
I should thank dear friend Andrew Korybko for giving me the inspiration to write this article. After he interviewed me a few days ago on his program Redline on Sputnik Radio, it became clear to me that Erdogan is perceived by many observers as a fairly mercurial character; which he is. However, if we dissect his ideology and history, we may get surprised and...
Russia and its President, Vladimir Putin, a little more than a year ago, in July 2014 were the focus of attention in Europe and North America, accused, without a shred of forensic evidence, of shooting down an unarmed civilian Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine. The Russians were deemed out to restore the Soviet Union with their agreement to the popular...
Article 370 infructuous, 35(A) redundant
Jammu and Kashmir acceded to the Union of India when its Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession on 26th October, 1947 in the presence of the then Secretary of the Union, Shri V.P. Menon. India’s Governor-General Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the accession on the morning of 27th October, 1947. The Indian Army w...
At the final plenary session of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, Sochi, on October 22, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that Washington relies not on diplomacy, discussion, and compromise, but on lies and coercion and treats its allies not as allies but as vassals. Putin described the folly of Washington’s plan to “f...
The greatest secret: the West has no people on the ground in Syria to take over the liberated territories; the Russians still seek partnership, Erdogan has bitten more than he can chew, and ISIS is a phantom, after all.
Russians are enjoying their Syrian adventure. Twenty days after its start, their entry into the Syrian war has paid off and brought some di...
On October 11th, ground breaking ceremony for a grand memorial to Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar was performed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai. It was an occasion mixed with joy as well as agony, for it took six decades after his death for India to build a memorial for a great son at his final resting place, chaityabhoomi. The prime minister expres...
India’s engagement with Africa is set enter a new phase with the hosting of the 5-day summit meeting with the leaders of the continent. The first summit level talks were held in 2008 in New Delhi and the second in 2011 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Though the links between India and Africa are millennia old and New Delhi had supported the continent’s struggle fo...
Options for Daesh, the Empire and Russia: The Russian offensive in Syria is still very much in full swing and it is hard to make sense of what is really happening or how effective it has been. According to the Syrians, 40% of all the infrastructure of “Daesh” (meaning ISIS+al-Qaeda+all the hundreds of smaller groups fighting together against the Syrian gover...
The 1030-page verdict delivered by the Supreme Court of India declaring The National Judicial Accountability Commission Act, 2014 as ‘unconstitutional’ has created consternation across the country. Four of the five judges on the bench struck it down as void, while Justice Chelameswar was the sole dissenter.
Until the 1993 verdict by a nine-judge bench of...
The whitefly attack on the Bt Cotton crop in Punjab and Haryana, which has decimated almost fifty per cent of the harvest, demolishes the myopic view of the Genetically Modified Organisms industry that introducing a bacterium into plant genes produces disease-resistant high-yielding crops on a sustainable basis. The devastation has triggered over two dozen s...
The Hon’ble Supreme Court must shut the door on Nandan Nilekani’s ill-conceived brain child, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and order the overseeing of the destruction of its entire biometric and related databases as the government proposed opt-out/lock-out policy (as mentioned by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi) is not...
The war in the Ukraine goes on, seemingly with no end in sight. It is not just a civil war, by the way, but a proxy war of aggression waged by the United States and its European and Anglo-Saxon satellites against the Russian Federation. Why the US government should pursue such a dangerous policy may be a mystery to some people, and so it is good to remember ...
There is a disconcerting parallel between what happened in the US back then and what happened in India in 2006. Monsanto was already into Bt cotton and trying to push Bt brinjal through its Indian subsidiary Mahyco (Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company). The former Chief Justice of India, the late Y.K. Sabharwal, said against the background of an on-going PIL on ...
Genetically manipulated crops and foods, known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) pose as yet unknown risks not only to the environment but to public health as well. GMO research is at the frontline of the future bottom line of agribusiness giants such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta and Cargill. They are the most enthusiastic crusaders for GMOs, which reac...
