The world was shocked to see a pro-Trump mob storm the US Capitol Building on 6 January 2021 in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over the incumbent President. A protest is a democratic right and violent protests are the price democracies pay occasionally. So, the violent vandalism […]
The storming of the US Capitol on Jan. 6 is easily misunderstood. Shaken by the ordeal, members of Congress have issued statements explaining that America is a nation of laws, not mobs. The implication is that the disruption incited by President Donald Trump is something new. It is not. The US has a long history […]
US President Donald Trump was able to give yet another speech claiming that the presidential election was riddled with fraud and stolen from him. He told throngs of his supporters assembled in front of the White House that he loved them, and they shouted back that they loved him, too. He asked them to march […]
At least 12 U.S. senators and 140 representatives were expected to object to a handful of states’ electoral votes in a joint session of Congress today — until a mass of pro-Trump protesters breached the Capitol’s security and forced a halt to the proceedings. Since the passage of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, following the […]
The current ultimate photo opportunity for world leaders is being inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine live on TV. It was one of Joe Biden’s first acts as US president-elect, signaling to the American people not only that it was safe, but also that containing and defeating the coronavirus pandemic is his priority. US presidents traditionally […]
Here’s a prediction for the new year you can take to the bank: the Republican Party and the entire right-wing media ecosystem will be fixated on something that neither has felt compelled to mention during the past four years – debt and deficits. A Democrat arriving in the White House has a way of suddenly […]
India’s capital is under siege from more than two million farmers, who are currently gathered at the city’s border in a massive protest that started two weeks ago. Old and young men, women, and even children from farming families are camping on open roads in the bitter cold of a Delhi winter. They have abandoned their […]
India got upset seeing the resolution on India-Occupied Kashmir (IOK) adopted at the end of the 57th OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) Foreign Ministers’ conference (CFM) held on November 27-28 in the city of Niamey, the capital of Niger. Despite the expansionist and illegal Indian occupiers outwardly shouted to boost the psyche of common Indians, […]
US President Trump’s disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic probably cost him re-election. Yet it seems mind-boggling that he still won more votes than any incumbent president in American history despite his dereliction of responsibility at a time of a once-in-a-century health crisis and economic devastation. Why are President-elect Joe Biden’s margins so thin in […]
