Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 12:46 pm
Opinion

US toppling of Imran Khan

A PRINCIPAL instrument of US foreign policy is covert regime change, meaning a secret action by the US government to bring down the government of another country. There are strong

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Rise and fall of nationalism in Lankan north, south

THE election of Sivagnanam Shritharan as president of the ITAK has the potential to bring Tamil nationalism to the fore again. The ITAK is the largest Tamil political party and

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Solving climate change, or else

IN DECEMBER, the New York Times reported that ‘Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000.’ (Though it’s not the

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Costly failures of intelligence

‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.’ — Yogi Berra   THE investment in intelligence collection and analysis continues to grow, and the failures of intelligence grow as

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Legal bullying to silence campus critics of Israel

A SAD fact of jurisprudence in an unequal world is that good laws created to promote justice are often used perversely by the powerful to thwart justice. Title VI of

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The rise of counter middle class?

ONCE most, if not all, thought of the middle class as a single monolithic social economic construct. This was particularly so during the period from 1947 to 1971. It was

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Historical roots of Israel’s purge-purify strategy

Historical incentive to purge IN THE 16th century, the Catholic Church claimed to be the one true form of Christianity. Centred in Rome, it had ideologically created a largely unified

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Origins of the communal divide

POWER that be deny it exists, extremists on both sides justify it, moderates lament it, yet, this festering social disease goes on spewing blood and hatred, not confined to the

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Even ‘dummies’ term election unacceptable

WHEN the Awami League is in a self-congratulatory mood, indulging in complacence over its success in pulling off the 12th national elections, not even its own members and associates see

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Decoding Iran’s missile and drone strikes

AFTER stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours, Tehran then took the extraordinary step of claiming responsibility

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