Chris Hedges Fan Club John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer was born in December […]

TED RALL  Courtesy The Unz Review Though their number is steadily dropping, especially among Republicans, most Americans support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. I have a question for you pro-Ukraine peeps: Imagine you were Russian President Vladimir Putin just shy of a year ago. What would you have done in his place? Putin faced an impossible […]

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts  Courtesy Global Research After the Russiagate Hoax, the Covid hoax, and the Insurrection hoax, We now Have the Chinese Spy Balloon Hoax According to Washington and the media, China sent a balloon that the Pentagon said could” be loaded with explosives to spy on America.  A top general said that similar balloons have entered […]

Courtesy Teheran Times At times of natural disasters, countries actually set aside differences with the foes and extend a helping humanitarian hand.  But the United States and its Western allies have refused to assist the Syrian government even as it faces one of the worst natural disasters in more than a century. Syria has already […]

acTVism Munich In this episode of The Source, we talk with Professor Emeritus of Economics (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, about the economic impact of the Ukraine war. We assess the impact of Western sanctions on Russia as well as how the war has affected the West economically. Interview […]

Courtesy Star (Kenya) Sri Lankan investors have employed over 20, 000 Kenyans at Export Processing Zone in Athi River Kananathan said Sri Lanka, a country in South Asia, was committed to supporting the Kenyan government in its quest of creating jobs for citizens in a bid of solving the challenge of unemployment in the country. […]

Courtesy Teheran Times This past week for an evening in North Carolina I had the pleasure of speaking briefly with Medea Benjamin and hearing her opine about Ukraine to an audience at a local church. A petite, elegant, straight talking Jewish lady, now 70, who for decades has been at the forefront of trying to […]

Harunur Rasid In the cross-border commerce with Bangladesh, Myanmar has been exporting more than it has been importing, with 8,620.7 tonnes of exports to Bangladesh valued at US$10.733 million between April and October of the fiscal year 2022–2023. The two border checkpoints between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Sittway and Maungtaw, saw a 65 percent increase in […]

Courtesy Teheran Times The war was begun in February 2014 with a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin and continues until now. Putin told the Russian people that he was conducting a special military operation” to denazify” Ukraine and prevent NATO from expanding to Russia’s borders. Many in the West see the war, which many […]

By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News Courtesy The Consortium News Given the duplicitous history of the Minsk Accords, it is unlikely Russia can be diplomatically dissuaded from its military offensive. As such, 2023 appears to be shaping up as a year of continued violent confrontation. After almost a year of dramatic action, where initial Russian advances were […]

PHILIP GIRALDI  Courtesy The Unz Review US and Israel will prevent the sale of Iranian drones to Russia In spite of an overwhelming flood of disinformation coming from the Western mainstream media and governments, there continue to be obviously widely divergent views on the current war between Ukraine and Russia. The official and media supported […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in the diplomatic community against the backdrop of […]

By Jeremy Kuzmarov  Courtesy Global Research Says the U.S. and NATO triggered the conflict and are making Europeans suffer Pierre de Gaulle, a grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. is making Europeans suffer by fueling the Ukraine conflict and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia. A corporate consultant and bank manager, […]

Empire Files Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants. Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it came to cover so much land since. From […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – a Bangladeshi teacher, columnist and writer. In recent times, the USA is very interested in further strengthening bilateral relations. Bangladesh also intends to deepen and enhance its ties with the US. Analysts say that the US wants a holistic relationship with Bangladesh beyond bilateral ties. US President Joe Biden expressed optimism about […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka The United States of America (USA) is popularly known as the ‘Champion of Democracy and Human Rights’. But since the last two decades, in its journey towards a multicultural society, the USA is facing a lot of human rights issues domestically such as hate crimes, structural racism, […]

MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review For decades, the idea of dismantling the Soviet Union and Russia has been constantly cultivated in Western countries. Unfortunately, at some point, the idea of using Ukraine to achieve this goal was conceived. In fact, to prevent such a development, we launched the special military operation (SMO). This is […]

India In Details Did the British ‘civilize’ India? Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) talks about the British leaving behind ‘an entire civilization’ in India, and how according to him, Indians, till today, haven’t been able to build even a single building as beautiful as the Bombay train station. Karolina Goswami responds. ============= Please consider supporting […]

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Courtesy Telesur Sanctions force people to prolong the use of older vehicles that burn fuel less efficiently, while making it impossible for Iran to obtain equipment and technology to reduce emissions. With the arrival of the cold season, the air pollution in Iran’s capital Tehran has reached an alarming level and is hazardous for the […]

By Drago Bosnic  Global Research,  In recent decades, one of the political West’s favorite strategies have been the so-called decapitation strikes” against various countries or non-state actors. One of the first examples of this happened in the 1990s in Europe, during the US aggression against Yugoslavia. At the time, NATO forces directly targeted the Serb/Yugoslav leader Slobodan […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka Newly appointed Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday evening (December 28). He will replace outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming as the 16th ambassador of China to Bangladesh. Chinese embassy in Dhaka said Yao expressed his great pleasure to come […]

MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that’s what’s coming.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor (9:35 minute) Strictly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet.” Vladimir Putin The war in Ukraine is not […]

MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review Getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia. We didn’t get it at the time. (But) Now it’s obvious. Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn’t want Ukraine to join NATO. Putin certainly had other motives as well; people always do, but that’s the main reason Russia […]

Samina Akhter Dhaka, Bangladesh According to the Government-to-Government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 150,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce.Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.According to this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to buy 250,000 […]

Ishtiak Fardin The Bengali saying “fish and rice” is true in its true sense, Bengalis have a long relationship with fish and rice. Bengalis have been eating fish since ancient times. The reason for the close relationship between rice and fish is that rice is the staple food of Bengalis and fish is a favorite […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO’s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians […]

Courtesy Mainichi Japan NAGOYA — The Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office’s decision not to indict 13 officials at a regional immigration bureau, including the bureau chief, over the death of a Sri Lankan woman was unjust, a citizens’ panel reviewing prosecutors’ judgments here announced on Dec. 26. In response to the Nagoya No. 1 Committee […]

By Stephen Sefton Since its inception, the leaders of the ALBA countries have denounced North American and European imperialism’s brutal exploitation and domination and its gangster diplomacy of Do what we want or else…”. In 2004, Comandante Fidel Castro and Comandante Hugo Chávez founded what is now the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of America, ALBA […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review The primary purpose of the Nuclear Posture Review(NPR) is to deceptively rebrand” the offensive use of nuclear weapons as a justifiable act of defense. The new criteria for using these lethal WMD has been deliberately maligned with the clear intention of providing Washington with a green light for their […]