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9 Aug 2014

GENOCIDE IN IRAQ

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Travis Weber The dramatic evidence pointing to the extermination of Christians and Christian culture in Iraq by the Islamic State of Ir...

FIGHTING WITHOUT SILVER BULLETS

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Caroline Glick Hours before Israel accepted the Egyptian- brokered cease-fire deal on Monday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu t...

50 THINGS BARACK OBAMA HAS DONE WRONG

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John Hawkins Why would anyone dislike Barack Obama? Could it be because of what he’s done in the White House? As you get a refresher on...

THE B.R.I.C.S DEVELOPMENT BANK: A GAME-CHANGER?

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Sonia Hukil At the 2014 BRICS summit held in Brazil from 14-16 July, the five member countries agreed to the creation of a New Developmen...

AFGHANISTAN: THE FRAGILE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

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Matthew Porges Afghanistan’s ongoing presidential election, if successful, will mark the first transfer of power via an election in that ...

PEOPLE OF THE WORD

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Peter Lopatin Simon Schama’s choice of “Story” in place of “History” in the title of this impressive new work is fitting, for the history...

HILLARY CLINTON'S REPUTATION

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Jay Cost The rollout of Hillary Clinton’s new memoirs, Hard Choices, was not a resounding success for the former secretary of state. She ...
5 Aug 2014

IS THINKING OBSOLETE?

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Thomas Sowell Some have said that we are living in a post- industrial era, while others have said that we are living in a post-racial er...

NEPAL, INDIA AND THE ELECTRITY TRADE: ADVANTAGED KATHMANDU

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Subin Nepal Sitting on a theoretical possibility of producing 84,000 megawatts of hydro-electricity, Nepal currently produces about 700 ...

INDIA-SRI LANKA: STRENGTHENING REGIONAL COOPERATION

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Asanga Abeyagoonasekera August marks the death anniversary of the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, a remarkable Foreign Minister brutally assass...

NUCLEAR USE: NEED FOR THINK ON POLITICAL-LEVEL CONSIDERATION

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Ali Ahmed In a recent op-ed, 'Counter Pak Nuke Tactics ', nuclear strategy expert Manpreet Sethi rightly states in the conclusion...

AND THEN THERE IS THE MIDDLE-EAST: THE LACK OF AN END-GAME

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Amit Gupta US’ policy towards the turmoil in the Middle East, or the lack of it, is shaped by three factors: traditional ties and allianc...

NORTH KOREA: SEEKING NEW FRIENDS?

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Sandip Mishra North Korea appears to have become increasingly desperate in its behaviour. It executed its number two leader Jang Song-tha...

INDIA AND THE CONFLICT IN GAZA

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Ranjit Gupta The creation of Israel in Palestine was a Western venture to expiate their guilt for their historical ill treatment of the J...

THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE AND SECTARIAN VIOLENCE: RAMIFICATIONS FOR PAKISTAN

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Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy Following the unilateral declaration of an Islamic ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria, the self-declared ‘Caliph’ Abu...

IRAN-P+5 NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS: WHAT'S HOLDING IT UP?

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Ruhee  Neog The six-month interim Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) between the P5+1 and Iran expired on 20 July with the negotiating parties f...
3 Aug 2014

IN CHINA, AN IRRATIONAL INDICTMENT

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Ellen Bork On July 30, Chinese communist authorities indicted Ilham Tohti, a Uighur intellectual, on charges of separatism, a charge tha...