K.M.SEETHI
Sri Lanka does not seem to have returned to its normal conditions even after six days’ of the Easter-day carnage. Panic still grew and fears of unexpected attacks were haunting people even as warnings come in different forms in...
These are uncertain
times with trade wars, regional conflicts and increased abuse of human
and minority rights pockmarking the transition from a
unipolar to a multipolar world. What may be potentially the most
dangerous casualty of the transition is...
K.M. Seethi
The air strikes in Balakot, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, by the Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets set in motion waves of jubilation in India and a deluge of anger and war cry in Pakistan. Launched in...
by Charles Pierson
Ending months of speculation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on January 10 that the Trump Administration would designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels (Ansar Allah) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO).
Branding the Houthis as terrorists will make it...
Traditional diplomacy is being given a
makeover – at least where it is not being abolished altogether and being
replaced by a replica of The Apprentice. US President Donald Trump’s seizure of
the art has been violent and molesting. Had Roman emperors had...
Dan Drollette Jr
With the news that global atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide set a record high last seen 3 million years ago, calls for action have been accelerating—as has press coverage, from publications big and small.
London
was the site of...
Robert Hunziker
Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic
will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in
eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event.
Surely, the world is not...
Who was not rightly moved by the photograph of a Salvadoran father and his daughter drowned and laying on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River?The father, Óscar Martínez Ramírez, was only 25 years old and his daughter,...
The latest confrontation between India and Pakistan involving tit-for-tat air raids has heightened tensions in South Asia. To begin with, the suicide attack on a paramilitary convoy in Kashmir by Islamist extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammad killed...
What a coincidence that a leaked document from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) just exposed that the chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April, 2018 was most likely staged. In security parlance, it was...
