Salman Rafi Sheikh
Soleimani’s Killing may Drive the US Out of the Region & Trump Out of Office
While General Qasem Soleimani’s death in a US air strike may apparently seem not big enough a development to start an all-out war, or even World War 3, there is no gainsaying that this deliberate attempt to escalate tensions in the region will have severe consequences...
US Elections: Increasing ‘Russophobia’ is the Talk of the Town
While ‘Russophobia’s is not a new phenomenon in the US, the fact that it has gained a lot of political currency due to the controversy that followed the election of president Trump in 2016 shows that this phenomenon has become a part and parcel of US domestic politics. Its major manifestation in the current scenario is the latest defence...
Afghanistan: An Unwinnable Trillion-Dollar ‘War of Lies’
Nobody would have expected that one of final nails in the US Afghan war’s coffin could come from within the US itself through a revelation of ‘Afghanistan Papers’ by the Washington Post, detailing the mountain of lies that the US administrations spent years telling to sustain their war. But then such a revelation could have come from within the US only where...