Vacationing in North Korea Only for the brave or crazy?
ahmed sabirBy : Doug Bandow In the popular mind, there may be no more forbidding destination on Earth. I've never had as many people ask if I was serious when I…
US eyes India as junior partner in Afghan war
By : Melkulangara Bhadrakumar The regional tour of Pakistan and Afghanistan earlier this week by a «bipartisan» delegation of United States Senators gives some clues about the Trump administration's strategy…
India will suffer worse losses than 1962 if it incites border clash
The face-off between Chinese and Indian troops in the Sikkim section of the Sino-Indian border seems to be escalating. The Indian military was quoted by Indian media as saying that…
Separate Gorkhaland GJM leader Bimal Gurung raising Gorkha army? Seizure of combat gear raise suspicion
As the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland entered day 21 on Wednesday, a media report unveiled that the driving force behind the shutdown, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), is planning…
A terrible beauty is born in the geopolitics of Kashmir
The tallest Kashmiri politician today, Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir and an erstwhile cabinet minister in the central government in New Delhi,…
Russia’s ‘Doklam Dilemma’
Through the month-long India-China standoff in Doklam near Sikkim border, Moscow has not spoken. Russian diplomacy is presumably at work. The ground is slippery, because “territorial sovereignty” is a hugely…
Russia quietly begins building third military base in Syria
Moscow plans to oversee new 'deconfliction zone' in country's south, charged among other things with clearing ISIS away from Jordanian border By Sami Moubayed Over the past few days, the…
The road to Donald leads through Ivanka
By : David Böcking and Vanessa Steinmetz A head of government praises his daughter for a project to which he then provides millions of euros in support: It's the kind…
America’s glorious guilt
Who is Medina, and why should we be mindful of her? By : Michael Gerson She tells me she is 40, but she looks more like 30. She smiles beautifully…
America’s self-inflicted decline
Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accord has drawn widespread condemnation and criticism. But it is just the latest example of a self-inflicted blow to…