On July 3, 2012, Al Jazeera published a report of the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland that claimed to have found significant traces of polonium in samples taken from…
Category: Global Issues
No country in the world has suffered so much and for so long at the hands of two super powers in the last thirty years than Afghanistan. One after the other they invaded Afghanistan wreaking…
While the United States, Israel and their European allies are pulling out all the stops to isolate Iran over its nuclear program, the upcoming meeting of the heads of state of the Non-Aligned Movement in…
Strait History: Iran’s Options George Santayana wisely said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Oblivious to history and its lessons, the United States and its Western allies are repeating their…
Imperial Arrogance Spells Fatal Over-reach for the US and Western Allies The United States and its Western allies are behaving increasingly like the doomed emperors of the late Roman Empire: decadent, self-indulgent and supremely arrogant….
“Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation.” (BBC Mission statement.) As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, “media errors” or perhaps even “obfuscation” create their own…
While the media mouthpieces of the war lobby continue to push for a violation of international law in Syria, in the West voices of peace and reconciliation are being systematically silenced. For Mairead Maguire, non-violence…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi announced their countries’ stances after a meeting on the situation in Syria at the United Nations office in Geneva on Saturday. Lavrov said that…
Syria’s crisis remains the focal point of the world politics as a new escalation in and around the country broke out last week. The root cause of the conflict unraveling in Syria since March, 2011…
Writing an obituary about a terrorist? I couldn’t degrade myself to that; yet, the topic was amusing to the extent of irresistible. “The Digger” had died. Yesterday, June 30, 2012, Israel’s seventh Prime Minister Yitzhak…