India, Russia and the post-American Century
M K Bhadrakumar l
India’s impending purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system has come to be the leitmotif of the “2+2” dialogue of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States...
Crisis in Kyrgzyztan: Another Color Revolution or Even Civil War?
Andrew Korybko |
Crisis in Kyrgzyztan: Another Color Revolution or Even Civil War?: Russia’s CSTO mutual defense ally and fellow Eurasian Union member Kyrgyzstan has been suddenly thrown into yet another crisis earlier this week...
Another ‘Arab Revolt’?
M K Bhadrakumar l
The Arab sheikhs who instigated the US-Iran standoff have heard the African proverb, ‘When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’. But they chose to ignore it. The assumption in...
It’s In Kashmir Where Trump Can Win The Nobel Peace Prize
Andrew Korybko |
It’s In Kashmir Where Trump Can Win The Nobel Peace Prize: India just did everything that “Israel” wished it could do in Palestine by abrogating Kashmir’s relative “autonomy”, imposing a draconian curfew in...
Sudan At The Cusp Of Revolution
Asif Haroon Raja l
Sudan had remained a colony of the British for 56 years after which it gained independence on January 1, 1956. Located in northeastern Africa, it shares border with Egypt to the...
Kashmir Is India’s Palestine, Palestine Is “Israel’s” Kashmir
Andrew Korybko |
India’s revocation of Kashmir’s relative “autonomy” embodies everything that its new “Israeli” ally wishes it could do to Palestine such as eliminating its separate political status and giving non-residents of the UNSC-recognized...
Secrecy and Lies: Chernobyl and the U.S. Government
Jacob G. Hornberger |
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet seen the excellent HBO miniseries Chernobyl and might yet do so, you might want to wait to read this article until after you have seen the...
US Could Change Global Geopolitics By Becoming The Top Oil Exporter In 2024
Andrew Korybko |
The International Energy Agency forecast that the US could become the world’s top oil exporter by 2024.
The report attributes this to “the incredible strength of its shale industry”, noting that it amounts to “a...
China’s Rise in the Middle East: Beyond Economics
James M. Dorsey |
If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the window and increasingly adopt attitudes associated with a global power,...
Who’s afraid of Afghan peace talks – Kabul and Delhi?
M K Bhadrakumar |
Henry Kissinger wouldn’t have approved the way Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, handles the Afghan peace talks. Even if Tweeter were in vogue in the late sixties, Kissinger...
2019: A Bad Year For Indian Air Force
An Indian Air Force plane carrying eight crew members and five passengers has mysteriously vanished. This incident happened months after Pakistan Air Force shot down two Indian fighter jets in late February in the...
Russia has more in common with Israel than you may think
M K Bhadrakumar |
The rocky partnership between Russia and Iran in the Syrian conflict is entering a turbulent period. The unprecedented US-Russia-Israel security summit due to take place in Jerusalem next month has no other explanation.
A...
Modi’s betrayal of Iran is only the beginning
M K Bhadrakumar |
The sudden visit to New Delhi by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif for a meeting on May 14 with the outgoing External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the dying...
New India expects Pak obedience, not camaraderie
It is no big secret that the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a damp squib. The impression becomes unavoidable that the decision to invite the little-known BIMSTEC...
The Most Powerful Arab Ruler
Opinion |
Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, the 29-year-old commander of the almost negligible air force of the United Arab Emirates, had come to Washington shopping for weapons.In 1991, in the months after Iraq’s invasion of...
UNSC Meeting: Pakistan’s Victory on Diplomatic Front
TIC Focus |
The UN Security Council held a consultative meeting on Friday to discuss the Kashmir issue where Pakistan urged the world body to implement its own resolutions on this 70-year-old dispute.It being a...
Iran’s master plan to isolate the US
M K Bhadrakumar |
The new kids on the block are unaware that not a year had passed since the Islamic Revolution in Iran 40 years ago when US sanctions against that country wasn’t a...
Khashoggi crisis highlights why investment in Asia is more productive than in the Middle...
James M Dorsey |
Growing Western political and corporate reluctance to be associated with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the suspected killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi spotlights fundamentally different investment strategies and environments in...
‘Saudi spring’ on India’s doorstep
M.K. Bhadrakumar |
The breakthrough in India’s relations with Saudi Arabia stands out undoubtedly as a foreign-policy success story of the Modi government. This was on full display at the India Energy Forum meet at New...
MBS: Riding roughshod or playing a risky game of bluff poker?
James M. Dorsey |
A stalemate in efforts to determine what happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is threatening to escalate into a crisis that could usher in a new era in relations between the...
A hat trick for Trump’s presidential legacy
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR |
It is clear by now that US President Donald Trump’s remark on Thursday as he was setting out for the Group of 7 (G7) summit in Canada on the readmission of Russia...
From control to corruption
Dr Farid A Malik |
Control of the democratic process has resulted in massive political corruption that we have to deal with today. Controlled democracy does not work. It has been repeatedly tried but with poor...
Jamal Khashoggi rejiggers the Middle East at potentially horrible cost
James M. Dorsey |
The fate of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, assuming that his disappearance was the work of Saudi security and military officials, threatens to upend the fundaments of fault lines in the...
Battling it out at the UN: Potholes overshadow US-Iran confrontation
James M. Dorsey |
It’s easy to dismiss Iranian denunciations of the United States and its Middle Eastern allies as part of the Islamic republic's long-standing rhetoric. The rhetoric makes it equally easy to understand...
Francis Fukuyama: Identity politics is undermining democracy
Nathan Gardels |
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist at Stanford University. His latest book is “Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment,” which came out in September. He recently spoke with The...
KSA & CPEC: Marriage of convenience?
News Review|
Pakistan has struck a $10 billion deal with and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after taking the Chinese authorities in confidence over the KSA joining as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project as a...
Global watchdog takes Saudi Arabia to task for lax anti-terrorism finance measures
James M. Dorsey |
A Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report criticizing Saudi Arabia’s anti-money laundering and terrorism finance measures puts the kingdom on the spot 17 years after the 9/11 attacks and casts a shadow over...
Is US ready for peace talks with Taliban?
Asif Haroon Raja |
17 years have gone by but so far there are little prospects for the longest war in Afghanistan to come to an end. Lilliputians have paralyzed the Gulliver and brought a...
Saudi King Salman Looking to Remove Son Mohammad as Crown Prince: Report
News Analysis |
The Saudi crown prince, for his involvement in controversial projects and issues, invited national and international criticism including, it seems, the loss of confidence of his father, the King.
Saudi crown prince Mohammad...
Why the US Re-Deployed HTS-ISIS terrorists from Idlib to Afghanistan?
Firas Samuri |
Recent intensified fighting and offensive action in Idlib proved the U.S. is losing its ideak leadership. The more so, there is much talk today about the risks of a new era of...
