By Alfred W. McCoy Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegr...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/29032024-is-the-american-empire-now-in-its-ultimate-crisis-oped/
The director of the Congressional Budget Office is sounding the alarm on the U.S. government’s unsustainable fiscal path. Philip Swagel issued his warning in an interview with Claire Jones o...
The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy. Arab conquerors introduced it to the African continent as they cultiv...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/29032024-imperial-fruit-bananas-costs-and-climate-change-oped/
A controversy arose needlessly over the advisory issued by the American embassy in Moscow on March 7 to the effect that “extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/29032024-ukraines-survival-hangs-in-the-balance-oped/
By Igor Torbakov (Eurasianet ) -- We marked this week the 40th day since Alexei Navalny collapsed and died in an Arctic Circle prison camp. Russian Orthodox belief holds that on this day the...
By Andrew Hammond Vladimir Putin this month secured a new presidential term that means his leadership of Russia could continue until at least 2030. By then, he will have served as leader for a ...
The 2024 general election is now underway. Like most of you, I’ve found myself immersed in many conversations about the threat to our nation — and the world — posed by Donald Trump. ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/29032024-robert-reich-how-to-deal-with-the-trump-threat-oped/
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Tuesday, six out of the eight judges of Islamabad High Court wrote a letter to the Supreme Judicial Council members complaining about interference of Pakistan army’s spy age...
In his March 24th opinion piece for the Times, David Brooks agrees with a "broad consensus ATOP the Democratic Party" (is there room for such breadth on the peak of that lofty mountain?) sayin...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-mountaintop-removal-oped/
As per international relations a state can change its friends but cannot change its neighbors owing to geographical compulsions. Neighbors should at least have good relations if not the best and ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-pakistan-afghanistan-trade-oped/
A Hadith declares that the month of Ramadan was when the three Abrahamic Religions began to receive their Books of Revelation. This Hadith, cited by ibn Kathir in elucidating Qur'an 2:185; states...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-ramadan-declares-god-dwells-among-us-and-among-others-oped/
The waste trade watchdog Basel Action Network (BAN), which takes its name from the global Basel Convention on the Control of the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, is ...
Following substantial military setbacks in recent months, the Myanmar military has declared its intention to enforce, for the first time, a conscription law enacted in 2010, mandating young indi...
DELIVERING GROWTH AND NATIONAL PRIDE, MODI IS SET TO CLOCK A THIRD TERM (1) AS PM OF THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY OF THE WORLD He is Narendra Modi, Prime Minister to a nation of 1.4 billion Indians...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-india-elections-2024-part-i-oped/
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Nathan Porter, visited Islamabad from March 14-19, 2024, to hold discussions on the second review of Pakistan’s economic program supported by a...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-pakistan-and-imf-reach-staff-level-agreement-oped/
All attempts by senior leadership to form an electoral alliance between the BJD and BJP in Odisha have failed due to popular opposition to such an alliance in forthcoming elections. Both parties ...
“Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.” The Sixth Commandment has been encoded in civil law throughout the world, and though it has proven to be unenforceable in most instances, it has nonetheless...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-new-york-weighs-nixing-adultery-law-oped/
Togo's political landscape undergoes another significant shift with the adoption of a new constitution. This revision, enacted on March 25, 2024, ushers in a fundamental change from a presidentia...
With the Indian parliamentary election commencing shortly, the critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government have claimed that India is sitting on a "ticking bomb" of joblessness . The cri...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-india-false-alarm-on-unemployment-scenario-oped/
By David Brady, Jr. The raid on an Amish family farm is the direct result of government protectionism of big agriculture through needless and cumbersome regulations. Amos Miller is an Amish f...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-big-agricultures-protectionism-targets-the-amish-oped/
The terrorist attack near Moscow on March 22 in which 140 people were killed by four gunmen was claimed by a radical Islamist group. But the bigger picture indicates the assault was organized by ...
THE UNITED STATES RELENTED AND ABSTAINED FROM VOTING ON A UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION REQUIRING ISRAEL TO ABIDE BY A TWO-WEEK CEASEFIRE. POPULAR PRESSURE FORCED THIS SMALL STEP. ORGANIZED CAMP...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-the-peoples-ceasefire-oped/
By Jonathan Power Once again, the media is presenting us with images of the mother of all famines — stretching from Yemen to Somalia, to Sudan and South Sudan, to the Central African Republic...
Just like earlier Russian emigrations, many who fled Russia in disgust and fear after Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine assumed that they would soon be returning in triumph to a tra...
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenan...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-unjust-war-and-a-just-peace-oped/
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor; the United States abstained. Israel immediat...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-robert-reich-how-biden-can-stop-netanyahu-oped/
SRI LANKA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS HAS WORSENED DUE TO IMF DEALS, CAUSING SOCIAL UNREST, UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY, AND FOOD INSECURITY, AND POSING SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES FOR ITS PEOPLE. The International ...
By Dr. Abdellatif El-Menawy In efforts to address the Sudanese crisis, there is a consensus that the only viable solution lies in an immediate ceasefire, a return to the negotiating table and t...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-can-egypt-succeed-in-sudan-where-others-have-failed-oped/
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, "So you want to study to be an archaeologist, go to gradua...
Recent developments in India’s neighborhood do not bode well for Delhi’s much-vaunted ‘Neighborhood First Policy.’ While India celebrates her newfound global stature as an economic powerh...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032024-indias-neighborhood-first-policy-on-a-knife-edge-oped/