By Anand Kumar When Sheikh Hasina expressed her desire to prosecute war criminals after getting elected for the second time as the prime minister of Bangladesh, people who follow developments in that country knew that it would lead to street battles and clashes. It was not difficult to predict this as it was known that [...]
The War Crimes Trial And Forthcoming Elections In Bangladesh – Analysis
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India: Coping With The Aftermath Of Transgressions In The VVIP Helicopter Deal – Analysis
By Amit Cowshish It has been reported that the government is all set to remove software and consultancy services from the list of eligible products and services through which the offset obligation could be discharged.1 The report says that the government is also finalizing a massive overhaul of defence procurement procedure, providing first opportunity in [...]
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Cyprus May Raise Deposit Levy To 12.5% For Large Accounts – Report
Cyprus is currently deciding whether to raise the anti-crisis tax on savings larger than €100,000 to 12.5%, while reducing the levy on smaller amounts to 3 per cent, a source told Reuters. The Cypriot government has been discussing with its European creditors the idea of reducing the levy on deposits smaller than €100,000 to 3 [...]
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Ron Paul: We Must Expose The Federal Reserve And End The Welfare-Warfare State – OpEd
Federal spending once again dominated the debate in Washington last week, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats began work on their ten-year budget plans. Contrary to claims, neither party’s budget reduces spending. While the Republican plan increases spending a little less than the Democrat plan, it would still spend $5 trillion in 2023, an almost [...]
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Strengthening The “Soul Of Europe” In Europe 3.0 Through Radical Reforms – OpEd
By Hubertus Hoffmann One thing all of us may learn from Lenin: After Stalin and others complained in the meetings of the Polit-Bureau, Lenin always asked: “What to do?” This must be our guideline to save, rediscover and strengthen the ‘Soul of Europe’. Not just words, concrete plans and actions are needed now in the [...]
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Sayyeda Zeinab: The 7th Century Heroine Of Karbala – OpEd
It is well known in this region that powerful foreign and domestic forces in nearly every country, but particularly Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, are increasingly acting, for purely political purposes, to ignite a bloody internecine conflict within Islam. Indeed, the 3/17/13 attacks targeting four Sunni sheiks in Beirut that led to immediate road blockings in [...]
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India’s Genocide And Denial Of Self-Determination For Kashmiris – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge With the UN Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva currently taking place it is a perfect time to explore India’s end of the bargain vis a vis the plebiscite promised for Kashmir to decide its right to self-determination. Kashmir’s fate has been lying in the hands of India for over 6 decades [...]
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Zion – The Promised Land – Too Little, Too Late – OpEd
By William A. Cook It occurred to me as I was rereading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s unfinished novel, Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret, that the good Doctor’s grim reflection on the human condition, delivered to his adopted child, Ned, knowing the child was too young to grasp his revelation, might well give us pause as the state of Israel [...]
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Australia Boosts Burma Aid, Eases Defense Restrictions
Australia promised on Monday to boost aid to and ease defense restrictions on Burma as President Thein Sein became the first Burmese head of state to visit the country in decades. Australia will allow limited defense cooperation with Burma on humanitarian and disaster relief and peacekeeping, but its arms embargo will remain in place, Prime [...]
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Guatemala Genocide Trial A Landmark
The trial of former de facto head of Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, is a landmark achievement in the fight for justice in Guatemala. Ríos Montt was indicted in January 2012 for genocide and crimes against humanity relating to 15 massacres that resulted in the deaths of 1,771 [...]
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Saudi Arabia To Drill 7 Shale Gas Wells
Saudi Arabia will drill about seven test wells for shale gas this year. It will push ahead with exploratory drilling of shale and other unconventional gas reserves which could be twice the size of its conventional gas reserves, which total 286 trillion cubic feet, according to Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi. “We [...]
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Pak-US Relationship: Shifting Paradigm – OpEd
With the caretaker setup being installed, there is an urgent need to revisit the Pakistan-US relationship. Analysis of the prevailing situation has become all the more important as critics seem to be divided into two distinct, but opposite groups, with one group saying the United States needs Pakistan’s support and the second trying to prove [...]
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India: Accused Rapist To Head Delegation To Vatican
Social activists have condemned a government decision to send an MP accused of raping a schoolgirl to lead a four-member delegation to the installation Mass of Pope Francis at the Vatican. An official communiqué said on Saturday that P J Kurien, a Christian and deputy chairman of the upper house of parliament, will head the [...]
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‘Olympic Legacy’: Pioneering Afghan Sportswomen Denied UK Entry – OpEd
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is … honouring International Women’s Day …’ — (Tony Blair Faith Foundation, 5th March 2013.) It was former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who is attributed with the quote “a week is a long time in politics”, referring to the speedy shifting sands of political priorities. If [...]
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Stand With Britain On The Falklands – OpEd
By Jaime Daremblum There are legitimate territorial disputes, and then there is Argentina’s dispute with Great Britain over the Falkland Islands. Here are the basic facts: The Falklands (located in the South Atlantic, roughly 300 miles from Argentina) were discovered by a British explorer in 1690 and have been under formal British rule for 180 [...]
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Obama Travels To Middle East
By Dan Robinson U.S. President Barack Obama departs Washington Tuesday for Israel, the first stop of a four-day Mideast trip also taking him to the West Bank and Jordan. Obama will hold talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and will discuss Syria and Iran. President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will greet President [...]
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Iraq: At Least 56 Killed, 200 Wounded In Series Of Explosions In Baghdad
Car bombs and roadside blasts have killed at least 56 people and wounded nearly 200 in Shi’ite districts across the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, according to police and hospital sources. The Iraqi capital has been shaken by at least 16 blasts throughout the morning, most of them car bombs, including those detonated by suicide [...]
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Obama’s Return To Israel: ‘Nothing But PR’– OpEd
By Alexei Lyakhov and Andrey Fedyashin On March 20, US President Barack Obama is to start a three-day visit to Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. It will be Obama’s first trip abroad after he assumed the office of US president for the second four-year term in January 2013. Critics have already described the upcoming [...]
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Iranian Atheists: Waiting To Come Out – Analysis
By Alexey Eremenko Asked about atheism in Iran, a group of women at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran said they were unfamiliar with the concept. “Maybe there are people like that abroad,” an amiable elderly lady in a black headscarf eventually said in a puzzled tone. “We wouldn’t know.” There is no faulting [...]
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Patrick Buchanan: Was Iraq Worth It? – OpEd
Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. homeland. Exact retribution for Saddam’s complicity in 9/11 after we learned his [...]
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