At an event at the Clinton Global Initiative, Mohammad Yunus publicly blurted out what many suspected but the security establishments in many countries knew very well. Per a report in Times of India, Yunus let the cat out of the bag when he said “the student revolution in Bangladesh was not organic, but a meticulously designed agitation...” What is shocking...
Ukraine is not part of Saharan Africa, nor is it a country of illiterate or ill-educated people. How is it possible for Ukrainians to tolerate such a stumble, how is it possible that their tycoon and corrupt political elite so enchanted them and diverted them to the wrong side through manipulations? Instead of confronting their political scum, the Ukrainians...
The life of the physical world that we are all familiar with is obviously the only one we know very much about. Yet each of us as an individual is here for only a limited period of time. We are born, we grow up, we go through life experiences of varying degrees of intensity, we grow old, we die. Most of us feel we should try to make the most of our lives in ...
In the West, censorship is nothing more than a method of government from another age. NATO is waging a cognitive war, not against ideas and reasoning, but to alter citizens’ ability to take into account the way other cultures think. This war first led to the banning of the Russian media, RT, Sputnik and so on. Then, today, to exert very strong pressure again...
The US declared war against Russia’s publicly financed media earlier this month after it claimed that they’re functioning as clandestine arms of that country’s intelligence services and then promised that it’ll apply the utmost pressure upon all members of the international community to ban them too. Few could have foreseen that China, which is one of Russia...
Toward the end of World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin were the two most powerful men in the world. It was the Soviet Union’s Red Army under Stalin that brought final defeat to the German Wehrmacht and had taken over almost all of Eastern Europe. Held back by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from launchi...
In many periods of the history of ancient Iran, Bahrain was part of Iran’s territory. During the Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah era, Iran still claimed Bahrain’s sovereignty. However, after decades, the United Nations accepted the result of the 1971 referendum in Bahrain, which led to the declaration of the country’s independence. After the revolution of 1...
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski’s latest trip to Kiev was disastrous. Polish journalist Witold Jurasz reported that Zelensky accused Poland of withholding military aid after Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz declared late last month that his country maxed out everything that it could give to Ukraine. Zelensky reportedly didn’t believe Sikorsk...
Western media is calling an indiscriminate Israeli terrorist attack across Lebanon that has killed several, including at least one child and injured thousands, “unprecedented” and “sophisticated”. Yet nothing about the attack, which reportedly involved 5,000 pagers rigged with remotely detonated explosives before distribution, was unpredictable or...
Russia is under attack by the US and its proxies. This is a very sad development, for Russia is necessary for mankind’s development. But Russia is in trouble not only externally. The other day there was a procession with the Holy Cross along Nevsky Prospekt in blessed memory of St Alexander of Neva. Right away, many self-styled “leftists” attacked the partic...
There is a seamless link between trade and war. In the words of American scholar of international economy Robert Gilpin, “trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war has been central to the evolution of international relations.” Peninsular India is separated from Sri Lanka by 40 km of Palk Strait. Sri Lan...
On September 10, 2024, Israeli settlers, who claim to be fulfilling a divine plan by settling in the West Bank (Judea-Samaria, in their words), went from being Israeli citizens living in disputed territories to illegal immigrants in the sovereign state of Palestine. At the opening of its seventy-ninth session, the United Nations General Assembly implemented ...
The authorities detained a man on Sunday who attempted to assassinate presidential frontrunner Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida. He was caught with an AK-47, a scope, and a GoPro camera. It turns out that he’s also fairly well known, being a former construction worker-turned-mercenary by the name of Ryan Routh. The New York Times even reported on h...
The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is usually labeled as the “golden age” of the European imperialistic expansion and the making of the greater national states and overseas colonial empires in Africa and Asia. Nevertheless, in 1815 huge territories of the world were still unkn...
The history of international relations weighs heavily and Ukraine is destined to have a future closely linked to Russia, whether politically, economically, culturally or militarily. This implies that Ukraine will be influenced, if not dominated, by Russia in key areas of its sovereignty. It is a matter of life and survival of the Russian nation in a world o...
