The ice in the frozen lake shifting is one of the coolest sounds you can hear. The air is cold but not freezing, and the woods are silent. The frozen lake looks like it’s been stopped in time, but beneath the placid surface it keeps shifting and moaning. The...
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US Credibility Dented in Iran Standoff
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US President Donald Trump’s reported decision abruptly to call off military strike against Iran which he’d previously ordered, highlights the growing complexity of the US-Iranian entanglement. Indeed, it takes political courage to rationalise amidst such a...
Iran can be Trump’s Nemesis
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
What a coincidence that a leaked document from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) just exposed that the chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April, 2018 was most likely staged. In security parlance, it was a false flag operation —...
Iran to Even the Nuclear Score With US
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is going to be 30 years in another six months since the USS Abraham Lincoln, named in honour of the 16th US President, was commissioned on Nov.11, 1989 as the 5th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the American Navy. Now, as it leaves Croatia and heads toward the...
Governing Ukraine is No Laughing Matter
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Comedy, it is often said, is unusual people in real situations and farce is real people in unusual situations. No doubt, it can be said that by electing comedian Vladimir Zelensky as their new president in a landslide victory in Sunday’s runoff, the people of Ukraine...
China’s PLA Troops in Venezuela is Game Changer
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
(Chinese PLA personnel pose with members of Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces, March 29, 2019)The reported arrival of Chinese military personnel in Venezuela last weekend is undoubtedly a major event in world politics. Unlike Russia, which has a history of...
Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova acknowledged in Moscow on Tuesday that Russian “specialists” are indeed in Venezuela within the ambit of a 2001 military-technical cooperation agreement with Caracas. Zakharova underscored that Russia’s bilateral...
Trump’s Golan is a Megalomaniac’s Own Goal
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US President Donald Trump’s decree on March 26 granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights does not create any new fact on the ground. Trump’s motivations are fairly clear — boost Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
US Leaves Trail of Bitterness in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
On December 17, Ankara was notified of President Trump’s decision on troop withdrawal from Syria. During an earlier phone conversation between him and President Recep Erdogan on Dec 14, Trump had pointedly asked and elicited a positive response from the Turkish leader...
Trump’s Fawning Over Saudi Ties Backfires
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
The G20 is an economic club and it has traditionally stuck to that groove. And Saudi Arabia has traditionally been represented at G20 events by government ministers, usually the oil minister. But this time around, the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, who is just a...
US Doublespeak Hinders Afghan Peace
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Within hours of the announcement on Saturday by the Russian Foreign Ministry that the second meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan will take place on November 9, the US government-funded Radio Free Europe and Liberty has announced that the...
US-Russian Exchanges Gather Momentum
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
If a single exchange stood out during the tense interview of President Trump with the CBS News 60 Minutes on Sunday — Washington Post listed 8 of them — I would say it was when he tried to filibuster Lesley Stahl over the topic of ‘Russian meddling’ in the American...
US-Saudi Relations Enter Unchartered Waters
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
The disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in mysterious circumstances while on a visit to his country’s consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday still remains unexplained. The plot is thickening by the day. The latest reports suggest that he may not even be...
India, Russia and the Post-American Century
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
India’s impending purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system has come to be the leitmotif of the “2+2” dialogue of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States due to take place in New Delhi on September 6. However, the issue here is not about a...
The Ball is in Trump’s Court to Engage Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
As I had written last week, a conversation of sorts has been under way between Washington and Tehran. The megaphone is no longer in use, the conversation is in civil tone from public platforms or more meaningfully, through the Twitter. It’s become an almost daily...
Trump Threatens Turkey with Sanctions. What if He’s Serious?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The frequency with which US President Donald Trump holds out threats to other countries is such that he is no longer being taken seriously. The list of countries threatened by Trump so far includes North Korea, Germany, Canada, China, Venezuela, Pakistan, Syria, Iran...
Russia Exposes British Lies on Skripal, but Trail Leads to US
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
The sensational case of the poisoning of the ex-MI6 agent and former Russian military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal on March 4 in Salisbury, in the UK, is becoming more and more curious. Under a blinding spotlight from Moscow, the British allegation regarding a...
US Attack on Syria is Futile but Serves a Purpose
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United Nations Security Council turned down a compromise resolution on Syria, proposed by Sweden and seconded by Russia seeking investigation on the alleged chemical attack in Douma. Five countries supported the resolution with two permanent members – United...
US Feels Uneasy About Inter-Korean Amity
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has upset all doomsday predictions that once the Winter Olympics Games are over, the tensions on the Korean peninsula would reappear. Kim’s invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang can be regarded as a "game...
The US-ISIS Nexus in Afghanistan Becomes Hot Topic
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Tehran has begun highlighting in loud decibel its hitherto-low key voice of disquiet that the United States is transferring the Islamic State* fighters from Syria and Iraq, where they have been defeated, to Afghanistan.On January 30, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...
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