Tag: Russia
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No Day Shall Erase You: Unknown Stories of September 11 2001 Attacks
was a watershed moment in the history of the world.
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Human Rights Tossed? UN elects Russia, China for Human Rights Council
This membership can be easily leveraged by the two nations to justify the impeachment of human rights in their own respective countries. What’s laughable is that Russia and China are both communist countries who see human rights as a threat to their existence. This decision obviously brings the UN Human Rights Council’s credibility at stake.
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Why Osama bin Laden was a bigger catch for the United States than Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Two self-styled terrorists, one brought the war to the United States on the American soil while the other dragged the United States to a foreign land. Both killed for having messed up with the United States yet, Osama Bin-Laden remains the biggest catch. President Donald Trump claimed in his address to the American public after…
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Why the Prophet Muhammad and Islam will not accept Abu Baker Al-Baghdadi’s ISIS “Caliphate”
A man meditating alone in a cave near Mecca received a religious vision. The vision that laid the foundation for a new religion. The year was 610 AD and the man was Muhammad. The belief in him of his followers gave birth to one of the most widely practiced religions: Islam The vision sets religion…
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The Tashkent Mystery: Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Death and the Subhas Chandra Bose Angle
India, in the 1960s just 13 years into its independence was beamingly looking at its future-global partners and strategic allies that would help her hold its land against adversaries like China and Pakistan. Lal Bahadur Shastri took the top seat in the Parliament in 1965. He was a dynamic leader, having grown in the…
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The Moon: Dreams of A Young Nation
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars”, some of these brightest stars sat in the control room of Satish Dhawan Space Centre while they made history for their fellow country people and the entire mankind. It was for the first time that a country as young as India had ambitions to soft-land on…
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Putin’s Russia and the Ghost of the Romanovs
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, the Romanovs, were murdered 100 years ago on July 17, 1917, by Marxist revolutionaries. What does this anniversary mean for Vladimir Putin? Revolution came to Russia in February 1917, a month later in March the king of the Russian Empire Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. With the revolution in many…
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The Cost of Lies: Why Chernobyl is the symbol of failed Soviet Union
“The official position of the state is that global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union.” & “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.” It is gripping, it shocks you, it makes you rethink the cost of living, but it just scratches the…
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Yemen Endures: Saudi and Iran’s Proxy War in ‘The Happy Land’
A Rebel Group Backed By Iran, A Government Backed By Saudi Arabia, A President Struggling to Survive…. all this at the cost of human lives In Yemen. Before we talk about the ongoing Yemen civil war, in which 65,000 lives have been lost since 2015, it is imperative to understand the difference between a war…
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Who’s Children Are They Anyway: Kurds Divided Over Children Born of Islamic State Rape
Children of women raped by ISIL men will not be accepted into Yazidi community, declares the sect’s faith leaders. Kurdish leaders claim that the war with IS (Islamic State) is over, but is it? Although, IS has left the Kurdish area but has left behind a conflict for Yazidi women. The Supreme Yazidi Spiritual…
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