Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is widely viewed as the father of the American hemp industry, given his role as then-Senate majority leader in pushing across the finish line the 2018 farm bill
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Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear.
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A grave constitutional question now confronts the nation: whether the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), originally constituted to prosecute atrocities committed during the 1971 Liberation War, is legally valid in its present incarnation.
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The Chanakya Defence Dialogue, held annually to discuss India’s military and defense strategies, recently witnessed Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi make a number of bold claims regarding Kashmir’s security landscape and
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Another G20 summit convenes this week in Johannesburg, but the mood surrounding it says more than the agenda ever will. The forum was born not out of ideology but necessity. Its creation
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In the United Nations’ Humanitarian Situation Update #340 on the Gaza Strip (12 November 2025), there is a section on the distress experienced by more than 1 million Palestinian children in Gaza. The most
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This year marks the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières. It took place on November 18 south of Le Cap, in what was then known as Saint Domingue. In that battle,
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On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. For the first time, the report directly evaluates their multidimensional poverty data against climate
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The National Security Advisor of India recently made a thought-provoking statement regarding India’s neighbours. He said that, due to weak governance, public uprisings had led to regime changes in Bangladesh, Nepal, and
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Words are powerful tools. Violent extremists know this well, often choosing their phrasing extremely carefully to build loyalty among their followers. When wielded just so, they can do enormous harm. Because their
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Close on the heels of the first-ever joint tactical counter-terrorist exercise ‘Wolverine Path 2025,’ involving Russian and Sri Lankan troops, at the Army Training School, in Maduru Oya (25 Oct to 4
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“Syrians are nasty people.” This ancient Roman graffiti was found during World War II etched on a rock in Syria by a friend’s father who was soldiering in the British Army. Not much has
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When Italy returned nearly 100 stolen artifacts, some dating back 5,000 years, to Pakistan last week, it was far more than a diplomatic gesture. It was a moral reckoning, a civilizational homecoming,
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“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” ~ Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Staged in the broad, resonant spaces of the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles during its much-anticipated 2025 season,
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Justice Abandoned!!! When a nation’s justice system is seized by political vengeance, verdicts become weapons, not judgments. The death sentence handed down on 17th November to Bangladesh’s most successful Prime Minister, Sheikh
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