Tension continued to mount in the Middle East over the week as speculation continued over a possible strike by Israel on Iran’s nuclear facilities. But three leading world powers—Russia, Britain and the United States— warned Israel last week against any such move which would result in dangerous developments. Nuclear watchdogs despondent Meanwhile hopes of a [...]
Around 5000 to 7000 are reported to have been killed in Syria since the uprising commenced against President Bashar al Assad in March last year and the daily death toll keeps mounting –70 reported killed on Thursday. While most nations now call for ending of violence in Syria and the removal of President Assad from [...]
I have told this story before but I won’t stop and will say it again because it is about a remarkable young man Mohamed Nasheed whom I met in the late 1980s, who rose to be the first democratically elected president of the Maldives and was ousted in a coup d’etat last week. At the [...]
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 [...]
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