Courtesy Independent (UK) Ukraine had earlier pushed for the president’s participation in summit that will be held in Delhi. Volodymyr Zelensky will not attend the main G20 conference as invites for the summit this year were sent out only to the members of the Group of 20, host country India has confirmed. The confirmation by Delhi has put an end […]

Anup Sinha – a strategic and security affairs researcher and freelance columnist specializing in South Asian Affairs A United States-based news outlet ‘The Intercept’ has published what it claims to be the details of a diplomatic cypher” – or a secret cable – that suggests the US administration wanted to remove former Pakistani Prime Minister […]

The world News This story has gone viral! Report 1: Does Leaked Cipher Vindicate Imran Khan? Vantage with Palki Sharma – Aug 10, 2023  Imran Khan had accused the US of masterminding a plot to topple his government last year. He had also talked about a cipher in which the US asked Pakistan to remove […]

By Pavan Kulkarni August 05, 2023 Nigeria’s Senate refuses to support ECOWAS plan for West-backed military intervention A day after ECOWAS chiefs of staffs finalized plans for a military intervention, Nigeria’s Senate refused to support President Bola Tinubu’s proposal to deploy soldiers. Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS. Meanwhile, Niger has seen multiple demonstrations […]

Dr Atle Pearson Every day, our mentality becomes more convoluted and twisted. We are all like exact copies of one another. toast with fruit mash. Put a lovely veil over the biting bitterness. It is the pinnacle of civilization’s crisis. It is incorporating morals. The venomous sting of this dualism is biting our society and […]

Courtesy Teheran Times TEHRAN – After years of unsuccessful diplomatic efforts, the Iranian government has decided to initiate legal proceedings against South Korea over Iran’s blocked assets in the East Asian nation.  In a letter dated July 22, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi referred a government bill to the Speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf for […]

Dr. Farhad Chowdhury  More than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees are living in Bangladesh, and the UNHCR’s most recent news item, “Rohingya refugees face hunger and loss of hope after latest ration cuts,” raises questions regarding their nutritional status and food security. At the beginning of the year 2023, the World Food Program (WFP) shockingly lowered […]

Nandita Roy Foreign diplomats poking their noses at the country’s internal affairs does not fall within the Vienna Convention. Although the government has repeatedly expressed its enthusiasm on this matter, the foreign ambassadors are not stopping talking. The government warned the ambassadors and heads of missions of 13 countries including the United States for talking […]

Anup Sinha Congressman Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US Congress and the chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that there are many questions about the democracy of the United States. Donald Trump’s undemocratic behavior has created such a situation. He said, I am always vocal about the […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka The incident took place on Sunday morning local time in the Casagrande area near the city of Phoenix in the state of Arizona, USA. Earlier on July 18, Bangladeshi youth Yazuddin Ahmed was shot dead at a gas station on Hampton Avenue in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bangladesh […]

By Uriel Araujo  Courtesy Global Research,  While Western discussions have focused on sending sophisticated weapons to Kiev, Hal Brands, a Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, argues that what Ukraine needs the most, besides air-defense systems, is artillery ammunition. He describes the current conflict as an artillery-centric one: if Kiev can’t find […]

Anup Sinha The United States is often referred to as the ‘champion of democracy and human rights’. But over the past two decades, as it has transformed into a multicultural society, the United States has faced numerous domestic human rights problems, including institutionalized racism, hate crimes, and extrajudicial killings by criminals and law enforcement. Numerous […]

Pathik Hasan  Dhaka based security and strategic affairs analyst Foreign diplomats become active when the election time approaches. Their activity becomes like a political party. While the ruling party protested this breach of etiquette, the opposition parties rightly took their word for it. Sometimes prompting them to be more active. They are also seen going […]

Dr. Ibrahim Islam Violence, hatred, division – these are unpleasant words. Its meaning can be found in the dictionary. Synonyms of those words can be found in the dictionaries of other languages of the world. The meaning of those words is the same in the dictionary of all languages of the world. When students and […]

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Emilia Fernandez The United States and Bangladesh have close, long-standing relations that have their roots in history. Friendships between the two countries have grown over the past fifty years, increasing cooperation in fields like economic development, environmental preservation, counterterrorism, democratic government, and human rights defense. However, the recent acts of the US government and President […]

