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Wajahat QaziKashmir Observer |
What did U.S. President Donald Trump get wrong after deciding to attack Iran? And what did he get right? What made him attack Iran? And what are the...
With slanted coverage and an almost complete occlusion of alternate points of view, even in news, by the ‘mainstream media’ in the US, a neutral...
Post the “invasion” of Venezuela and the whisking away of its President, Nicolas Maduro, US President Donald Trump and his team have upped the...
Three themes coalesce in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. One is the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This pertains to the...
Notwithstanding the spin by America’s “mainstream media” on the United States National Security 2025 document released by the Trump...
Orientalism, a hoary discipline and a corpus of texts that probed into the vitals of non-Western societies, was poignantly and trenchantly critiqued...
Cultural differences are real. These can constitute grounds for frisson, friction and conflict, injuring societies in the process. To illustrate the...
One pithy aphorism from the great philosopher and theorist of war, Sun Tzu, is: “The art of war is winning without fighting.” This may seem like...
Three themes, two historical events and the other a concept from physics, may best describe (or even define) the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi...
Class differences and social hierarchies are a feature of the human condition. But these get articulated in different expressions and idioms in...
The onset of the neo-liberal wave of globalization in the post-Cold War 1990s triggered massive flows of people into the West. These movements were...
The United States, as gleaned from ‘mainstream’ media and the hullabaloo raised thereof, appears to be in crisis mode, almost on the verge of...
Dear Zohran! First things first: Congratulations for a well-deserved, well-earned and emphatic victory! Against all odds, against entrenched...
Whatever be the reasons for Donald Trump’s U turns- Iran’s deft, resolute, and fierce resistance, the threat by Iran of choking the Strait of...
In a convoluted, zigzagged, sometimes nice, at times vicious but mostly serendipitous way, I have been the beneficiary of the western university...
Like him or hate him, Donald Trump is both an electrifying, galvanizing and rallying figure. An eloquent validation of this is the insipid,...
Soon after the US president Donald Trump ordered attacks on Yemen’s Houthis ‘to free up shipping lanes’, about 31 people were killed in the...
When prejudice masquerades as ‘intellect’ and ‘analysis’ and when certainty induced criticism is a proxy for narcissistic self -aggrandizement...
In reductive and prosaic terms, ‘a living language is one that is used and spoken by people of a given society or culture’. Given this, is...
US president Donald Trump deserved all credit for the ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Apparently, the president’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff,...
In the 17th and 18th centuries, a movement arose in the west. One major premise of this movement was doubt. Pioneered by a bunch of brilliant...