Obama has uses for Turkey-Russia tensions
ahmed sabirBy M.K. Bhadrakumar Turkey may have succeeded in scuttling the idea of an international coalition under the United Nations auspices to fight the Islamic State (IS). The talks in Moscow…
Putting US forces onto sovereign Syrian territory, is an act of war
ahsanBy Patrick J. Buchanan The United States is being sucked into a new Middle East war,” says The New York Times. And the Times has it exactly right. Despite repeated…
Close Guantanamo and return it to Cuba
By Marjorie Cohn Obama has yet to fulfill the promise he made in his January 22, 2009 executive order to shutter Guantanamo “no later than one year from the date…
Arming dictators – An American tradition
By Mel Gurtov Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid-package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to…
West Fathered ISIS
Kashif MirzaThis is an organization that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated,” Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told…
The ‘US way of war’ from Columbus to Kunduz
By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flower The confluence of Columbus Day Weekend and the Kunduz hospital bombing has us thinking about the deep levels of cultural violence in the United…
The US cannot afford to forget Afghanistan and Pakistan
By David Ignatius Last weekend's deadly attack on an international hospital in Afghanistan was a reminder of the terrible war that grinds on there, with Afghan civilians caught in the…
China’s footfalls in Hindu Kush echo in NY
I simply could not believe, while reading the US state department transcript of the High-Level Event on Afghanistan at foreign-minister level in New York on Saturday, that India chose to…
Nawaz Obama Dialogue – Strategic Compass & Strategic Autonomy
Nusrat MirzaThe Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and President of United States of America met on October 22, 2015 at White House Washington. Both leaders along with their…
Russian Presence near Undersea Cables Concerns U.S.
In October 1971, the American submarine Halibut entered the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan, found a telecommunications cable used by Soviet nuclear forces and was successful in tapping its…