Mehjabin Bhanu – Bangladeshi columnist, security and strategic affairs analyst, and teacher. A recent increase in remittances, touching $1.07 billion during December 1-15, 2023, underlines significant support for our foreign exchange reserves. This significant increase not only indicates promising growth but also reveals a resilient pattern in remittance flows. As Bangladesh navigates through economic transitions […]

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER Courtesy The Unz Review I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on […]

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Saeed Naqvi A brutal tragedy is being played out on an epic scale between Israel and Gaza. Though the scale is truly epic, it still constitutes but a sub plot in the cosmic drama of a hegemon’s fall, to describe which Milton’s description on another epochal fall is apt: From morn till noon he fell, […]

Times Radio There’s definitely a growing concern, a growing nervousness at the indiscriminate nature of the bombing of Gaza by the IDF.” A tipping point” is approaching where the West will stop supporting Israel because of the “dire” situation in Gaza, says Huff’s Post, Kevin Schofield, as the UK foreign secretary slaps a travel ban […]

Democracy Now! We discuss President Joe Biden’s “full support for a scorched-earth campaign” in Gaza with _The Intercept_’s Jeremy Scahill, who says the U.S. is providing “political cover and rushing weapons there and giving support to the most pernicious lies that Israel [is] telling.” Despite the Biden administration’s recent assertions that it is helping to […]

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By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase Solidarity with the Palestinian people.” That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side […]

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peoplesdispatch.org The Colombian head of state has been consistently speaking out in support of Palestine amid Israel’s genocidal attacks. At the COP 28 summit, he pointed out that the devastation wreaked on Gaza was a harbinger of what might happen to those fleeing from climate catastrophes December 03, 2023 The United Nations Climate Change Conference […]

by Vijay Prashad On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is disputed with neighboring Guyana. Nearly all those who voted answered yes to the five questions. These questions asked the Venezuelan people to affirm the sovereignty of their country over Essequibo. Today,” said Venezuelan President […]

Saeed Naqvi When the dust settles on the Israel-Gaza war, Israel will be confronted with an existential question: should it redesign itself to harmonize with the region and beyond? Or continue in old, exceptional ways? The exclusive Israeli-style vengeance witnessed in the 51 days of bombardment, a jaw for a tooth, was possible only with […]

Mehjabin Bhanu- Bangladeshi culuminst, security and strategic affairs analyst, teacher. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) encourages governments to work together to regulate shipping involved in international trade and to adopt the highest standards that are practical in terms of maritime safety, navigation efficiency, and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships.  The International […]

Sonali Kolhatkar Courtesy Iran Herald 18 Nov 2023, 23:13 GMT+10 Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked for permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating a people. We are being forced to become involuntary accomplices to mass slaughter. Palestinians, on the basis of their legal right against being wiped […]

Courtesy The Nation On November 11, an Arabic-language Twitter account maintained by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a video purporting to be a selfie by a nurse in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, a major battlefield in the current conflict that was taken over by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a few days later. In the startling video, as […]

by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. In last Friday Sermon (17th November 2023) delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad reiterate Ahmadis to Continue their prayers for Palestinians, His Holiness said: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Fifth […]

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Geopolitical Economy Report A geopolitical analysis of why the United States so strongly supports Israel: Economist Michael Hudson discusses with journalist Ben Norton.

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Destruction in Gaza Washington, November 16: US public support for Israel’s war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that was completed on Tuesday. Some 68% of respondents […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – Bangladeshi culuminst, security and strategic affairs analyst, teacher On November 11, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially opened the Matarbari port channel and lay the foundation stone of the Matarbari deep sea port. There is a plan to build a deep-sea port on 1,031 acres of land in Matarbari, Maheshkhali upazila, Cox’s Bazar, […]

A.J. Caschetta Courtesy Israel National News The Tamil Tigers are only a memory, thanks to the Sri Lanka government which decisively ended a 40-year war against them. Read how. Op-ed. HamasSri LankaWar Against TerrorA.J. Caschetta Sri LankaiStock There are many parallels between Sri Lanka’s decades-long fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan (LTTE), more […]

KEVIN BARRETT Courtesy The Unz Review Ever since February 2022, Western mainstream media has been telling us that Russia cannot possibly win its war in Ukraine. Zelensky, with his hundreds of billions of dollars’ backing from the West, would surely prevail. Russia has always been taking unbearably heavy losses. Putin is always about to keel […]

by Liz Theoharis Courtesy Counterpunch.org On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – A Bangladeshi columnist, security, and strategic affairs analyst, teacher The nation is experiencing to some extent an economic crisis. In between, political upheaval has begun. The blockade-strike has begun. The misery of regular people will intensify as a result. All items, especially consumer goods, have seen price increases in recent days. There’s […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Call for Gaza ceasefire in London streets Colombo, November 8: With the war in Gaza entering the second month, and the killings taking the shape of a genocide, Western governments are coming under mounting pressure from their people to revise their pro-Israel stand and enforce a ceasefire or at least […]

Saeed Naqvi The speech last Friday by the Hezbollah Supremo, Hassan Nasrallah, arguably the most popular leader in the Arab street, has evoked mixed responses. The less familiar with the caverns of West Asian affairs expected the speech to be a precursor of greater fire power in support of Hamas to deter more Israeli barbarity […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Top United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber resigned in protest of Israel’s “text-book case of genocide” in Gaza, warning that “key parts of the UN have surrendered to the power of the US”. Our related video “US blocks peace in Gaza, supporting Israel’s genocidal war on civilians”:    • US blocks peace in Gaza, supporting I…   || Geopolitical Economy […]