Gambling with World War III
TOO many opposite and unyielding opinions are ranged on the subject, which requires an explanatory note before coming to the point. The ungainly White House spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky…
World War III?
THE president of Ukraine has lately devoted a great deal of his energy to soliciting international attendance at a supposed peace conference scheduled to be held in Switzerland in mid-June.…
World War III
If humanity ever suffers a Third World War, chances are good it will start in some locale distant from the United States like the Baltic or South China Seas, the…
Russia-Ukraine war divides the world – II
Communist states viz., Cuba, Vietnam and North Korea have been generally supportive of Russia. In South America, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Nicaragua are sympathetic despite the majority of OAS (Organisation…
Washington’s war on Iran
The US and Israeli air strikes on Iran on February 28 took the Iranian authorities and most of the world by surprise because of the earlier optimistic reports about the…
Democracy and war
Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is not the enemy. Its manipulation is. For decades,…
Putin’s stupid war
IN a Russian town called Yelets, 350 kilometres south of Moscow, Irina barely earns a living by working as a bus ticket collector. “It’s very hard to get by,” she…
Epstein’s creepy world
MORE than three million files related to disgraced financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have recently been released by the US Department of Justice. The files shed light on the intersection of…
How the West lost its world
For nearly eight decades after World War II, the international system revolved around American leadership. Anchored by institutions such as the UN, Nato, the Bretton Woods financial architecture and a…
Death of the liberal world order
The US-led West, in the aftermath of World War II, established the so-called liberal world order with the proclaimed goals of promoting democratic values, a market economy, the rule of…
