RT | 6 Jan 2016 North Korea has announced it has successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb following an “artificial seismic event” that has likely become the country’s fourth known nuclear test. In a “special and important” announcement at noon, North Korean TV claimed that the country has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test at…
New Eastern Outlook | 21 November 2015 Suu Kyi disenfranchised a million voters before elections, and has declared herself above the constitution afterwards. What about that seems “democratic?” The Western media is portraying Myanmar’s recent elections as historic. One commentator described Myanmar as an “exuberant nation prepared for a new era of democracy and political…
New York Times | 16 Aug 2015 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Hamid Gul, an influential and contentious three-star general who served as the head of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s spy agency, from 1987 to 1989 and was deeply involved in the country’s policy toward neighboring Afghanistan when Soviet troops were withdrawing, died on Saturday in Muree, a…
F. William Engdahl | NEO | 22 July 2015 The dual summits that took place in Russia’s Ufa beginning 9 July were anything but routine. In fact it may be seen by future historians as a signal event that marked the definitive decline of the global hegemony of European civilization including North America. This is…
New Eastern Outlook | 20 June 2015 The Bangkok Post has recently featured an AFP report titled, “Suu Kyi dodges Rohingya issue again,” which claims: In rare comments on Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged caution on granting citizenship to minorities, saying the sensitive issue must be addressed “very, very…
Global Research | 19 June 2015 With tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, war in the Middle East and NATO’s military build-up on Russia’s doorstep, World War III seems like a nightmare scenario coming true. Below are insightful articles on the fragile situations prevailing on every corner of the globe and their possibly disastrous implications. Towards…
Global Research | May 18, 2015 The language never reflects the actual conduct. Deploying weapons to a region in greater numbers is not seen as provocative, even if placing such items in a theatre of operations is bound to get neighbours nervous. This is particularly the case about the US “rebalance” in the Asia-Pacific. “The ongoing…
GWPF | 20 April 2015 China’s President In Pakistan To Cement Huge Coal Power Projects Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to unveil a $46 billion infrastructure spending plan in Pakistan that is a centerpiece of Beijing’s ambitions to open new trade and transport routes across Asia and challenge the U.S. as the dominant regional…
Pakistan Today | 16 April 2015 Confirmed by Khan’s grandson, US declassified documents disclose US killed Khan through Kabul man in quest for Iran’s oil Americans murdered the first elected prime minister of Pakistan through the Afghan government, declassified documents of US State Department disclosed. Like a number of other high-profile killings, the assassination of…
GWPF | 17 April 2015 India To Become Fastest Growing Country, Overtaking China India is set to overtake China as the biggest importer of power-station coal. Indian thermal-coal imports will surpass China’s by 2017 or sooner, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts William Foiles and Andrew Cosgrove said in a report. China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, is…