Ashish Shukla's Blog, page 48
October 31, 2015
Why Pentagon isn’t brought to table on climate change
There is an elephant in the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even seen..This agreement to ignore the elephant is now the accepted basis of all international negotiations on climate change.
October 29, 2015
Delhi tempts its fate with earthquakes
First Nepal in April. Then Afghanistan a week ago. Delhi it seems is tempting its fate with earthquakes. But is government ready for such an eventuality?
October 26, 2015
"US elite troops are in 147 of 195 countries"
We read a review of the book “Tomorrow’s Battlefield,” by Nick Turse of TomDispatch and learn that Green Berets of United States have been deployed into 135 of the 195 recognized countries in the world.
October 23, 2015
British media has lost its marbles
One of the most profoundly depressing things about the British press today is how uncritically it parrots the official line when it comes to foreign policy.
October 21, 2015
"Yugoslavia break-up was planned in advance"
It was very kind of celebrated investigative journalist Christof Lehmann to drop a link in my email box of a videotape by a French general where the latter claimed that the dismemberment of Yugoslavia (1990s) was planned much in advance primarily by Germany, and United States.
October 20, 2015
An Amazonian problem for humanity
In this third and final part of our Climate Change series, courtesy TomDispatch, we carry forward the alarms of Part I and Part II and lay out the challenges which confront the Paris Climate Summit (November 30-December 11).
October 19, 2015
An Amazonian problem for humanity
In this third and final part of our Climate Change series, courtesy TomDispatch, we carry forward the alarms of Part I and Part II and lay out the challenges which confront the Paris Climate Summit (November 30-December 11).
October 16, 2015
Melting Arctic could release double the carbon
This is the second of the three-part series on Climate Change, courtesy TomDispatch. In the first piece, we learnt how north America and Europe could get colder while the rest of the world hots up. Now we measure the melting of ice sheets in Arctic which could release twice the carbon present in the atmosphere today.
October 15, 2015
Climate Change and fate of our earth
In this three-part series, courtesy TomDispatch, we bring the issue of climate change and its “tipping point” as raised by Michael Klare in his book, “The
October 13, 2015
Russia on the cusp of being a world power
Vladimir Putin has chosen the timing of his intervention in Syria very skillfully. Through his operations in the Middle East, he has the chance to make Russia a world power again.
