Two individuals who unquestionably dominated the 2013 agenda were Nelson Mandela and Edward Snowden. Their treatment in the media could hardly have been more different. Yet, in many respects what they share is remarkable, and the fact that they (...)
US President Barack Obama is on a diplomatic offensive on several fronts in the Middle East. The six-month interim agreement between the major world powers, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the European Union, and Iran to (...)
Unlike Gandhi or Mandela, US President Barack Obama has not used power to curb power, being more interested in extending it, says Deepak Tripathi*
First the video of United States marines urinating on the bodies of dead Afghans. Then the revelation (...)
Ruthlessly pursuing its Middle East grand strategy come hell or high water risks another terrorist tsunami, warns Deepak Tripathi
Popular uprisings that began with peaceful protests in Tunisia and Egypt nearly a year ago, and spread across the Arab (...)
All conquerors hurt the conquered morally as well as physically and must face the consquences, says Deepak Tripathi
Never underestimate the cost of humiliation. In war victory is never clean, because it empowers the vanquished, or their successors, (...)
The Afghanistan War Diary, released by Wikileaks, has exposed as never before a culture of lies, deceit, violence and manipulation of information in the current United States-led war in that country, writes Deepak Tripathi*
The volume, more than (...)
Unlike during the Cold War, in the new century the United States has had no superpower rival, giving it overwhelming destructive power, writes Deepak Tripathi*
The inaugural decade of the new century will be remembered for two phenomena above all: (...)