Unusual U.S. Military Display On Independence Day: Does It Signal An Iran War?
If the fourth of July mid-day parade in
Washington D.C. was depressing, perhaps the heavy, hot and humid weather was to
blame. It seemed to take...
Two Meetings Concluded Last Week … Ramifications
Two
meetings ended last week: the G20
meeting, a forum for leaders and central bank chiefs, and the UN Climate Change
Conference in Bonn.
At the G20,
the...
Climate Chaos, the Science and Our Own Responsibilities
On the last day of the UN Climate Change
(June 17-27, 2019) meeting in Bonn the key IPCC report on 1.5 C was blocked from
further...
The Real Reason(s) Trump Backed Off On Iran
War is a failure of reason, it has been
said, and war with Iran makes little sense after they have faithfully complied
with their nuclear agreement...
India’s Continuing Tussle Between Hindu Nationalists And Reformists
On the evening of January 30, 1948, as he
walked to his regular interfaith prayer meeting, Mahatma Gandhi was shot and
killed. The assassin Nathuram Godse...
Scandinavia Veers Left plus D-Day Reflections as Trump Storms Europe
Mette
Frederiksen of the five-party Social Democrat bloc won 91 of the 169 seats in
the Danish parliament ending the rule of the right-wing Liberal Party...
To Impeach Or Not To Impeach? That Is The Question
Robert
Mueller let loose a thunderbolt midweek.
Donald Trump had not been charged, he said, because it was Department of
Justice policy not to charge a sitting...
Modi Wins May Loses
The Indian elections are over. Despite Narendra Modi's abysmal economic
record -- industrial production has slumped, farmers are in trouble and had
been demonstrating their plight,...
Pointless Colonial Massacres and Post-Colonial Wars and Killings on the Indian Subcontinent
Two colonial mass killings from the
twentieth century are always remembered: The Qissa Khwani
Bazaar massacre on April 23, 1930 in
Peshawar (then India, now in Pakistan)...
The Iran Question
Will there
be war with Iran? Will there not be war
with Iran? The questions are being asked
repeatedly in the media even though a single carrier...