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 ...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Pakistan on a two-day visit on August 2. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at Nur Khan Airbase, where he was given a 21-gun salute - a ceremonial honour underscoring the significance of the growing bilateral ties between Pakistan...
The year 2025 marks an important milestone in our nation’s history - not only the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism, but also the end of the war in the Far East. This victory deserves to be commemorated in our country with far greater seriousness and breadth than it currently is. The point, in the author’s view, is that increased attention to celebrat...
Trump announced on Friday [Aug 1-ed] that the US will deploy two nuclear submarines near Russia in response to former President and incumbent Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev’s social media posts warning about the risk of nuclear war with the US. Trump evidently interpreted that as a threat due to Medvedev’s official position, however, an...
On July 15, 2025, while most Western media outlets were fixated on NATO posturing in Washington, a very different kind of summit took place in Tianjin, China. There, the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states gathered under the quiet but firm leadership of China’s Wang Yi. Iran’s Abbas Araghchi, Russia’s Sergey Lavrov,...
The first week of August 2022 brought vivid memories of the lethal capacity of the nuclear bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (9 August). It showed the destructive human streak for nuclear annihilation. The United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres became the second UN chief to personally go to ...
On August 6 and 9, 1945, America signed a new chapter in human history - written in blood. Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there flared what Washington would later call a “scientific breakthrough,” while the world remembers it as a barbaric spectacle of annihilation. The bombs with their mocking names - Little Boy and Fat Man - carried not only destruction. The...
The month of July is remembered in Sri Lanka for many eventful things that changed the course of history. But two events - the Black July Pogrom carried out on July 23, 1983 and the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) signed between President JR Jayawardane and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on July 29, 1987, stand out among them. Both the events have a ‘Cause...
Today, the People’s Republic of China is not only an economic superpower in terms of the strength of its economy, but also a key player in global trade and economic processes. This position is further reinforced by geopolitical factors, especially at a time when a significant part of the world majority refuses to accept the hegemony of the blatant planetary ...
What Ursula von der Leyen (VDL) agreed with Trump on Sunday was the definitive capitulation of the old continent to the strategic designs of the US, still referred to as a ‘transatlantic partner.’ A historic humiliation, which Trump described as ‘a very satisfactory deal for both sides, a very powerful deal, the biggest of all deals.’ This is another step to...
If Trump’s tariffs don’t coerce India into becoming a US vassal, which the US would then exploit to coerce concessions from China in advance of its ultimate goal of restoring unipolarity, then he might settle for letting China subordinate India instead as part of the “G2”/”Chimerica”...
American policy has turned trade into a ritual of humiliation. A tariff is not an economic tool; it is a whip, branding those who forget their place in the hierarchy of empire. Behind the façade of “protecting national interests” lies an ancient ritual of tribute: pay for the right to breathe in the American market, pay for the right not to be labelled a...
India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin recently published an informative opinion piece at NDTV titled “Tariff Blitz: Is India Becoming Collateral Damage In Someone Else's War?” The gist is that the West, via Trump’s threatened 100% sanctions on Russia’s trading partners upon the expiry of his deadline to Putin for a ceasefire in Uk...
The terrorism to which we are all too accustomed involves wanton violence by one party against another, usually directed against civilians, often without warning, and with no evident purpose but to destroy or gain ascendancy and control through fear and intimidation. Of course terrorism can include economic or political acts as well as kinetic or military. E...