WHY THE AMERICAN RAJ IS UNDER SIEGE
September 25, 2012 The killing of the US ambassador to Libya and angry demonstrations across the Muslim world over a tacky anti-Islamic hate video have produced the usual flood of wrong-headed...
View ArticleThe World’s Most Dangerous Border – Kashmir
January 12, 2013 ISTANBUL - Reports of fighting along Kashmir’s cease-fire line don’t normally receive much attention in the western media. Last week, for example, saw a series of clashes on 8 and...
View ArticleA BIG WAR SCARE IN THE HIMALAYAS
25 May 2013 In the later 1990’s, I was invited to a small dinner in New York given for the Dalai Lama. All of the guests came expecting to hear His Holiness explain the meaning of life. To their...
View ArticleWORLD DANGER SPOTS 2014
January 4, 2014 Where are the world’s most dangerous places in 2014? *Mostly forgotten, but the highly dangerous, Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir. Rebellion against Indian rule by...
View ArticleRUNNING THE GLOBE IS TIRING
April 26, 2014 Small wonder President Barack Obama’s hair is rapidly greying. Most second term presidents age rapidly from the constant pressure, tension, and need to make tough, painful decisions....
View ArticleNATO v. ISIS?
20 Sept 2014 NATO has struck in Iraq. Or, more precisely, two French Rafale warplanes bombed a storage depot in northern Iraq believed to be used by ISIS. Washington cheered the French attack as the...
View ArticleINDIA’S PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER
December 6, 2014 I’ve covered 14 wars and seen a lot of combat. But being shelled or shot at never scared me half as much as the fear of serious illness in the field. While reporting on the 1980’s war...
View ArticleCHINA’S FORGOTTEN VICTORY IN WWII
September 5, 2015 The huge military parade held in Beijing this week was billed as a commemoration of China’s role in World War II. Over 15 million Chinese died in its eight-year resistance to...
View ArticleTHE US AND CHINA ARE PLAYING WITH MATCHES
October 31, 2015 Russia and US warplanes are flying way too close to one another over Syria and may soon, in Iraq. Drones are all over the place. An accident is inevitable. Civilian airliners are...
View ArticleBEWARE THE KASHMIR VOLCANO
25 September 2016 The divided south Asian mountain state of Kashmir is like a volcano: forgotten when quiescent, but terrifying when it comes alive. After the first India-Pakistan War in 1947, in which...
View ArticleINDIA AND PAKISTAN RATTLE THEIR NUCLEAR SABRES
February 23, 2019 While Americans were obsessing over a third-rate actor’s fake claims of a racial assault, old foes India and Pakistan were rattling their nuclear weapons in a very dangerous crisis...
View ArticleINDIA’S ‘TRUMP’ WINS BIG
June 1, 2019 How fleeting is glory! Back in 1998, the South Asian Journalists Association proclaimed me ‘Journalist of the Year’ for a newspaper article I had written about India. But the next year the...
View ArticleHAIR-TRIGGER NUCLEAR ALERT OVER KASHMIR
August 10, 2019 Two of the world’s most important powers, India and Pakistan, are locked into an extremely dangerous confrontation over the bitterly disputed Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir. Both...
View ArticleMUSLIM HATERS FLOCK TOGETHER
February 29, 2020 President Donald Trump’s 36-hour whirlwind visit to India this past week was designed to show Americans just how adored abroad their president really is. Unluckily for Trump, his...
View ArticleNUCLEAR RIVALS CLASH IN THE HIMALAYAS
June 20, 2020 Last week, the world’s most populous nations, India and China, both nuclear armed, clashed in the high Himalayan region of Ladakh. At least 20 Indian troops died and 12 were reportedly...
View ArticleMURDER IN BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA
September 27, 2023 Who murdered Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar? This crime, which occurred last June near Vancouver, British Columbia, has riveted Canada and put Ottawa on a collision course...
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