https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/pakistan-saudi-arabia-rift-widens-after-oic-foreign-ministers-summit/amp_articleshow/88479783.cms The Economic Times dt. 24 December 2021 I read the above article with great interest since, after having lived and worked 25 years of my professional career in Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and travelled all across the Middle-East, I am familiar with the history and politics of its peoples and can relateContinue reading “The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear””
Category Archives: Geo-Political
Coveters, Producers and Consumers in the great Geo-political war of the 21st century
Each box-cell in the above Infograph carries the chemical symbol for key minerals that are found deep inside the geological bowels of our planet earth. They are mined, exported and get consumed for various industrial purposes and in various manufacturing processes by countries around the world. Who produces the minerals most? China does… and willContinue reading “Coveters, Producers and Consumers in the great Geo-political war of the 21st century”
The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …
The Top 100 Companies of the World: The U.S. vs Everyone Else The USA is still by far the fattest capitalist-pig in the world …. miles ahead of the rest of the pigs … proving clearly the famous Orwellian truth that “All Pigs are equal but some Pigs are more equal”. All the world’s anContinue reading “The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …”
Boris is an “English shopkeeper” … but Modi is no Emperor Shah Jahan, is he?
These are words of syrupy ingratiation …. Not true or heartfelt words of praise … Boris is simply angling for good terms for a new long term Trade Deal with India … which is currently work-in-progress and under tortuous negotiations between the Governments. Do not ever forget, O my Indian brethren, that the East IndiaContinue reading “Boris is an “English shopkeeper” … but Modi is no Emperor Shah Jahan, is he?”
“The Desert will become a Garden”: The PhD of Optics Vs the Master
Pope John Paul II said this during his visit to India in 1999: “…. we can pray that in the third Christian millennium a great harvest of faith will be reaped in this vast and vital continent…” Yesterday October 31 , 2021 , Pope Frances receiving PM of India Narendra Modi in the Vatican, reciprocatedContinue reading ““The Desert will become a Garden”: The PhD of Optics Vs the Master”
May the World Health Organization (WHO) be damned !
Currently, India’s own Covid vaccine COVAXIN after 3-stage trial is still awaiting approval/licensing by the WHO … it’s taken 110 weeks ! The same WHO approved Pfizer, Moderna and Sinovac vaccines in about 8 weeks ! The delay in WHO approving Covaxin seems to be deliberate attempt to malign Indian medical R&D … otherwise whyContinue reading “May the World Health Organization (WHO) be damned !”
The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another
What the Infographic tells me is this: 1. All the pompous geopolitical and Geo-strategic punditry we hear and read these days from think-tanks and international-relations policy-experts about the world becoming “multipolar” is plain bunkum and politically correct eyewash meant to pull wool over the eyes of the rest of the world … make no mistakeContinue reading “The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another”
“To live with each other is to die together…”
If Russia didn’t pipe the warmth drawn out from beneath its deep soil , European homesteads would shiver in the Cold. When I look at this chart, I am able to visualise at once on a panoramic mental screen the 500+ years of European History that came before and went after the reign of theContinue reading ““To live with each other is to die together…””
BRITAIN after BREXIT: a nation putting sanctions on itself. But sadly … still just getting started: A lesson for all Indian Separatists who yearn for “Indiexit…”
I wish “INDIEXITeering” think-tanks, ideologues, Urban and Rural Naxal or Maoist radicals and Separatists across India in Kashmir, Tamil Nadu , Punjab, Kerala and West Bengal who as closet-secessionists keep wishfully dreaming about unfettered “federalism” and “state autonomy” … if not of a Brave New Nation of their own like Azad Kashmir, Khalistan or NaxalistanContinue reading “BRITAIN after BREXIT: a nation putting sanctions on itself. But sadly … still just getting started: A lesson for all Indian Separatists who yearn for “Indiexit…””
America’s single Trillion $ Platinum Coin is its Silver Bullet: Debt deals the kiss of death to Money
Analytical report Axios .com October 3rd 2021 An increasingly vocal chorus of commentators is saying that the U.S. Treasury should #MintTheCoin — issue a small platinum token, give it a face value of $1 trillion, and deposit it at the Federal Reserve. Why it matters: The gambit, if successful, would prevent the potentially catastrophic debt defaultContinue reading “America’s single Trillion $ Platinum Coin is its Silver Bullet: Debt deals the kiss of death to Money”