The European Union-once coveted by European elites as a rival to America's global hegemony- is fast teetering on the abyss of disintegration. Three recent events have fused to unleash irrepressible nationalistic forces that have hurtled the Union towards this earth-shattering moment of truth. Europe's failure to fashion a durable response to the volcanic ash crisis that temporarily grounded airplanes across the continent, exposed deep fissures amongst European countries, as national…

A very high-level delegation from Pakistan is currently visiting Washington for what has been termed as the "Strategic Dialogue" - a new US foreign policy gimmick. The delegation consists of Federal Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaque Kiyani, Chief of Inter Services Intellegence (ISI) and Federal Secretary of Foreign Affairs among other high officials. The talks will be chaired by US Secretary of State…

On March 14, 2010, the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire at the Jaintapur frontier in Sylhet District which officially left 15 (unofficially 30) Bangladeshi Muslims injured. Prior to that, Indian BSF equipped with heavy firearms occupied a Bangladeshi village named `Mondir Tila', and fired about 1000 rounds. The people at the border area of Jaintapur were forced to leave their villages due to the sudden attack by the…

Over the past few days the American crusaders have been bragging about the success of operation Moshtarak in the southern province of Helmand, Afghanistan. The operation is the biggest since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, and involves some 15000 soldiers functioning under the aegis of the American aggressors. The goal of the operation is to clear out the Taliban from the town of Marjah and then to…