As the World Cup gets fully underway, we can review the massive international campaign to make sure it never happened. The campaign was – obviously – not a success, but it involved at least seven countries and a host of lobby groups, PR firms, think tanks, and front groups. The first part of this investigation looks […]
The US Midterm elections in most cases is a losing affair for the incumbent party even during normal times. People are not better off during the first half of the Biden administration. In some cases, they are even worse off than during the Trump administration. The Democrats went to the voting centers with a nightmarish […]
The Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Ito Naoki, stated in Dhaka on November 14, 2022 that the police and other election officials “have stuffed ballot boxes the night before election day” in 2018. He further exclaimed that he had “never heard such things in any other country.” He also hoped that such things never happen again […]
On October 15, bipartisan resolution 1430 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to formally recognize the crimes against ethnic Bengalis by the Pakistani armed forces in 1971 as “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.” The resolution urges the Pakistani government, among other things, to apologize to the Bangladeshi people for the […]
Emboldened by the US led international pressures for a credible election in Bangladesh, the main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been campaigning for some time for an immediate termination of the illegal current Awami League (AL) administration led by Sheikh Hasina. The BNP wants to hold the national elections under a neutral […]
Invincible Hasina! Having been in power for nearly 14 years, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed of Bangladesh thought she was invincible. She had reasons for her assertions. She had carefully crafted the steps. First, the previous constitutional provision for an election time Caretaker Government (CTG) was unceremoniously discarded. It was aimed at managing the poll […]
Mary Elizabeth Truss is the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British political history. Were it not for the fact that the BBC last night screened a special episode of its most iconic and longest-running drama series as part of the celebrations of that corporation’s centenary, she would have become the first Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan not to […]
Lord Palmerston, a British statesman and two-time prime minister, is still remembered for his pragmatic theory of international relations. He described international relations as relations with no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests. Countries and world leaders have invoked the theory ever since Lord Palmerston created it, underlying its inherent truth and infallibility. […]
And so in a puff of smoke, or in this case underwater smoke, the magician reveals his trick. The war in Ukraine was never about sovereignty nor even about further encroachment on the Russian Federation by NATO and America, although they obviously played a part in the overall plan to destabilize the Russian Federation with […]
The tragic death of a young woman in an Iranian police station who was seen collapsing on CCTV is a devastating blow to her family and friends. We all mourn the loss of an innocent young woman while we await the official outcome concerning the cause of her death. While local police are still investigating […]