The award of the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in The Hague. This has come as a surprise – even to the OPCW. So far, according to the OPCW’s own records, only Albania and India have completely destroyed...
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Saudis to Unify Hardline Islamist Groups in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
The speculations about Saudi Arabia climbing down on the regime change project in Syria in tandem with the United States’ diplomatic moves following up the Russian initiative on chemical weapons, can now be laid to rest. So indeed the animated talk in hushed tones in...
Is Turkey on the Cusp of Rethink on Syria?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
Through the past two-year period of turmoil in Syria, President Bashar Al-Assad has shown himself to be a master tactician who consistently outmaneuvered his regional adversaries. Syria has a tough neighborhood. Al-Assad’s regional adversaries are formidable people in...
The Dragon Enters NATO's Orchard
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
What a tumultuous week it has been. It began with United States president Barack Obama’s speech in the UN General Assembly last Monday signaling that the era of American dominance of the Middle East is ending. But the signal is already being acted upon before the week...
Obama at the UN: Syrian Blues and a Persian Puzzle
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
The general expectation was indeed that the United States President Barack Obama’s annual address at the United Nations General Assembly session on Tuesday would contain some major pronouncements of new American policy direction on the Syrian conflict and over the...
Syria: The Iron in Obama's Soul
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the sacred cow – "boots on the ground". The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops although the Obama...
Obama Nearing Point of No Return
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on the Syrian crisis, while on a visit to Vladivostok over the weekend, were his first ones since the crisis began snowballing over the United States’ moves to launch a militarily attack against the Middle Eastern country.What is...
Iran Can Finesse Obama's Legacy
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama is setting a new precedent in America’s history as an imperialist power. He is all but apologizing before he orders a military attack against a sovereign country with which the United States is not war, and which has not offended America’s vital...
The West Strikes Back in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
No sooner than the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus – within 72 hours, in fact – the Syrian opposition figures based in Istanbul, Turkey, have claimed that up to 1400 people have been killed in chemical weapons attacks by the government...
Egypt's Junta Has Nothing to Lose
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
The appointment of Robert Ford as the new American ambassador to Egypt was indeed an ominous sign that the Obama administration expected civil war conditions to arise in Egypt. Ford’s forte during his hugely successful “diplomatic’ assignment in Baghdad in the middle...
Obama's Wild Neo Con Dream
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
It is now clear that the preliminary meeting at Geneva this week of Russia, the United States and the United Nations for setting a date for the Geneva-2 conference on Syria ended inconclusively. The meeting couldn’t agree when the Geneva-2 should be held or who would...
A Tipping Point in Syria Conflict
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: FreedomHouseThe Guardian newspaper featured on Friday an infinitely sad picture of a Syrian young boy, hardly nine or ten years old, crossing a street holding an old rifle with bayonet. He apparently belongs to the ‘Martyrs of Maaret al-Nuan’ battalion holding...
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