Asia

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction or SIGAR just released the third edition of its High-Risk List to the 116th Congress of the United States ……Read More

While Russia appears to be Washington's "enemy of choice", such would not be the case for all of America.  A recent meeting in Moscow shows ……Read More

Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs, on 11th February 2019, has introduced a path breaking Bill in Rajya Sabha to make it mandatory to ……Read More

The United States military-industrial complex which drives America’s foreign agenda needed a justification for Washington’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and, in this posting, ……Read More

While the Iranian nuclear and missile program have received relatively little coverage in recent weeks, things may well be heating up again. Here’s the latest from ……Read More

A rather interesting new video began to circulate in China on August 1, 2018, the nation’s Army Day.  Here is the video “I am a Chinese ……Read More

While it got zero traction in the Western media, the announcement of a recent strategic trade partnership between Pakistan and China would appear to be ……Read More

The Philippines declared a state of emergency in a northern province after super typhoon Megi made landfall, cutting off power, forcing flight cancellations and putting ……Read More

As the war in Afghanistan drags on, approaching its 17th anniversary, we find that the Trump Administration, the third Administration that has fought America’s longest ……Read More

Here is a recent story that didn’t get a great deal of traction in the Western media, largely because it took place on the same day ……Read More

While the so-called “advanced economies” of the world, the G7 or G6+1, were squabbling over trade issues with the world’s dominant economy, the United States, ……Read More

With the world’s press spending a great deal of its energy on the rather fractious relationship between the United States and North Korea, a look ……Read More

In the past, I have quoted from Global Times, China’s unofficial English-language mouthpiece for the nation’s Communist leadership.  In a recent Op-Ed, the author looks ……Read More

As most of us are aware, the United States dollar, for better or worse, is considered the currency of choice, particularly in the world’s commodity ……Read More

With the appointment of John Bolton, an avowed warhawk and man who has never fought in any war, now being appointed as the new National ……Read More