Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 14 – February 20)

Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…

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The Ignatius Opinion – A Virtual Blueprint of Convenient, Myopic & Wrong Analysis about Af-Pak

David Ignatius, an Op-Ed Columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote an article titled A new thaw between India and Pakistan. Mr. Ignatius is a respected columnist with deep contacts. He is an intelligent man and he tries to be analytical as well as dispassionate, in our opinion. Unfortunately, intelligence goes astray without adequate knowledge…

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Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 7 – February 13)

Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…

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Obama-Bush – Are Their Global Frames of Reference Converging?

Since its independence in 1776,  the singular focus of America has been Europe. America understands Europe. The greatest foreign policy successes of America have been in Europe. President George W. Bush turned the focus of America from Europe towards the new emerging centers of power. This shift began during his transition period in 2000 under the leadership of Wolfowitz. The events of 9/11 accelerated…

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US DoD 2010 Quadrennial Review & Macro Viewpoints Commentary of September 2008

In September 2008, we wrote a detailed article about the USA-India Strategic Partnership  that was launched by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister ManMohan Singh.  In the first section of this article, we discussed a security partnership in the Indian Ocean between India & America: America has always been the pre-dominant Pacific power. Remember, it was Japan…

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Difference Between a “Real” Indian and an “Elite” Indian – Read the Interview of the Viacom-Network 18 COO & the WSJ India Editor

We first discussed India’s “Colors” Network in our August 2009 article about Fox Business & CNBC . This network  began as a startup in July 2008. It exploded through India’s cluttered media space to become the No. 1 rated entertainment network in a short span of time. We heard Viacom’s CEO Philippe Dauman rave about the success of Colors during his interview…

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Step Into India’s No-Holds-Barred Television News World – Watch the Riveting “RANN”

We were in Mumbai during the horrific attack by Pakistani terrorists in November 2008.  Watching Indian TV News  during those days was an amazing experience.  Every TV network went into competitive overdrive to show every part of the commando operation against terrorists holed up in the hotels. We saw live footage of commandos landing on the roof of buildings. The terrorists…

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