2023-09-22 19:49
CounterPunch
BY DEEPAK TRIPATHI
The relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy is often discussed in international relations. Diplomats and foreign policy experts… Read More
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2023-07-27 12:03
CounterPunch
BY DEEPAK TRIPATHI
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party in the United Kingdom suffered serious setbacks in three byelections on July 20, 2023… Read More
2021-07-07 09:28
CounterPunch
The recent departure of United States and NATO forces from Bagram Air Base near Kabul is highly significant in advance of the American military pull-out from Afghanistan two… Read More
2019-10-29 13:50
The Citizen
LONDON: On Tuesday, 22 October 2019, Parliament voted twice within half… Read More
2019-08-24 07:50
New York Journal of Books
“In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati has produced an exceptional scholarly work on a highly relevant socio-political phenomenon.”
From Latin America… Read More
2018-06-05 09:48
New York Journal of Books
Since the days of Athenian democracy two and a half millennia ago, the idea of “rule of the people” has acquired many versions. Under the extraordinary… Read More
2018-05-23 12:04
CounterPunch
It is a bloody hot summer in Gaza. And the events surrounding the killings of nearly 60 Palestinians and wounding of more than a thousand by the Israeli army on the day Israel… Read More
2017-12-21 15:59
The Citizen
In 2017, the United Kingdom continued to experience the trauma of the previous year’s referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union. The advisory refer… Read More
2017-11-17 15:04
CounterPunch
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Barely five months after a general election in the United Kingdom, the government of Prime Minister Theresa May looks doomed. It could fall any day, next week… Read More
2017-10-30 16:03
Medium
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” — The Bible
“O You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace.” &md&hell…Read More
2017-06-16 09:09
CounterPunch
The political landscape of the United Kingdom has gone through upheaval in the general election on 8 June 2017, and the country is to begin difficult negotiations to leave the E… Read More
2017-05-20 22:22
British society today has striking parallels with the Victorian (Dickensian) era. More children survived infancy; people lived longer; immigration was substantial, in particular large number… Read More
2017-04-17 22:08
History News Network
In November 2016, Donald Trump swept to the White House making some bewilderingly simplistic promises, which meant keeping out of foreign wars, and concentrating on dism… Read More
2017-03-25 08:56
The Citizen
The rise of the far right in America, Europe and Asia is a powerful phenomenon of recent times.
The United States elections in November 2016, and the referendum on Britain’… Read More
2017-02-21 05:00
CounterPunch
Things are rocky on both sides of the Atlantic. In Washington, Donald Trump’s presidency, barely a month old, has made a chaotic start, and is getting sucked into ever dee… Read More
2017-02-20 12:58
Things are rocky on both sides of the Atlantic. In Washington, Donald Trump’s presidency, barely a month old, has made a chaotic start, and is getting sucked into ever deeper crisis. I… Read More
2016-12-12 15:55
The Citizen
The June referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union, and Donald Trump’s victory in the November 2016 American presidential election, were massive right-w… Read More
2016-11-12 13:46
The Citizen
It is important to remember that although Donald Trump was the Republican nominee in the 2016 United States presidential election, in reality he is an independent billionaire who… Read More
2016-10-22 18:45
The third and final debate (October 19) is over amid more women coming out with revelations of Donald Trump’s sexual transgressions. The final countdown to the 2016 presidential electi… Read More
2016-10-10 18:44
After the first debate that many saw as a victory for the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the second last night (October 9, 2016) was bound to be different. Donald Trump, the Republican… Read More
2016-09-27 18:02
The first of three United States presidential debates (September 26, 2016) between the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, was noteworthy in sev… Read More
2016-09-18 22:12
History News Network
Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who dominated British politics in the 1960s, once said that a week is a long time in politics. The meaning of his famous remark is that pol… Read More
2016-07-26 09:44
CounterPunch
The recent referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union was a people’s revolt which unleashed a series of unintended consequences. The result was unexpec… Read More
2016-06-19 10:55
The Citizen
LONDON: The assassination of Jo Cox, a 41-year-old Labour MP, during a fierce political campaign ahead of the 23rd June referendum to decide whether Britain remains in the Europe… Read More
2016-05-30 09:03
The Citizen
President Barack Obama’s recent commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey has raised some uncomfortable truths about public life.
In a wide-ranging critique… Read More
2016-04-29 10:24
CounterPunch
On his farewell tour, President Barack Obama has stirred the pot ahead of the June referendum in Britain on whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union or… Read More
2016-04-12 14:10
The Citizen
In January 2017, Barack Obama will be handing over the presidency to a successor after eight years in the White House. In the April 2016 issue of The Atlantic Magazine, President… Read More
2016-03-14 15:07
History News Network
A continent away from the presidential primaries in the United States, Britain is in the midst of an acrimonious campaign ahead of a referendum to be held on June 23 thi… Read More
2016-01-18 00:02
History News Network
The season of festivities is over, and, once more, the year 2016 begins with warning signs. History is an unquestionable pattern of hope and disaster. Nowhere is it true… Read More
2015-12-06 00:08
History News Network
Two recent events amid the turmoil in the Middle East are of particular interest, for they illustrate the complexity of the region’s politics, and shed light on th… Read More
2015-11-02 20:00
CounterPunch
Eighteen months after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won a decisive victory over the Congress-led government, India confronts one of the most critical periods in i… Read More
2015-05-27 13:55
CounterPunch
The capture of Ramadi in central Iraq on 18 May by the Sunni-dominated fundamentalist group Islamic State, and only three days later the fall of the ancient city of Palmyra in t… Read More
2015-03-19 03:49
Middle East Eye
How can a state be democratic and claim to be legitimate if it treats half its population differently, maintaining Jewish supremacy?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Pa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
CounterPunch The spectacular rise of the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party to power after last December’s assembly elections in the Indian capital Delhi, and its fall after just 49 days in… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
History has the answer to the turbulent Middle East today Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
CounterPunch Two individuals who have unquestionably dominated the 2013 agenda are Nelson Mandela and Edward Snowden. Their treatment in the media could hardly be more different. Yet i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Is the US president out to craft a new grand design in the Middle East during the remainder of his second term in office, asks Deepak Tripathi Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
History News Network Two recent events amid the turmoil in the Middle East are of particular interest, for they illustrate the complexity of the region’s politics, and shed light on th… Read More
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