A time bomb is ticking away in the Persian Gulf while bellicose statements issued from Tehran and Washington are causing global concern of an immediate armed conflict in the Gulf. In Washington last week James Clapper US Director of National Intelligence told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that some Iranian officials probably including Supreme Leader [...]
After three torrid years as president in the White House, Barrack Obama would have been much relieved at the news he received some weeks ago before he made his State of the Union speech which was the kick off for the presidential election campaign in November. The Sword of Damocles that hung over his head, [...]
Pakistan was slowly being drawn into a military-judicial coup as the weekend drew near with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani having been summoned before the Supreme Court and Contempt of Court proceedings being initiated against him following his refusal to follow court orders to re- open money laundering and corruption cases against Pakistani President Asif Zardari [...]
Fearsome war clouds gathered over the Persian Gulf last week as Iran going through its War Games warned American warships to keep off the Gulf and Americans defied the order while heated rhetoric continued into the weekend. The mere threat of war in the Persian Gulf resulted in international prices of oil to hiccup. But [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon The year 2011 would no doubt go down in history as the year where people around the world took to the streets against dictators, self proclaimed messiahs of nations, strongmen and con-men refusing to accept the bilge that they have been served with by propagandists and realised the plain truth. It started [...]
The Time Magazine named ‘The Protestor’ as the Man of the Year – the symbolic person among the millions – who came on to the streets in 2011 defying and overthrowing dictators – who had ruled their countries for decades at the point of a gun – with unarmed demonstrations. Such demonstrations spread from the [...]
When US and allied forces made invading Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein retreat out of Kuwait which Iraq had invaded in 1990 there was much speculation on why the American led forces stopped at the borders of Iraq and not trail the Iraqi dictator to Baghdad and see his end. Saddam Hussein was seen as [...]
The Arab Spring has provided a rosy and pleasing scenario to most Western commentators. This new ‘revolution’ did not result in the emergence of fiery anti- western dictators— from like revolutions in the Middle East like in the sixties— such as Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Mohammed [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi, the frail 69-year –old woman stands as a beacon of leadership to present day leaders of South and even South East Asia bickering and jostling for power. She has spent a 15 years of her last 2I years incarcerated by the military junta. She has undergone great privation fighting for her [...]
The participation of american Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Scher in the recent Galle Dialogue sponsored by the Sri Lankan navy may have left many observers wondering about American participation in a dialogue with Sri Lankan defence officials— some of whom are still being accused of war crimes—- and whether the Rajapakse policy of [...]
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