The European Union was founded not by Europeans, but by the United States and the United Kingdom to better control them. The European Commission (formerly called the High Authority) is the unelected administration responsible for imposing their will on the Member States. In recent years, it has managed to expand the Commission’s powers to the detriment of th...
The transition from years of confinement in a maximum-security prison to standing here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is a profound and surreal shift. The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey; it strips away one’s sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of...
During his electoral campaign, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian promised voters in his election to introduce new reforms to remedy injustices in Iranian society and to strengthen the role of the Iranian state in the international arena. It is now time to move from declarations to action. Of course, the current political situation in the world and as it re...
In January 2016, with the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, the UAE reduced its diplomatic relations with Iran. The UAE tried to de-escalate tension with Iran by sending a delegation after May 2019. The government of Iran’s then president, Ebrahim Raisi, tried to take a big leap in expanding relations with the...
Israeli officials brazenly and presumptuously declared that this would only be a ‘limited operation’ targeting Hezbollah’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon, a region where Israel’s vicious 18-year occupation ended only in 2000. On the other hand, Hezbollah has vowed to continue fighting Israel and has said that the group was ready for a long war after most...
Even atheists and agnostics would agree that Navratri, the nine-day festival celebrating the divine feminine energy called Shakti, or Maa Durga, is an empowering tool for Indian women and no other civilization or culture offers it to them. The festival, celebrated differently across India – the most festive celebrations happen in West Bengal and some...
In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences by several external political units of the time. According to the official historiographical traditions (mainly of Western origin), Kievan R...
“I was not a party to the order of the removal of the accused (Bhagat Singh & his associates) from the court to the jail and I was not responsible for it anyway. I disassociate myself from all that took place today in consequence of that order.” The above order passed by Justice Sayyad Agha Haider as a member of the Special Tribunal at Lahore to try Bhagat S...
A multipolar world implies diverse ties for mutually beneficial international cooperation, covering a range of areas in the fields of politics, economics, culture, security, information and, of course, law. A just world, being the most important global value of the new world order, is an expected political goal. However, such a world cannot become a reality ...
One would have expected the Biden administration to leave a legacy of a significantly functional mechanism producing collective security and prosperity at the end of its era in 2024. But, as it turns out, QUAD remains where it was in 2021: a club that hosts little more than tea parties to mean anything. The club, as the Indian Prime Minister remarked after t...
Polish President Andrzej Duda declared that his country “will need to intervene immediately and bring in experts” should Russia attack Ukraine’s nuclear power plants (NPP) in Rivne and Khmelnitsky Regions. This follows his Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski proposing in early September that Poland should protect these facilities, which was analyzed here, and co...
In an Israeli attack, Hassan Nasrallah, a senior Lebanese cleric and secretary general of Hezbollah, was killed on September 27th. Israel has officially claimed responsibility for his death. Netanyahu’s government officials have celebrated his death because Hezbollah is Israel’s strongest rival in the region. Israel used a 2000-pound US-made bomb in an...
The latest Israeli-Lebanese War shattered everyone’s expectations. Hezbollah’s enormous missile stockpile made them all believe that “Mutually Assured Destruction” (MAD) had been achieved with Israel, thus restraining both combatants’ actions in any future conflict, but Israel’s intelligence superiority and the Resistance Axis’ reluctance to escalate ultimat...