Later this year, America will celebrate (!) the 10-year anniversary of Afghanistan’s liberation from the Taleban. After the initial success, this venture has been on a continuous downward path to eventual failure. President Obama has announced America’s disengagement from Afghanistan, a process that might take a couple of years. What America leaves behind will haunt…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
This week Michael Green and Daniel Twining wrote an opinion article in the Washington Post titled Why aren’t we working with Japan and India? It is an attempt to discuss the reasons for, what they call, the current “listlessness in our two biggest strategic partnerships in Asia.” This is a serious article but deeply flawed….
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Editor’s Note: The quotes and the data used below come from an extraordinary book titled “Churchill’s Secret War“, a meticulously researched and extensively referenced book. But the opinions and the journey of thought described below are all Ours. Neither the book nor the author are responsible for our analysis or opinions. The title seems ludicrous…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Editor’s Note: Last week, we wrote our first article about “Churchill’s Secret War” by Madhusree Mukerjee. It is an extraordinary book, extraordinary in its dispassionate analysis, extraordinary in its research, extraordinary in its importance to people of Indian origin worldwide and finally extraordinary in the secular problems it suggests for the Global Media organizations that…
Since the very beginning of our coverage of Af-Pak (August 9, 2008), we have argued that the conflict in Af-Pak is essentially a struggle of the Pakhtun against the Pakistani-Panjabi occupation of their land. The current conflict has its roots in the 1893 Durand Treaty that partitioned Afghanistan into North Afghanistan (today’s Afghanistan) & South…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Editor’s Note: We have come to realize that the American Media Establishment is almost entirely European in its framework, its orientation, its education and its sympathies. We have also bemoaned the utter lack of knowledge among “educated” Indians about Indian history in general and about the history of various Indian States, linguistic and ethnic communities….