Both revolutions of 1917 in Russia, the so-called February and the so-called October, took place during World War I (the Great War) when Russia fought against the Central Powers and their allies as a full member of the Entente powers together with France and Great Britain and their allies, including the Kingdom of Serbia, for which Tsarist Russia selflessly ...
The highlight of the month of October is Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya’s official visit to India from October 16 to 18. This was 55-year-old former academic’s first visit to India after she became Prime Minister. She is no stranger to India, particularly New Delhi, having studied and graduated from the Hindu College with B.A. degree in...
Donald Trump’s scatterbrained performance as ‘statesman’ poses a formidable challenge to foreign leaders and analysts alike. The struggle to interpret meaning and purpose seems futile because the man possesses no approximation of a mind capable of coherent thought processes. Trump’s behaviour is driven by obsessive emotions unedited by thought – expressed in...
Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, Vladimir Putin wanted to join NATO. It was early in his Presidency in 2000 when he expressed interest in Russia becoming part of NATO. In a March 2000 BBC Interview, when asked if Russia could join NATO, Putin then-Acting President, said: “Why not? I don’t rule out such a...
Putin announced that more than ten thousand Ukrainian troops were encircled in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeisk (Pokrovsk), with his Ministry of Defense soon adding Dimitrov (Mirnograd) near the latter to the list. The Russian leader also proposed halting the fighting so that foreign journalists, including Ukrainian ones, can travel to the front to report on...
While deep state propaganda convinces public opinion that Russia is evil, armies are being prepared for war before our very eyes. The Chief of Staff of the French Army, General Pierre Schill, has just announced to the National Assembly that he is preparing for the next war against Russia. Meanwhile, the Polish Deputy Prime Minister has announced that he will...
Tensions in South America continue to escalate. Washington is promoting a naval siege of Venezuela, sending several military vessels - including aircraft-carriers and nuclear-capable submarines - to the Caribbean Sea. Furthermore, bombings of Venezuelan boats arbitrarily classified as belonging to drug traffickers have become frequent, resulting in the death...
Since the latter half of the 20th century, upon joining the NATO bloc, Turkey became a military-political ally of the United States. The American “nuclear umbrella” against the perceived Soviet threat resulted in Turkey’s significant economic and military dependence on the US and Western European countries, the establishment of American military bases in Ana...
The common image of the Sahel is one of arid lands, poverty, and despair. But this image is dangerously outdated. Today, the Sahel is not a “disaster zone” but a sort of “Silicon Valley” for criminal innovation. This is where business models, which 20th-century mafia bosses could only dream of, are being tested and...
Donald Trump managed to impose a form of peace in Gaza, not only against Hamas, but also against Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. His adversaries were neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis, but the Israeli and British “deep states.” Thierry Meyssan Analyzes this sleight of...
Today's NGOs were created to shelter the rich from the income tax that was levied to pay for World War I and later wars. Today these NGOs continue to foment wars against all humanity. No Kings was rightly labelled the geriatric flourish of a dying generation. It was also an attack by the privileged on the urban poor and the middle class across America. It...
The new coalition fell just a few votes short of a Diet majority, but the opposition once again failed to unite against the LDP, whose president received 237 of the 465 votes. The dynamic of the previous coalition, comprising the LDP and the center-left and pacifist Komeito, was that Komeito partially curbed the LDP’s right-wing ambitions to remilitarize Jap...
In October 2025, Georgia held local elections in which the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party secured approximately 80.7% of the vote, winning across all 63 municipalities. The elections were boycotted by major opposition parties, further consolidating GD’s control over local...
Since returning to the White House for a second term, US President Donald Trump has unleashed a wave of policy decisions that have unsettled both domestic and global observers. His new economic agenda-anchored in reciprocal tariffs, the Big Beautiful Bill, and the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE-marks a radical departure from conven...
The historical movement that has set the self-regarding individual as the lodestar of social thought and organization is a multi-causal and multi-dimensional phenomenon. It has an aesthetic aspect: the arrangement of living space that encourages and accommodates full expression of that self. That is the topic of this venerable essay that is taking its final...
Aditi was mother earth that had risen from waters (attributed to Varaha avatara). The one who rises from her and torments people must have been a volcano. That was Narakasura. Naraka means tormenter. Because he was a tormenter he was identified as Naraka! The location name Prāgjyothisha also has relevance to volcano. Prāg means summit and the Prāgjyothisha r...
In the wake of cracker ban by the Supreme Court on the entire country, Diwali this year (2018) has evoked great interest among people comparing the variants of this festival in different parts of the country spanning over a period of not just one day, but five days, making people wonder which day was referred to by the Supreme Court in its stricture on...
Publication of the 1878 San Stefano Treaty’s articles caused great unrest and dissatisfaction among the Albanian people.[6] From that time onward, a movement just for improvement of the social conditions of Albanians living in the Ottoman Empire was transformed into the Albanian national movement (rooted in Islamic tradition), requiring either the creation o...
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870‒1871, in the following decades, European politics were marked by a period of intense armament, which would finally lead to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. In the meantime, several international crises broke out both in Europe and in its overseas colonies, which could have led Europe to the Great War even bef...
In the workshops of the Ruhr, where the fire of blast furnaces was once considered Europe’s eternal companion, today reigns a cold more expensive than any raw material. An economic pause has descended in icy silence. A tombstone rests on the grave of industrial greatness, signed by Europe’s own...