By Smruti S. Pattanaik The incident of killing and mutilation of two soldiers of the Indian Army—and especially the beheading of one of them— by intruding Pakistani forces on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) has threatened to derail the India-Pakistan peace process. On the back of the public outcry over the [...]
India And Pakistan: Getting Along With The Peace Process – Analysis
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US Airlifting French Troops To Mali
The United States has begun airlifting French soldiers and equipment to Mali with its C-17 transport planes, in an attempt to push back Islamist militants that have taken over the northern half of the country. The airlifting will continue for several days as the US aids the French government in its initiative to fight Islamists. [...]
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US Defense Dept Provides Airlift Support To Algeria Attack Victims
By Amaani Lyle The United States has provided airlift support to the Algerian government in the wake of recent terrorist attacks at a natural gas plant, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters here today. Little confirmed that U.S. C-130 and C-17 aircraft configured for medical evacuation support moved wounded Americans and others from Algeria [...]
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Israel’s Netanyahu Claims Victory In Elections
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, and says the top priority of the new government will be to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal. Netanyahu spoke shortly after three exit polls showed his hard-line Likud party alliance with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party remaining, by a narrow margin, [...]
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What Does Davos Hold In Store? – OpEd
By Svetlana Andreyeva About 50 heads of state and government and some 1,500 top businessmen are coming to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will lead the Russian delegation at Davos. This will be the 43rd World Economic Forum, the first one was held in 1971. Although the range [...]
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Clinton To Finally Testify Before Congress About Benghazi Massacre – OpEd
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify on Wednesday before the U.S. Congress regarding the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, according to the State Department. Although the terrorist attack occurred four months ago, Clinton will finally be asked questions from American lawmakers from both a House and a Senate [...]
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The Fed’s Plan B – OpEd
“How do you solve a problem when you’re running a 10% fiscal budget deficit? You are not going to get growth without private sector credit demand. The government’s idea right now is that we’re going to export our way out of this, and when I asked a senior member of the Obama administration last week [...]
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The U.S. Tells The World ‘You’re On Your Own’ – OpEd
It has taken four years of Obama’s first term, but Europe in particular and every other nation in general understands it is being told “You’re on your own.” The once great superpower that other nations looked to for defense and support is increasingly an island surrounded by two great oceans. In a recent article in [...]
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Claims Iranian Commandos Training New Syrian Paramilitary Force
Iran has trained a new pro-regime paramilitary force in Syria to fight what is increasingly becoming a guerilla war, according to an anti-regime watchdog. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the force, called the National Defense Army, has evolved from militias organized to protect pro-regime neighbourhoods from rebels. According to the report, most of [...]
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King Mohammed Praises Third Arab Economic And Social Development Summit Held In Saudi Arabia – OpEd
Following is King Mohammed of Morocco’s message to participants at the Third Arab Economic And Social Development Summit Held In Saudi Arabia. “The idea of instituting this Arab Economic and Social Development Summit was prompted by the desire to respond to the aspirations of Arab peoples and to give substance to an oft-proclaimed vision, namely [...]
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There Is No Hope For Change – OpEd
There have been two momentous events in the last week. Of course President Obama’s swearing in for a second term is a big deal, even if somewhat less historic than his inauguration back in 2009. The other big event was the release of the Federal Reserve Board’s transcripts from the 2007 meetings of the Fed’s Open Market [...]
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Egypt’s Morsi Slams France’s Post-Colonial ‘Re-Conquest’ Of Mali
French and Malian troops recaptured Tuesday two key towns from al-Qaeda-linked Islamists holding the country’s north, as Egypt warned the Paris-led offensive could spark regional conflict. The inroads into the central towns of Diabaly and Douentza marked a significant advance in the 11-day offensive led by former colonial power France, whose aim is the “total [...]
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Turkey: Nine Human Rights Lawyers Imprisoned
Yesterday’s Istanbul court decision to order the pre-trial detention of nine human rights lawyers highlights the arbitrary and abusive use of anti-terrorism laws in Turkey, said Human Rights Watch. The 9 were among 12 lawyers arrested, 11 during early morning raids on January 18, and 1 on January 20. In the past few years, Turkey’s [...]
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On Obama’s Second Inauguration – OpEd
There were no memorable lines in President Obama’s second inaugural address. Certainly nothing like Franklin Roosevelt’s “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” which was in his first inaugural, or like John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” [...]
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An Ally Out Of Control – OpEd
As in the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, an aggressive France threatens to pull the United States into another brushfire, nation-building war in the developing world. This time it is in the West African state of Mali. The French have panicked because Islamists, who earlier took over northern Mali, began to move toward southern [...]
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Northcom Pursues Closer Engagement With Mexico
By Donna Miles With a U.S. defense strategy focused heavily on the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East, officials at U.S. Northern Command here are enthusiastically advancing engagement to the United States’ immediate southern border. Mexico, which has long focused its military internally, is increasingly receptive to building a closer bilateral relationship with the U.S. [...]
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Middle East And North Africa: Another Year Of Upheaval – Analysis
The pre-and post-revolt Arab leaders in the Middle East and North Africa face challenges ranging from political uprisings to violent confrontations, with Gulf monarchies replacing republics facing the brunt of the tidal wave of reform demands that have been sweeping across the region the past two years. In Jordan opposition groups boycotted parliamentary elections in [...]
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Sri Lanka Terror Assessment 2013 – Analysis
On January 13, 2013, Sri Lanka Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms, Chandrasiri Gajadeera, disclosed that, of 11,500 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres who were arrested or surrendered at the end of the war in 2009, and who were sent to rehabilitation camps thereafter, a total of 11,375 cadres had been ‘reintegrated’ into [...]
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Pakistan: Deepening Crisis In Sindh – Analysis
By Tushar Ranjan Mohanty It’s a good day in Karachi when only five or so people are killed because on average it would be eight to 10 a day. – Zohra Yusuf, Head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) On January 17, 2013, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA), [...]
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India: Little Respite In Jharkhand – Analysis
By Fakir Mohan Pradhan Repeating familiar tactics, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) lured Security Force (SF) troops into a trap near Amawatikar village in Latehar District of Jharkhand on January 7, 2013. In the ensuing encounter, the SFs lost nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and one Jharkhand Jaguar (JJ) trooper, and at [...]
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