Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads–-Socrates What was August 15? —- A Revolutionary act? A military coup? Or was it an overthrow of a despotic regime? Most people will point at either or all. But the Awami administration of Sheikh Hasina Wazed has given it a distorted color and dubbed it […]
Over the last two weeks, the UK’s so-called “Nasty Party” proved how nasty it could be. There are few things more divisive than a battle for the leadership of the British Conservatives. After all, it turns out that, much as many of their traditionalists do their best to maintain their party’s history of snobbery, chauvinism […]
All is not well in the state of Bangladesh. Here things are far worse than what Marcellus told Horatio in Hamlet: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. Since 2009, what dogged the Bangladeshi polity under the Hasina Regime – unbridled violence and massive corruption at every level of society – has turned into an […]
Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen arrived in India last month to fight political fires. But he found himself dealing with massive floods that hit Sylhet and Assam. Nature has its ways to convey that not all is well in India’s near-east. Far from the glitz about Bangladesh’s economic success, on display during the recent […]
The above caption is a popular slogan of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). This slogan takes our memory back to the events, which occurred in Dhaka on November 7, 1975, events which many of us saw in person. It reminds us of a legacy of the spontaneous resistance of the common people of Bangladesh to […]
Sri Lanka is facing a quagmire of multiverse political and economic issues. The inflation rate in the country increased to 25%. The cost of essential items is skyrocketing. Economic experts are considering this the biggest economic crisis since the independence of 1948. If you roam around Colombo city for tea, you will have to pay […]
In recent years NATO – essentially the USA and Western Europe – has bared its fascist roots through multiple interventions across four continents. The NATO states backed fascist coups in Venezuela, Honduras and Bolivia, imposed blockades on dozens of nations, fomented Al-Qaeda/ISIS/Boko Haram sectarian terrorism to destabilize Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria, and are now […]
The political tempest in Pakistan that prematurely toppled the democratically elected Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is proving to be a great folly for the action’s beneficiaries in Pakistan and their nearest and distant overt and covert perpetrators. The cross-sections of Pakistanis overwhelmingly rejected the change in their country and spontaneously took to the streets in […]
Pakistan is currently experiencing a major political and constitutional crisis. On 3 April, the deputy speaker of the National Assembly threw out a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, which was projected to receive a majority of votes. The rationale given was the alleged presence of a foreign conspiracy to topple the elected government, […]
Democracy and Human Rights have become significant aspects of Joe Biden’s foreign policy. The current President of The United States of America has centered his foreign policy acknowledging the democratic backsliding and wants to restore US leadership in world politics. On December 9-10, 2021, Biden arranged a Democracy Summit. Later that week, under a new […]