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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Steve Ellner |M K Bhadrakumar |Thomas Klikauer |Tom Engelhardt
During his first term, President Donald Trump exerted a “maximum pressure” campaign against perceived U.S. adversaries in Latin America and elsewhere.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Thomas Klikauer |Tom Engelhardt |Gideon Polya
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to dismantle the Department of Education isn’t just a headline—it’s a political warning shot. Framed as a push to “return power to the states,” Trump’s March 21 directive demands the department take “all necessary steps” to wind itself down. His administration argues the department is bloated with bureaucracy, fueled by liberal ideology, and ultimately responsible for declining academic outcomes. But the implications go far deeper than red tape.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Thomas Klikauer |Tom Engelhardt |Gideon Polya
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US attacks began on Saturday and continued into Sunday on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas reportedly killing 31 people and wounding 101 so far, most of them children and women.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Thomas Klikauer |M K Bhadrakumar |Tom Engelhardt |Gideon Polya
With Donald, the Terrible back in power, diplomatic relations between the USA and the EU are set to be in stormy waters. Europeans, as well as the whole world, know that the last Trump presidency was marked by confusions and frustrations as his reign ended badly, if not deadly. And now, the European Union plus others like the UK are facing Trump 2.0Tellingly, Trump’s hyper-televised inauguration show has excluded many of those worshipping their messiah.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Medea Benjamin |Binoy Kampmark |M K Bhadrakumar
Due to a number of circumstances the prospects of ending the Ukraine war very soon appear to have brightened rather suddenly. This moment should be seized. Once lost it may not appear soon again. There are powerful interests who may try to sabotage these peace prospects. Hence great care should be exercised to ensure that this opportunity for peace should not be lost and peace should be clinched as early as possible without further delay. The Ukraine war has been a very costly war.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Medea Benjamin |M K Bhadrakumar |Norman Solomon
Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” (1919)There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets. There was Herman Van Rompuy in April 2010 who, when President of the European Council, imposed an anthology of haiku poetry unimaginatively titled Haiku on family members, friends, dignitaries and members of the press. Japanese diplomats were predictably diplomatic in their reception.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
deccanherald.com | M K Bhadrakumar
India needs to be in Trump’s ‘A’ teamThere is no question that New Delhi urgently needs to build bridges with Trump, whose imprimatur on global politics can be decisive, which will also overlap a transformative phase in the world order
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Medea Benjamin |M K Bhadrakumar |Norman Solomon |Bharat Dogra
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. DaviesPresident-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. He said “Putin wants to meet,” because “we have to get that war over with.” So what are the chances that a new administration in Washington can break the deadlock and finally bring peace to Ukraine? During both of his election campaigns, Trump said he wanted to end the wars the U.S. was involved in.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
rediff.com | M K Bhadrakumar
... and there is no stopping its pan-Islamic agenda, cautions Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Women shoot a damaged picture of Bashar al-Assad in Qamishli, Syria, December 8, 2024 after he fled the country. Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | M K Bhadrakumar
December 8, 2024Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood is that he is in Russia. At any rate, a rollback of the Islamist takeover in Syria is out of the question.
