The US Election Saga Continues – The Republican Convention
The festival of demagoguery, jingoism and cult of personality is over, and seldom has the public been deluged with such a combination. Is it...
Kashmir’s pain and the Fourth Geneva Convention: Is there room for peace?
The crux of the Kashmir problem is very simple (although often carefully elided in many essays on the subject): The Kashmiris want a voice...
Elite impunity and the Chilcot Report – Will Tony Blair ever go to jail?
What stands out in the British Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot) report is the sidestepping of the war crime issue. But then it was carefully placed...
A Coup And a Very British Coup: The Chaos of Brexit
In 1952, a group of army officers mounted a successful revolution in Egypt. King Farouk was sent into exile and his son Fuad put...
The Presidential Election and U.S. Democracy
A belief in the paradigmatic nature of mature Western democracies is notoriously widespread. Nothing could be further from the truth. We, here in the...
Strange Bedfellows
Sadvi Prachi is the leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council). In Roorkee, where there has been a communal clash injuring 32...
The hypocrisy of regime change
Why is the US so enamored of regime change? From coups (too many to count) in Latin America, to destroying democracy in 1950s Iran,...