Kashmir – Trouble in Paradise
ahsanBy Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai So much for Ban Ki-moon's heart and possibly even more so his soul. One can only recall the quote in Matthew and the betrayal of…
Astrological Predictions On Asia Cup Final 2016
By Kawnwer Khalid KK's Astrology Astrological Predictions 1) Viewers as we know Asia Cup t20 Final match is getting near, both the contestant teams have come into light. India is going…
Why WW-III is on the horizon
By Paul Craig Roberts The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservatives. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on…
Nepal pulled between the Dragon and the Elephant
By Akhilesh Upadhyay Just before the annual festival season began across Nepal last month, nearly a decade after a civil war, and six months after a catastrophic earthquake, the country…
Erdogan rules by division and Turkey pays a price
By David Gardner President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a titan to his adoring admirers and a tyrant to his despairing critics, has got his way again. Against all forecasts,…
Can the counterinsurgency doctrine be saved?
By Karsten Friis With the apparent lack of progress and success in Afghanistan and Iraq, counterinsurgency (COIN) has fallen out of favor within the political and military establishments in the…
Bangladesh on the brink
By Tahmima Anam Over the last few weeks, the body count of intolerance has been unbearably high in Bangladesh. It started when an Italian aid worker named Cesare Tavella was…
From Africa’s wealthiest democracy under Gaddafi, to US – NATO sponsored terrorist heaven
By Garikai Chengu October 20, marks the four-year anniversary of the US-backed assassination of Libya's former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and the decline into chaos of one of Africa's greatest nations.…
A bombing in Ankara and Erdogan’s political war for total power
By Amberin Zaman In most countries, a tragedy of the scale just experienced by Turkey would unite its citizens. On Oct. 10, a pair of unidentified suicide bombers targeted a…
Obama won’t back down after Chinese threat, sends US warships to contested islands in “matter of days”
On Friday, we reported the latest provocation in what has truly become a very dangerous, if largely pointless, staring contest between Beijing and Washington over China's reclamation of land in…
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