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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Nafees Ahmad |Ranjan Solomon |Sanjeev Sirohi |John Donohue
In the US, two males were accused of breaking into the morgue at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills on September 19, 1995, and having sex with two female corpses. Police declared the two guys were being detained on suspicion of burglary the next day. Police said that because it is lawful in California to have sex with a body, the two males were not prosecuted for having intercourse with a corpse.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
fairobserver.com | Nafees Ahmad
In early April 2024, journalists from the Reuters news agency saw a document regarding the then-upcoming November G20 Summit. According to the document, Brazil would urge the Summit to grant heads of state immunity from prosecution before an international criminal tribunal, particularly the International Criminal Court (ICC), provided that their nations are not parties to the international treaty that created the court.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
moderndiplomacy.eu | Nafees Ahmad
South Asia is an area with a compendium of paradoxes and distinctive characteristics. It has a shared cultural foundation but differs in language and religion, making it culturally, socially, economically, and politically varied. Throughout the 20th century, democracy has gained acceptance among the general public and ruling elites. However, in the 21st century, there are also questions regarding its viability.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Syed Ali |P S Sahni |Nafees Ahmad |Bharat Dogra
The concept of the “Clash of Civilizations,” introduced by Samuel Huntington in the early 1990s, has shaped global political discourse, casting cultural and religious identities as primary sources of conflict. Huntington’s thesis argued that, in a post-Cold War world, civilization-level cultural differences—especially between Islam and the West—would become central to global conflicts.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
fairobserver.com | Nafees Ahmad
Observers are increasingly sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence-driven military decision-making systems (AIMDS). AIMDS are instruments that employ AI methods to evaluate data, offer practical suggestions and help decision-makers resolve semi-structured and unstructured military tasks.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham |Nafees Ahmad |Pranjal Pandey
In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had ignored wider geopolitical developments that may contribute to such a dawn given the globally networked nature of Sri Lanka’s ‘poly crisis’.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham |Nafees Ahmad |Pranjal Pandey
In the run up to elections President Ranil Wickramasinghe has portrayed his government’s Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) with the International Monetary Fund as a panacea for Sri Lanka’s globally networked ‘polycrisis’. Minister of Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, meanwhile, claimed that ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to the lender of last resorts, the IMF. Amending the agreement as called for by some opposition parties would cause heavy losses to the country and amount to ‘suicide’ he noted.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | P S Sahni |Nafees Ahmad |Mubashir Vp |Mohd Khan
Islamophobia, the irrational fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims, has deep historical roots. One significant factor is Orientalism, a body of Western thought that has long portrayed the Islamic world as fundamentally different, inferior, and even threatening. This essay explores how Orientalist ideas have shaped Western perceptions of Islam, contributing to its rise in the modern world.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
fairobserver.com | Nafees Ahmad
The most critical problem of today is disaster-driven human displacement (DHD) caused by the climate. Climate change catastrophically impacts every place on Earth. It exacerbates the degradation of ecosystems, natural catastrophes, harsh weather, rising sea levels, droughts, the spread of disease, land grabs, human displacement and climate conflict.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Ravi Kumar |Nafees Ahmad
, but Israel’s war against Hamas in Palestine has taken to an altogether different level. It has aimed at physically decimating journalists, which is different from attacks on journalism by different powers. A sense of fear is being instilled by States across the globe. Journalists are being told not to report on issues such as the Palestinian conflict. As a result, journalism declines in quality, and civil society and democracies become less robust.
