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 […]

Courtesy The New Arab Dramatic events started to unfold in Russia on Friday, as the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a mutiny against Russia’s military leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin faced the most serious challenge to his long rule on Saturday when the leader of the Wagner mercenary group vowed to topple Moscow’s military leadership. Yevgeny Prigozhin, […]

Courtesy The New Arab Three thousand elite Chechen troops took up positions in Moscow early on Saturday morning to defend the Russian capital against advancing mutineers from the Wagner mercenary group, the Chechen state broadcaster “Grozny” said on Saturday night. “The fighters have been at their positions in Moscow since early morning and are ready to carry […]

By Zorawar Daulet Singh and posted on Money Control, June 3, 2023.Courtesy New Cold War Fifteen months into the biggest land war in Eurasia since the Second World War, the tables have turned. US and NATO began with a confidence that a proxy war was the only way to roll back Russian influence in Europe. It was aimed […]

Mehjabin Bhanu  Bangladesh India’s efforts in recent years to establish greater energy connectivity with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka have been successful. India, Nepal and Bangladesh have finalized the draft of the Trilateral Power Trade Agreement. It is Delhi’s efforts to create more energy connectivity with neighboring countries. The agreement, the first of its […]

Gregor Link Courtesy wsws.org The war in Ukraine is also a battle for raw materials. The country has large deposits of iron, titanium and lithium, some of which are now controlled by Russia.” That’s what the federally owned German foreign trade agency Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI) reported on its website on January 16 under […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Ben Norton discusses the rise and fall of US-led neocolonial financial order, from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that established the US dollar as the global reserve currency; to the 1971 Nixon Shock that ended the gold standard, Volcker Shock, Third World debt crisis, and emergence of neoliberalism; and finally to the […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka  Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty. Words are considered as fundamental rights for individuals, nations and countries in various ways. Obtaining these rights is an absolute honor, through which a sense of self-esteem is created. And self-respect establishes the identity of a person, a nation and a country. Bangladesh […]

Nandita Roy Who is the busiest diplomat in Bangladesh at the moment? No one can answer this without thinking. The US Ambassador Peter D. Hass is currently the busiest diplomat in Bangladesh. Not only among diplomats, he has come to the center of politics in Bangladesh. He is making headlines every day. His busy schedule, […]

Indrajit Kumar Why at this time, the issue of the letter of 6 US congressmen  is very inappropriate and illogical, when US President Joe Biden himself, in a letter to PM Sheikh Hasina, has praised Bangladesh’s role in global peacekeeping recently and Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been playing an important role in UN peacekeeping operations for […]

John Rozario Karnataka, India Bangladesh and Myanmar are moving forward with the Rohingya repatriation plan a pilot project. However, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has taken a stand against repatriation in Myanmar’s current situation. And as part of this, the organization stopped the food aid of 23 Rohingya families of four who […]