Looking back over the history of the French colonisation of Syria, and comparing it with the actions of Presidents Sarkozy and Hollande, Thierry Meyssan brings to light the desire of certain of today’s French politicians to recolonise this country. Theirs is an anachronistic and criminal position which is steadily transforming France into one of the most hat...
Following the speech of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, which he delivered before the General UN Assembly on September 28, 2015, and the latest developments in Syria it evoked, global mass media engaged in a heated debate over the topic of international terrorism, which is associated these days with the activities of militants of the Islamic State...
If the United States is pushed out of the Middle East, it is not going to survive - Zbigniew Brzezinski, CNN interview with daughter Mica
It has been quite a show watching panic set in at the Pentagon, White House and NATO, as the modest Russian air campaign began tearing up the terrorist infrastructure in northern Syria. Forty percent is claimed to have...
One of the many gut-wrenching dimensions of the soon to be five-year Syrian crisis is that whenever one surveys the conflict on the ground and concludes that the maelstrom can’t possibly get any worse, it plummets deeper into the abyss. The condition of people in Syria has never been worse in modern...
Since Vasco da Gama attacked and took over the peaceful international spice market in Calicut, Asia embarked on five centuries of violence and subjugation that continues to this day. At the time 50% of the world’s GDP was of India and China. Today the joint percentage of GDP is about 20% after the recent increase in economic activity, China vastly...
As the news of the Russian military action in Syria intensifies and takes more rather affirmative steps, the rest of the world cannot help but to look with a mixed bag of emotions all the way from awe to gratitude, anxiety, disappointment, frustration or fear and many others in between. Diverse as they may be in their outlooks, all observers are united in th...
The world leaders have just concluded adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 targets with an ambitious intention of alleviating global poverty by 2030. But there are miles to go before actual implementations are seen on the ground. Statisticians from different countries are expected to meet in April 2016 to fix the indicators for the targets. It ...
At a time when there is much discussion in the country about the aborted ordinance on the land bill, there now comes a thrust from the proponents of the industrial type of agriculture in the form of a campaign “Allow Golden Rice”, starting from the Philippines, moving on to Bangladesh and India. Ironically, the campaign was headed by someone who was at the t...
Narendra Modi’s multipurpose visit to United Sates of America in the last week of September, the second since he became prime minister, was a significant step in his continuous efforts to revive the Indian economy. In his rather hectic trip, apart from attending the UN meeting on millennium development goals and meetings with world leaders on the sidelines o...
The Russians have arrived in West Asia, with a bang, with airstrikes against the terrorist Islamic State (Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham, or Daesh, in Arabic), giving a new leash of life to the beleaguered Syrian President. Their arrival has strengthened Iran, the sole regional ally of the Damascus regime, given a fillip to the Shia...
The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the Shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger’s move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person. He expected his country to be tr...
The conflict which has plunged Syria into mourning is not a war opposing different communities, but a war between two projects for society. On one side, a modern, secular Syria, in other words, a society which is respectful of ethnic, religious, and political diversity; on the other, the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, who, since their creation in 1928, ...
The liberal hawks and the neo-conservatives have been unable to provoke the confrontation with Russia for which they were trained during the Cold War. Finally, the voice of reason has prevailed. While discrete negotiations are under way to seek an end to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia and China are preparing to convince the United States and their allies to p...
The just concluded visit to the US by Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands out in many ways. The visit significantly upgraded Indo-US bilateral relations via the new avatar of India’s foreign policy – economic diplomacy. This economic diplomacy defines and will continue to define the contours of a new relationship with the US. If the response he received...
It’s not at all surprising except in how fast it’s going. Within the space of little more than a decade, since the ill-fated Bush Administration decision to invade and occupy Afghanistan, then Iraq in March 2003, the United States of America has managed to lose strategic influence and allies across the entire Middle East. Not only the Shi’ite Iranians, whom ...