Dr. Shakuntala Bhabani Assistant Professor and Southasian affairs researcher in the Political Science department at a Kolkata Honors College Recent years have seen a perplexing change in the fundamental attitude of the West, led by the US, towards nations in South Asia. The US periodically exhibits a hostile and indifferent attitude towards this friendly country, […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – Bangladeshi culuminst, security and strategic affairs analyst, teacher. The new US visa policy was introduced before the general elections in May 2023. US Secretary Antony Blinken made a remark that sounded more like a threat from Washington, saying that Bangladeshi people who meddle in the democratic political process would face visa restrictions, […]

| Lanka Lead News අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදිගේ මෑත කාලීන කයිරෝ සංචාරයේ ආලෝක රශ්මිය උපයෝග කර ගනිමින් ඉන්දියාව මැදපෙරදිග කළාපයේ ඉටුකරන භූමිකාව ඉහළ නංවන විට, ඊජිප්තුව සමඟ සබඳතා පුළුල් කරන විට, ඊශ්‍රායලය සහ ගල්ෆ් කලාපයේ අරාබි රටවල් මෙන්ම තුර්කිය සහ ඉරානය සමඟ සහයෝගීතාව තීව්‍ර කරන කරන විට, සාම්ප්‍රදායිකව කලාපයේ ප්‍රමුඛ බලවතා වන එක්සත් ජනපදය ඉන්දියාවේ උපායමාර්ගය […]

Dr. Ibrahim Islam The burning of the Qur’an in Sweden has sharply heightened tensions throughout the world with Turkey at its forefront aggressive approach, expressing its strict condemnation over this unethical and heinous act against the holy Quran. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on our holy book. Permitting this anti-Islam […]

HANS VOGEL Courtesy The Unz Review Following in the footsteps of her illustrious predecessor Josef Goebbels, Mrs. Ursula Von der Leyen, unelected president of the Fourth Reich” has imposed censorship. In the endless wisdom of her little brain, Mrs. Von der Leyen has decided that the inhabitants of the EU who survived or escaped the […]

HANS VOGEL Courtesy The Unz Review No longer is it a matter of speculation whether or not the West” is in free fall. It clearly is, and it is clearly intentional. The Great Covid Show, brought to you by the usual suspects, seems to have created the right conditions for the Great Reset.” There were […]

Courtesy Adaderana The de-dollarisation, the movement to reduce other countries’ reliance on the greenback, among the emerging economies of the BRICS economic group is yet to reach a ‘common currency’ breakthrough. The de-dollarisation movement, however, is currently morphing into a growing number of countries ditching the dollar and choosing to trade in their own currencies […]

Tilottama Rani Charulata. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have built a new history of bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh. Both countries have undertaken a number of successful programs for the development of their countrymen. India granted a record number of visas last year in compliance with Bangladesh’s long-standing demand. Appropriate […]

Courtesy GB News US president Joe Biden has pushed to make Ursula von der Leyen Nato’s secretary general after Britain revealed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s without his approval. The role is up for grabs until Autumn 2024 when Jens Stoltenberg, who has been secretary general since October 2014, steps down as head […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Neoliberalism is often misunderstood, but it is very important to understand this ideology that has dominated global economics and politics for decades. Ben Norton discusses the history of the neoliberal “Washington consensus”, and how it was imposed on the world. How China became the world’s industrial superpower – and why the US […]

MICHAEL HUDSON Courtesy The Unz Review Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror War is too important to be left to the generals. This quote is as relevant today as it was in the early 19th century, when French statesman and journalist Georges Clemenceau first said it to stress the importance of civilian control over the military and the war. If this is so with […]

Courtesy The Telegraph Vladimir Putin said blackmail attempts” were doomed to failure” in an angry address after an aborted mutiny by Wagner mercenary fighters over the weekend.  The Russian President claimed the mutineers wanted Russians to fight each other” but had badly miscalculated” as he thanked those who had stood down to avoid bloodshed. Mr Putin […]

Jubeda Chowdhury , freelance columnist, researcher in Dhaka city Economic sanctions, Visa restrictions, political embargo are the part of US coercive diplomacy.  These are not a modern development. These first recorded use was in ancient Greece. But despite all the evidence since then showing they are generally ineffective and often counterproductive; the United States has […]