By Scaria Cherian Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) is welcomed by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before the start of the 19th G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov 18, 2024. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The G20 summit held...
A billet of highly enriched uranium. Be careful who you condemn and ostracise.  They just might be supplying you with a special need.  While the United States security establishment deems Russia the devil incarnate helped along by aspiring, mischief-making China, that devil...
Parts of the ballistic missile named Oreshnik (hazelnut) that Russia used in a strike on Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, November 22, 2024 The American film maker and philanthropist who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, George Lucas, once said, “Fear...
Image Source: hstoops – Public Domain On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah and of the government of Yemen, delivered a speech that...
© Kevin Lamarque/Reuters TRUMP’s victory in the US Presidential election conforms to a pattern presently observable across the world, namely a collapse of the liberal centre and a growth in support either for the Left, or for the extreme Right,...
THIS year’s Nobel Prize in economics (the Riksbank Prize to be more precise) has been awarded to three US-based economists for their research into what promotes or hinders the growth of wealth among nations; and they assign a crucial...
Ramzy Baroud Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went...
Since the birth of the nation-state, corruption has manifested in one form or another. The intrinsic nature of corruption has created a tremendous burden on the state and society. It has caused strain and stress on maintaining the national...
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation. At the time, Brzezinski, the former advisor to US Presidents...
THE fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute. In fact even conservative American economists have started using the term “secular stagnation” to describe the current situation (though they have...