At the invitation of Prime Minister Löfven, Prime Minister Modi paid an official visit to Stockholm on 16-17 April 2018.Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Löfven met on 17 April and recalled their Joint Statement issued in Mumbai in 2016, welcomed progress so far on its implementation and reconfirmed their commitment to the Joint Statement as the…

With relations between Washington, Moscow and Europe at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War, the Deep Cuts Commission together with a number of additional high-level actors is warning that urgent steps need to be taken to contain nuclear risks and tensions and prevent a new nuclear arms race.In a statement issued today, the group notes…

Many foreign media and even some German media people reported during the endless appearing process for finding a coalition 2017/2018 about a “governmental crisis”. This mostly due to the lack of knowledge these coalition talks being a defined process despite taking unusually long. Germany sure wasn’t able to take major decisions hurting…

I have been tracking news on Indian TV for the past 15 years or more and in all these years many news channels and journalists have made and lost their identity, shifting their faith from one channel to the other. But in all these years I have seen that Good Journalism has faded away or in other words has vanished.Good journalism does not mean having…

China and India are the two largest and fastest growing economies, not only in Asia, but in the world. These two countries share disputes on borders from 1962 but are not able to overcommit,yet their bilateral ties help them both in growth and solving their global issues. China, being a very strong nation and the second largest economy in the world, is…

This was my first chance to meet Mark Tully in person. I had interviewed him before over the telephone for a community radio station I set up in my previous organization in 2014. A magnificent personality, an excellent welcome and polished Hindi makes Mark Tully what he was in yesteryears and what he is today.When I got in touch and asked to interview…

Even as a new Cold War seems imminent India has defied Washington's diktat and categorically refused to expel Russian diplomats to express solidarity with the West and has stood by its time-tested strategic partner Russia amid media and academia speculations of New Delhi jumping on the US bandwagon. "We don't take cue from any bloc. We have an…

Could General Secretary Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump Earn the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019?

As I have previously reported, when I was in Japan in February meeting with Benjamin Fulford, he introduced me to a number of most interesting people, among them Princess Kaoru Nakamaru, Chair of the International Affairs Institute for World Peace…

What If We Could Bury the Deep State & Create Peace & Prosperity for All?
As I contemplate the possibilities of Xi Jinping as General Secretary for the People’s Republic of China, and both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump as Presidents of their respective countries, the Russian Federation and the United States of America (USA), all serving…

Russia never hits first, but acts always in response: and here are 8 historical reasons why. It is a generally accepted opinion nowadays that whatever international conflict or tension exists, there is always a track behind it. A Russian track. It is almost unanimously believed that Russia strikes first to exercise its imperialistic expansionism…

On August 13, 2017 a prominent Russian scientist on post-Soviet issues, Sergey Markedonov participated in a radio show, Geopolitical Cuisine, with Igor Shatrov aired by MediaMetrics Radio, dealing with the August 2008 War. During the broadcast both, Shatrov and Markedonov raised some very interesting and significant issues that were presented in scopes…

It didn’t take much time to Prime Minister Theresa May to react to the apparent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Youlia. A few days after the Salisbury Hospital confirmed identification of the nerve agent to which the Skripals and other collateral victims were exposed, the British Prime Minister announced before the…