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Thu, 23 Jan 2025, 02:56 am

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Opinion

And then there was no more empire all of a sudden

EMPIRE denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across the world. However,

Xi’s vision

PRESIDENT Joe Biden of the United States, on a recent visit to Japan as part of his first trip to East Asia after taking office, was most ill-advised in offering

A small bump or a major hurdle?

TODAY, it is clear that the beginning of Russia’s special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on February 24 this year was a landmark moment in the modern stage

Ukraine war’s collateral damage

THE war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and south. Many thousands of soldiers

No way out but war

THE United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed

Interim Lanka govt for reform, not consolidation

THE government’s intention to appoint a full complement of ministers and state ministers, and the jostling for positions amongst them, seems to suggest an attitude of business as usual. This

Problem of renewed credibility of NATO

SO FAR, the greatest of Vladimir Putin’s many failures in the Ukraine war is his aim of seriously weakening the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Far from creating greater disunity between

Ukraine and anti-war dilemma

I HAVE been watching America at war for many years now and, after 9/11, began spending time with American veterans who came to disdain and actively oppose the very conflicts

Sacrificing lives for profit in warming planet

THE World Meteorological Organisation recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and US media, but did not. New WMO research concludes that

Nordic NATO expansion or NATO implosion?

ON MAY 16, 2022, Finland and Sweden decided to become members of NATO. Not only is this totally against the 1991 US/NATO promise to then Russian president Gorbachev, that ‘NATO