I’ve been in touch with my old friend Anna Chapman after a considerable interval. She called out-of-the-blue to offer commiseration for the plight of the American polity – or so she said, and to inquire sympathetically how I was faring in the draconian crackdown on all those ‘subversive’ elements who have expressed any regard for Russia. I told her that I ha...
For more than a decade, e-commerce has seen exponential growth in India and around the world. About 6.5 per cent of India’s retail business happens through e-commerce. E-commerce has made life easy, as people get commodities and services conveniently with the click of a button, sitting at home. In today’s world, whether it’s a rail, bus or plane ticket, a ho...
In recent weeks, the Horn of Africa has continued to treat the expert community to a series of political developments that require careful reflection and offer a wide field for interpretation. This time, Egypt has gone from words to deeds—shortly after signing a Defense Cooperation Agreement with Somalia, it has sent the first shipment of military assistance...
The interim Taliban government in Afghanistan has been grappling for international recognition from at least one country for almost 2 years. They extended an olive branch to Russia and China. Both countries desired to establish constructive relations with the de jure Taliban government. However, multiple issues still need to be addressed between the interim...
The state elections in Thuringia were no surprise to what had been reported here over a month ago. The electorate did not heed the traditional parties’ repeated call to boycott the AfD and the far-right won unequivocally, with 32.8%. Despite being a small state of two million inhabitants, the results are very significant, as they have shaken the system of...
RT published a feature analysis on Friday asking, “Has the US finally succeeded in choking off Russia’s biggest trade lifeline?”, which readers are encouraged to read in full to learn more Russia and China’s US-provoked payment problems. In a nutshell, Chinese banks of all sizes have suddenly started complying with the US’ sanctions out of fear of secondary ...
The contrast between the two parties, their platforms, shared values, political culture and ethical standards has never been more evident than now. This extreme discrepancy is evident in everything from the speeches of party leaders to the views that party supporters share on social networks. As the election dates approach, the degree of accusations and rude...
It is obvious that the US-led Western Empire is desperate to destroy one of the last bastions of traditional values and morality, the Orthodox Church, in order to impose its secular religion of deviancy on the countries that are sheltered by the Church. The recent signing of an illegal, unelected Ukrainian president (having overstayed his term of office), of...
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Joe Biden, who has completely lost touch with reality, joyfully, yet pathetically, declared that only the United States has the right to rule the whole world. However, nobody has asked neither the US president nor the United States for this and, moreover, many countries are ridding themselves of US bases ...
Max Weber (1864-1920) was a prominent German sociologist who developed influential theories on rationality and authority. He examined different types of rationality that underpinned systems of authority. He argued that modern Western societies were based on legal-rational authority and had moved away from systems that were based on traditional authority and ...
The globe experienced a significant power shift after the culmination of World War 2. The epitome of global hegemony at the time, the British Empire, was replaced by the United States due to the latter’s economic and scientific rise. This shift was further bolstered by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, marking an end to the Cold War. The USA beca...
The presidential election in Venezuela was yet another opportunity for the West to destabilise the country. The international press consciously presented a totally false version of events in order to discredit President Nicolás Maduro and support his main challenger, Edmundo...
To become truly, Atmanirbhar India has to stand on its feet. In last few years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the country a long cherished dream of becoming a Viksit Bharat, that too self-reliant. Now with a mandate for Modi 3.0, the time has come to lay the foundations and deepen the thought process. The dual target of making the country developed ...
Geopolitics is an approach to politics that stresses the features imposed on foreign policy by geographical location, environment, and natural resources. Geopolitics as a discipline contributes to the emphasis on continuity in contemporary political realism. The focal idea of geopolitics is that those who control the Eurasian landmass (Heartland) dominate gl...
State sovereignty is a reality of International Relations, and those who deny it do so at their own risk regardless of whether they disagree with the forms in which it’s expressed, which Durov just learned the hard way after naively believing that he was invincible for reasons of wealth and ideology. Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest in France...