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1 month ago | 
fpif.org | Tarique Niazi |John Feffer
On March 11, an armed band of 100 militants hijacked a passenger train in Pakistan, which had around 500 travelers on board. The train was bound for Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Kyber Pakhtunkhwa on the border with Afghanistan. The train was barely three hours out of Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan, when a bomb hidden under the train tracks detonated and blew it off the rails.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Tarique Niazi
The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow under the cover of night last month. At first glance, drought or its driver in climate change seems to have little to do with a geopolitical event like the fall of the Assad regime.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
eurasiareview.com | Tarique Niazi
The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow under the cover of night last month. At first glance, drought or its driver in climate change seems to have little to do with a geopolitical event like the fall of the Assad regime.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
fpif.org | Tarique Niazi |John Feffer
The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow under the cover of night last month. At first glance, drought or its driver in climate change seems to have little to do with a geopolitical event like the fall of the Assad regime.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
fpif.org | Tarique Niazi
The UN Climate Summit (COP29), held in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month, apparently lived up to its moniker: “The Finance COP.” Two weeks of semantic quibbling finally yielded an agreement that would triple climate finance to $300 billion a year by 2035. Developing countries were calling for $1.3 trillion instead, which would have been more than four times the amount agreed.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
globalpolicyjournal.com | Tarique Niazi
For decades, the publishing industry has been churning out books instructing the world how to smooth the rough edges of capitalism, and make it work for everyone. Since the onset of the environmental movement, there has been a particular glut of publications sublimating capitalism into a green gospel. It, however, has been seldom that an accomplished business professor pens a tome that burns with a trenchant critique of capitalism, and an urgent call for its just and sustainable version.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
fpif.org | Tarique Niazi |John Feffer
The U.S. presidential election is looming large over the UN Climate summit (COP29) that is due to meet in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11-22. For now, John Podesta, senior advisor on international climate policy, will lead the U.S. delegation at the summit. It is hard to predict if the United States will have its climate envoy by the time COP30 rolls around. The U.S. election is not the only puzzle for the summit. More worryingly, COP29 is divided over its very self-professed goal: climate finance.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
fpif.org | Tarique Niazi |John Feffer
Stung by neoliberal austerity, which triggered economic meltdown in 2022, Sri Lanka has turned to a progressive leader to help forge its path back to economic recovery. Popularly known by his initials AKD, Anura Kumara Dissanayake has long been the leading light of the left in Sri Lanka. He was the presidential candidate of the National People’s Power (NPP), an alliance that he built and of which the People’s Liberation Front (PLF) that he leads is the key member.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Soumyanetra Munshi |Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi
Recently on September 20 the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she stated that at least seven districts in Bengal are facing floods because of the “unprecedented, unplanned and unilateral” release of around 500,000 cusecs of water from the DVC’s Maithon and Panchet dams. This letter stated that such a huge quantum of discharge from the DVC system had never happened in the past.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi |Robert Campion
In an idyllic three-storey house, nestled amongst a rich garden of all kinds of flowers and fruit trees, playing host to most of the birds, insects and even monkeys, Samarpita, staying alone in her ancestral house, was going about her usual morning chores on Wednesday morning when water began to flow in and flood her garden, and the ground floor.
