India Loses $7 Billion WTO Case Against US
India has lost a $7 billion WTO case against US. Meanwhile China has won its case with the WTO now allowing the Chinese to impose a $3.6 billion sanction on American goods. The verdict comes days after India and US officially suspended defense cooperation in what is now giving rise to a full-fledged India-US Trade […]
RCEP Agreement – Threat To India’s Seed Sovereignty
We are opening the doors that guard our farmers’ agricultural produce against exploitation. The RCEP agreement, if implemented, will bypass the WTO and offload all the excess agricultural produce from China into the Indian markets freely. Shifting our balance of payment and food sovereignty into the hands of China will be detrimental to the Indian […]
India Russia Partnership Help Venezuela Bypass US Sanctions
Hugo Chavez, the former President used to roam the streets of Venezuela in tanks filled with Gold bars displaying to his countrymen how their Gold and Oil would be used to pull the nation out of the Petrodollar system. Chavez is assassinated before fulfilling his dream and Venezuela has gone through some 20 years of […]
India US Officially Suspends Defense Cooperation
In a major development brewing for sometime now, India and US have officially suspended Defense Cooperation after Americans refused to give India high-end jet-engine technology. At the heart of the Indo-US Strategic Partnership is what is known as the Defense Technology and Trade Initiative or DTTI. Under the 2012 DTTI, India and the US set up […]
Indian Biodiversity First, Foreign Treaties Later
India has a crucial decision to make. Should it conserve its biodiversity and germplasm for future generations or surrender its heritage to corporations and foreign treaties? Come November, India is about to enter key negotiations on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) at its eighth general body meeting in […]
How Russian Mafia Plotted To Sell Indian Titanium To Boeing
In 2014, the American Department of Justice charged six individuals with links to the Russian Mafia including an Indian government official for plotting to sell Indian titanium to Boeing. How Russian Mafia plotted to sell Indian Titanium to Boeing Six foreign nationals, including a Ukrainian businessman and a government official in India were charged by […]
The S400 Deal – Will US Sanction Reliance Defense?
The fall of th S400 deal would mean a major setback for Anil Ambani’s. If the deal doesn’t get a waiver and India still goes ahead Ambani’s Rafale deal gets hit. India can easily find an alternative to S400 but that’d destroy Reliance Defense. The question is will US sanction Reliance Defense as it did with […]
Kurds & Kurdistan – A Geopolitical Perspective
Who are the Kurds? Why should the overthrow of the Syrian government be their objective? Are they on a quest for Kurdistan or are they just pawns in the game of geopolitical players? What are the implications of the Turkish Operation Peace Spring for India? Historical accounts of the Kurds and Kurdistan have been a […]
Operation Timber Sycamore – The Shadow War In Syria
Operation Timber Sycamore is the codename of a covert operation officially authorized by Obama in June 2013 to train and equip the anti-Assad rebellion, but which actually started in October 2011, when the CIA was operating via Britain’s MI6 to avoid having to notify Congress that it was arming the rebels in Syria. Originally, the CIA and MI6 (the British foreign intelligence […]
Global Terrorist Released In US Brokered Taliban India Prisoner Swap
A designated Global Terrorist and Opium King, Abdul Rashid Baluch has been released in a US-brokered Taliban-India prisoner swap. The Afghan Taliban have confirmed that it has freed at least three Indian hostages in exchange for the release of at least 11 Taliban commanders from a high-security prison in Afghanistan in an apparent deal that […]