US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abdul Momen in Washington on Monday, April 10. It was Blinken who had asked Momen to meet him to discuss the current state of affairs in Bangladesh, in particular the modus vivendi for the next parliamentary elections. Secretary Blinken also wanted to address the […]
The Honorable Donald Lu Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20520 January 8, 2023 Dear Assistant Secretary Lu: The Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) is greatly delighted to learn that you would soon lead a high-level […]
In view of the second life-threatening attempt on US Ambassador Peter Haas in Bangladesh last Wednesday, December 14th 2022, by rowdy supporters of the Hasina Regime slightly more than four years after a similar attempt on Ambassador Marcia Bernicat in August 2018 in Dhaka, one wonders if the Regime is not only bankrupt – both literally […]
President Joe Biden is undermining his party’s Congressional prospects through a deeply flawed foreign policy. Biden believes that America’s global reputation is at stake in the Ukraine War and has consistently rejected a diplomatic off-ramp. The Ukraine War, combined with the administration’s disruptions of economic relations with China, is aggravating the stagflation that will likely deliver […]
In the wake of the open statements of some heads of Arab regimes at the “Jeddah Summit” and having affirmed their position on the rightful Palestinian cause in their political media discourse, followed by statements of very few Palestinian officials (from within President Mahmoud Abbas’ entourage, who expressed their gratitude)… after all such positions, one […]
There are significant parallels between the international crises in Cuba in 1962 and Ukraine today. Both involved intense confrontations between the USA and the Soviet Union or present day Russia. Both involved third-party countries on the doorstep of a major power. The Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to lead to WW3, just as the Ukraine crisis […]
The United States in the post-World War 2 era carved out two distinct global enemy blocs: the Soviet Union and China. US foreign and domestic policies have been centered around these and the threat of communism of the “evil empire of Russia” and the “evil red empire of China.” Generations of Americans have grown up […]