The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite China and the EU being the largest respective importers of Russian oil and LNG according to Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended this policy by accu...
The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion annually, second only to Social Security in the federal budget. The military outlay is also close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. As a sovereign nation, the United States co...
Reuters reported that the US’ Myanmar policy might shift towards more diplomatic engagement with either the ruling junta or the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in an attempt to obtain access to the enormous rare earth mineral reserves in the second’s eponymous state. At present, the US is suspected of clandestinely supporting some of the armed anti-junta grou...
The future. It stretches before us like a vast, unfurled canvas, pregnant with possibility. Imagine a world where disease is a relic of the past, conquered by medical breakthroughs. Picture humanity reaching for the stars, colonizing new worlds, and pushing the boundaries of human...
Generally speaking, democracies die from corruption. The United States is no exception. America has always suffered from corrupt government at every level. Liberals who put unwarranted trust in government, especially at the federal level, have long been in denial about this fact. Liberals tend to see corruption in state and local governments, especially Sou...
President Trump just made a strong move for peace on earth, and just in the nick of time. The Doomsday clock stands a few seconds to midnight. Russians, who previously sympathised with him, are already beginning to feel disappointed. They feel that Trump submitted to the demands of the Deep State when he bombed Iran and did not stop Netanyahu massacring...
Before turning to the high politics discussed at the summit in Anchorage, Alaska, it seems appropriate to point to two seemingly positive moments that somehow passed almost unnoticed. First, at the post-talks press appearance, Vladimir Putin read from a prepared text. Moreover, he skipped four pages, setting them aside. And second, Russia allowed America’s E...
Trade and economic policy, in the global context, is more than just numbers. I would argue that it is more about power. International trade, investment, and monetary dominance form the backbone of geopolitical influence. For decades, the United States has leveraged its economic leadership to underwrite its global role, shaping rules of commerce, building all...
The United States remains the world’s most powerful economy. With a nominal GDP of nearly US$ 30 trillion, America continues to lead through its productivity, resilience, and relentless culture of innovation. Even after the twin shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent surge in inflation, the economy proved adaptable - rebounding quickly, reinventi...
RT’s report on Steve Witkoff’s claim that Russia has made “some concessions” on territorial issues, which signal a “significant” shift towards “moderation”, prompted talk about whether Putin can legally stop the special operation without first controlling all the disputed territory that Moscow claims as its own. He himself demanded in June 2024 that the Ukra...
After 1947, Indian scholars wrote a ‘nationalist’ history of the Indian freedom struggle and for unknown reasons, they excluded Muslims. For the last seven decades, we have been reading a history of the Indian Freedom Struggle that has largely overlooked the contribution of Muslims. The generations brought up over this narrative believe that either the India...
The U.S. has finally barred Dr. Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance over reckless gain-of-function research, but whistleblower Jeffrey Silverman warns this is just the tip of a much deeper and more dangerous bioweapons iceberg.
After years of denial, deflection, and downright gaslighting, the U.S. government has finally decided to throw Dr. Peter Daszak, an...
This event marked the beginning of an entirely new stage in regional politics, as the Arab states of the Persian Gulf have finally realized the impossibility of relying on external security guarantees. Instead of the old model based on their support from Western allies, they must now form their own regional order, in which Iran will play a key...
The Western empire of corporate extrativism, now led by the US, has normalized hopping around the world to fuel wars of Plunder for resources, using a tired justification that somebody else was about to do something worse. A BBC article published on July 28, 2025, exemplifies this grabber mentality in the headline “How Trump wants the US to cash in on minera...
The leaders of the world’s two greatest powers - Russia and the United States - have met in Alaska to discuss one of the century’s most significant global geopolitical issues: the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The US President Donald Trump likes to tout himself as a dealmaker and an international peacemaker. Before this summit, he expressed considerable...
Putin and Trump publicly confirmed that they found a lot of common ground during their three-hour-long talks in Anchorage, but no grand compromise on Ukraine was reached due to “a couple of big [points]…One is probably the most significant” that remain unresolved according to Trump. Putin’s reaffirmation of the need to “eliminate the primary causes of the...
The dispute over Khor Abdullah (the Abdullah Channel) has long ceased to be just a territorial conflict - it has become a symbol of the systemic crisis of the Iraqi state. This narrow but strategically vital waterway, connecting Basra to the Persian Gulf, has turned into a battleground not only between Iraq and Kuwait but also between the Iraqi people and th...
The Chola dynasty’s legacy was commemorated in July 2025 through the Aadi Thiruvathirai Festival at Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple in Tamil Nadu, highlighting Rajendra Chola I’s historic conquests in Southeast Asia. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the event, releasing a commemorative Rs 1000 coin to honour the emperor’s maritime achievements. This grand...
Trump recently made a show of doubling his 25% tariffs on India as punishment for its continued purchase of Russian energy and military-technical equipment. Influenced by Lindsey Graham, he expected that India would dump Russia after the costs of doing business with it spiked, the Kremlin would thus lose this important foreign revenue flow, and then Putin wo...
As the U.S. and NATO advance missile systems eastward under the banner of defense, Russia responds with its own rearmament, lifting long-standing restraints. The latest shift is not abrupt, but the culmination of years of warnings, warnings that now echo with the sound of missiles returning to Europe. With the INF Treaty defunct and the promises of dialogue ...