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...
In the world of high-stakes politics, where image and recognition are often equated with influence, the Nobel Peace Prize remains the most coveted trophy. Its winners forever inscribe their names in history as architects of peace and reconciliation. Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, whose tenure was one of the most vivid and polarizing i...
When Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv in May 2022, peace in Ukraine was within reach. Three years and a million pounds later, Europe is paying the price for a corrupt man and a continent’s silence. When history revisits the Ukraine conflict, one episode may stand out as a turning point: Boris Johnson’s sudden visit to Kyiv in April 2022, just after a tentative pea...
Russia’s new war doctrine has left the trenches behind - merging drones, data, and diplomacy into a seamless front that stretches from the Caribbean to cyberspace, where power is measured not in missiles but in algorithms.
The world imagines the proxy war in Ukraine as something fought in trenches and timelines. Russia knows...
Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs concluded a recent press release on their country’s clashes with Afghanistan, which are the most intense in years, by writing that “We also hope that one day, the Afghan people would be emancipated and they would be governed by a true representative...
Argentina is back in the news with renewed financial turmoil spurred by President Milei’s poor political standing. That poor standing is the product of anger with Argentina’s dire economic performance and massive corruption within Milei’s administration, and it augurs poorly for his party’s performance in the forthcoming October 2025...
The war brewing along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border is not just about militants or misplaced fences. It is a reckoning showing the collapse of Pakistan’s decades-old illusion that Kabul could be controlled, that jihad could be managed, and that alliances in South Asia were still...
A strange hysteria has seized Europe. It is not about tanks on the border or missiles over cities but about drones: small, unverified, often harmless drones. They appear and disappear in the skies over Denmark, Germany, or Poland, and within hours, headlines scream of “hybrid war” and “airspace...
Regardless of how any analyst perceives this pact, an additional layer of regional stability or a mere reactive token to send a message. It still signals a shift in Middle East security structures, a need for a boost in south-south cooperation architecture, and a receding unipolar world...
Britain, France, Germany, and Poland are usually the first countries to come to mind among those who discuss NATO’s containment of Russia, but the Netherlands and Belgium are quickly becoming important too. Rotterdam Port’s chief executive told the Financial Times in mid-summer that space will be reserved for ships carrying military supplies at NATO’s reques...
Africa today is a laboratory of an accelerated future, where solar panels are laid on the ground faster than Europe’s sleepy bureaucracies manage to approve yet another climate regulation. Chinese technologies are sprouting from African soil so rapidly that the myth of the West’s “green leadership” is tearing at the seams. A region long described as a fragil...
This was already his third European tour just this year. In February, Wang Yi paid visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland and also took part in the annual “Security Conference” in Munich. In early July, he represented the Chinese side at the 13th “China–EU Strategic Dialogue” held in Brussels, after which he visited Germany and...
It wasn’t expected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone’s surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially at the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. Institutions dedicated t...
Populist-nationalist politician Andrej Babis is poised to return to the premiership after his party’s victory in the latest elections. They lack a majority but are expected to build a coalition with some of the smaller parties that share their worldview. This is a major development since Czechia has been under liberal-globalist control since Babis lost re-el...
This question cannot be answered in the binary of yes or no. It has to be answered in the backdrop of the robust defence partnership that has grown during the last two decades between India and the US. Both the countries have signed several key agreements that enhance military cooperation, interoperability and strategic alignment between them. These...
Unknown drones recently flew in close proximity to Danish and Norwegian airports, prompting speculation among some that they were Russia’s delayed hybrid retaliation against NATO for backing Ukraine’s drone flights in proximity to Russia’s own airports over the past few years. No evidence has emerged in support of that hypothesis, but Zelensky still dishones...
The United States is escalating its confrontation with China under the guise of “deterring aggression,” while in reality reorienting its global strategy toward maintaining hegemony over Asia through destabilization, political manipulation, and military...
The relations between the United States and Afghanistan have been intense since the return of the Taliban to power. Both sides fought for around 2 decades in Afghanistan in the so-called “War on Terror.” This war concluded with a peace agreement in 2021, leading to the Taliban’s return to...
Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan… were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that he presented at the White House this week and Shehbaz Sharif’s public endorsement of its 20 points have raised eyebrows. After all, Pakistan has espoused some of the fieriest anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian ...
There’s little doubt that Ukraine has an interest in escalating NATO-Russian tensions through these means, including by employing anti-government Russian and Belarusian nationals in this reported plot, but it’s debatable whether Poland is involved in this and the extent to which it might be if...
Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a result of his steel and aluminum tariffs, for consumer price inflation mainly from his tariffs, and for affordable housing with his tax cuts that have kept long-term interest rates high for mortgages, auto and equipme...
The return of Robert Fico to the Slovak premiership nearly two years ago saw his country reverse its policy towards Ukraine from supporting Western warmongering to emulating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s policy of calling for a quick end to hostilities. Some might therefore be surprised to learn that Fico pledged in early September to assist with W...