Ashish Shukla's Blog, page 27

March 28, 2017

Anniversaries which don’t matter to US

2003 Iraq invasion, My Lai massacre, New York Times, David Petraeus, Abu Ghraib, Saddam Hussein, USA Patriot Act, Russ Feingold, Guantanamo Bay, Bermuda Triangle, CIA, US Air Force, Afghan wedding party, Kandhar Massacre, WikiLeaks, Robert Bales, Haditha, Azizabad, Blackwater guards, Nisour Square, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush’s wiretapping program, Khaled el-Masri, Macedonia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Black Room, Thailand, Camp Nama, Iraq, Walter Cronkite, Joan of Arc, Aztec, Montezuma

US must reflect on its war-crimes

By Tom Engelhardt



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Published on March 28, 2017 02:28

March 16, 2017

Where’s “freedom” gang on Nahid Afrin?

Gurmehar Kaur, Nahid Afrin, Ulemas, Shariah, Saifullah, ISIS, AR Rehman, Lipstick Under My Burqa, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Padmavati, Jana Gana Mana

Why this deafening silence on Afrin?

The gang which took up the case of Gurmehar Kaur in the name of “freedom of expression” is once again active.



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Published on March 16, 2017 00:43

March 7, 2017

ISI’s gravy train & Indian media

Gurmehar Kaur, Lance Naik Moolraj, Pathankot, Umar Khaled, JNU, Kargil, Lashkar, Christine Fair, Ghulab Nabi Fai, Angana Chatterji, US senators, ISI, Mitrokhin archives, KGB, CIA bribe, Sunday Guardian, GHQ Rawalpindi,

ISI and Indian media funding

Gurmehar Kaur was made into a larger-than-life icon.



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Published on March 07, 2017 01:11

March 3, 2017

Environment: Human life faces extinction

 Ginormous asteroid, PSI, biosphere, Jared Diamond, Amazon rainforest, Easter Island, Roman Empire, Environment Protection Agency, Matt Gaetz, Levant

Humanity has put itself at great risk

Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation.



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Published on March 03, 2017 21:58

February 25, 2017

US has lost Middle East war for good

Ruhollah Kohmeini, Jimmy Carter, Great Satan, Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein, Fulda Gap, Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, al-Qaeda, Chalmers Johnson, Gulf War, General David Petraeus, William Butler Yeats, Nouri al-Malika, AQI, Bashar al-Assad, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Hippocratic Oath, Einstein, ISIS. Raqqa, caliphate, Greater Middle East,

US Middle East policy a colossal failure

Nearly a century earlier, Britain had formed Iraq from three separate Ottoman imperial provinces -- Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul.  The 2003 invasion blew up that synthetic state, held together first by British overlords and then by Saddam’s brutal dictatorship




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Published on February 25, 2017 01:52

February 18, 2017

And you thought Russia is aggressor

Segei Lavrov, Rex Tillerson, G20 summit, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine. Georgia, European Union, Putin, FSB, Maidan, Yanukovych, Kremlin, Kiev, Syria, Alepoo, military bases

Russia a victim of propaganda 

There was nothing particularly noteworthy about Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Germany.



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Published on February 18, 2017 23:15

February 2, 2017

Disorder and its role in Hinduism

Chaos, Order, Vedas, Upanishads, Being Different, Rajeev Malhotra, Genesis, Greek, Western mythology, Hebraic, Prajapati, sura, asura, diti, aditi, sat, asat, jami, Pancavimsa Brahmana, prthak, nantva, bandhuta, Samudra-manthan, kashyapa, Serpent, Cosmic creation, mountain, nectar, amrut, poison, nectar, Hymn of Creation, Rig Veda, Agni, Soma, Varuna, Holi, Ritam, Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva, Lord Krishna, aisvarya, amdhurya-bhava

Being Different: A must-read book for all Indians by Rajiv Malhotra

(Chaos is an integral part of Vedas, Upanishads and the vast canon of classical writing in Sanskrit.



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Published on February 02, 2017 00:10

January 28, 2017

Padmavati: History as per se Times of India

 Times of India, Romilla Thapar, Irfan Habib, English mainstream media, AMU, Delhi University, Left-Congress, Saraswati River, Aryans, Dravidian, Sanskrit, Vedic literature, Kalinga War, Ashoka, Mohanjodaro, Harappa, Kalibangan, Hanumangarh, Rakhigarhi, Itihasa, Rishis, Yogis, Smriti, Shruti, Hindusim, Abrahamanic religions, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, West, Akhlaq, Rohith, BJP workers, Padmavati, Khilji, Kamala Devi, King Ramachandra, Devagiri, Amir Khusro, Khazain-ul-Fatuh, Jazia Tax, Malik Kafur,

Let's know first what's History

My first instinct on reading this Times of India (29.1.2017) headline was that the likes of Romilla Thapar and Irfan Habib have been pressed into service by that bird of the same feather, the Engli



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Published on January 28, 2017 21:58

January 27, 2017

What’s this “alternate view” Mr Bhansali?

Sanjay Leela Bhansai, Alternate View, Cinema, Freedom of Express, Malik Mohammad Jayasi, Padmavat, Alauddin Khilji, Rani Padmini, Chittor, Rajasthan, Maharana Pratap, Karni Sena, Bollywood, Fatwa, AR Rahman, Jallikattu, BakrEid, MF Hussain, Charlie Hebdo, Goondagardi

What did you research Mr Bhansali?

"Alternate View par thappad nahin lagta sahib, Double Standard par lagta hai"


(You are not slapped on Alternative View sir. You could though be on double standards).



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Published on January 27, 2017 23:40

January 25, 2017

We must know the enemy within, called Media

New York Times, Trump, Fake News, Conspiracy Theory, Iraq’s WMD, Syria, Washington, State Department, Ukraine, Russia, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam War, Hubert Humphrey, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, October Surprise, Iran-Contra, George H.W. Bush, The Washington Post, Nicaraguan Contra, CIA, White House, Associated Pess, Brian Barger, Gary Webb

The enemy called Media which doesn't  want us to see or say the truth

It’s time the masses realize the enemy within us: The Mainstream Media which is nothing but a propaganda tool of the elites.


 




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Published on January 25, 2017 21:59