For the past three years the U.S. has fought the construction of the Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany every inch of the way. The battle came down to the last few miles, literally, as Denmark has been withholding the final environmental permit on Nordstream 2 for months. The U.S., especially under Trump, have…
The world’s most powerful company claims political bias plays no role in its day-to-day operations. Yet how do we explain its funding of left-leaning media amid elections and calls to regulate the Silicon Valley monolith? Google, headquartered in Mountain View, California, has announced recently it will be funding 34 media organizations in North America –…
For an Indian who ever had anything to do with the making or implementation of India’s Kashmir policy, listening to the 2-hour long Congressional hearing in Washington, DC, on October 22 would have been a scandalous experience. There has never been such scathing criticism of our Kashmir policies in the recent decades voiced so openly…
The South Transitional Council (STC) will receive domestic and international legitimacy for its separatist cause after entering into a reported power-sharing agreement with Hadi’s government as part of a peace deal aimed at ending the ambiguity over South Yemen’s political status following the group’s dramatic liberation of Aden in August. *** The author declared back…
Since the moment the votes were totaled in the June 2016 Brexit referendum there has been nothing but handwringing about what it implied. The Brexit vote showed, quite clearly, that growing political unions were unsustainable. It was the first in a series of electoral losses where the people finally said enough to an expanding EU….
The United Nations’ independent expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories issued a damning verdict last week on what he termed “the longest belligerent occupation in the modern world”. Michael Lynk, a Canadian law professor, told the UN’s human rights council that only urgent international action could prevent Israel’s 52-year occupation of the West…
