Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) waves as US President Barack Obama looks on following a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on June 7, 2016 in Washington, DC. (photos by AFP) India has access to almost 99 percent of the United States’ military know-how as it is a “major defense partner”…
Following the recent escalation by China when it announced it is ready to impose an Air Defense Identification Zone to target US spy flights above the South China Sea and “thwart US provocations”, China has decided to return the favor and as Reuters reports a Chinese observation ship shadowed the U.S. aircraft carrier John C….
In order to understand the hype surrounding the phenomena of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, we need to understand the prevailing global economic order and its prognosis. What the pragmatic economists have forecasted about the free market capitalism has turned out to be true; whether we like it or not. A kind of global economic entropy…
This is the second in a two-part series. Read Part one. American imperialism’s permanent war in Central Asia The May 21 killing of the Taliban’s political leader, Mullah Mansour, by American Special Operations served notice: After four decades of covert operations and military violence, US imperialism is forging ahead with new and still bloodier crimes…
The assassination of Taliban Emir Mullah Akhtar Mansour, carried out Saturday, May 21 by a squadron of American military drones, was an immense provocation. One that should serve as a grave warning to the international working class and oppressed masses as to the incendiary role US imperialism is playing in world geopolitics. The summary execution…
Source: reuters.com RIYADH | By Angus McDowall Saudi King Salman (C) attends a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia May 31, 2016. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via Reuters Under King Salman, Saudi Arabia is expanding its confrontation with Iran well beyond the Middle East, no longer relying heavily on Western allies to smother Tehran’s…
