Will the US and UK's support for Israel backfire?
There are growing signs of substantial public disaffection in these two nations which have been conspicuous in refusing to take Israel to task for its slaughter.
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Putin’s interview and the West’s extraordinary outrage
The media’s job to interview geopolitical adversaries.
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Trump’s impunity and the Republican Party meltdown
Trump is more a symptom rather than the cause of the current political crisis in the US.
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Why did the US almost shut down?
I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?
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The mugshot and the meltdown: Trump and US politics
The Republican problem is now a US problem.
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Tucker Carlson and the murky state of US media
Tucker Carlson, the recently fired US cable television talk show host at Fox News, was quite a force to be reckoned with. Until, he was fired.
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Trump’s arrest adds fuel to fire in hyperpolarised US
Republicans are locked in a Faustian embrace with Trump, and the arrest is likely to make that embrace tighter.
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The deadly, murky history of the rules-based order
This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.
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March 5, 2024
Will the US and UK's support for Israel backfire?
There are growing signs of substantial public disaffection in these two nations which have been conspicuous in refusing to take Israel to task for its slaughter.
February 13, 2024
Putin’s interview and the West’s extraordinary outrage
The media’s job to interview geopolitical adversaries.
February 5, 2024
Trump’s impunity and the Republican Party meltdown
Trump is more a symptom rather than the cause of the current political crisis in the US.
October 5, 2023
Why did the US almost shut down?
I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?
August 29, 2023
The mugshot and the meltdown: Trump and US politics
The Republican problem is now a US problem.
May 7, 2023
Tucker Carlson and the murky state of US media
Tucker Carlson, the recently fired US cable television talk show host at Fox News, was quite a force to be reckoned with. Until, he was fired.
April 8, 2023
Trump’s arrest adds fuel to fire in hyperpolarised US
Republicans are locked in a Faustian embrace with Trump, and the arrest is likely to make that embrace tighter.
March 30, 2023
The deadly, murky history of the rules-based order
This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.
March 6, 2023
Lit Fest and Boi Mela: A linguistic, cultural apartheid?
Both the Dhaka Lit Fest and Ekushey Boi Mela offer sobering insights into the underlying socioeconomic challenges that have hamstrung Bangla publishing.
May 7, 2022
Does the world really have the West’s back on Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine has spawned a mindless Russophobic war hysteria in the West that is appalling. It reminds me of my days in the US during the Iraq war. As Yogi Berra said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”
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