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Saturday, December 07, 2019

'Encounte Killing' in Telengana, India-December 2019

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We don't know for sure that the accused were the perpetrators. We also don't know for sure that the police are lying now. We are co...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Trouble comes in two - Paulsons that is.

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The first was the ex-Goldman Sachs chief and ex-Treasury Hank Paulson who used his influence as a smart and astute investment banker to lobb...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

To disclose or not to disclose-Transparency of the Bailout in USA.

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An interesting court battle is being waged in the USA regarding the Freedom of Information Act. Huge sums of money were disbursed by the Fe...
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Is the Love Affair between US and China over ?

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The increasing differences of opinions/stand between the two great Superpowers is being talked about more and more now. To summarise the rec...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Russia trumps US in cozying upto India.

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This will be a short one. President Obama recently hosted Manmohan Singh, PM of India to a gala dinner with much fanfare (and some uninvited...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Obama to Afghanistan- We have no money to save you.

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Just now listened to Obama's speech outlining the strategy for the war in Afghanistan. Obama has told Afghanistan in no uncertain terms ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Too Big to Break

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After nominating (though not publicly) several Banks and institutions as ‘Too Big to Fail’, America is now caught up in a dilemma of how to...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Nobel not Noble anymore

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Difficult to understand how Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize, unless they want to influence him to withdraw from Afghanistan, but that is gra...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Talkfest at New York/Pittsburgh

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The annual talkfest at United Nations this year brought a new Star, Barack Obama. The world leaders lined up to shake his hands and get thei...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

September-The Crisis Anniversary Month- 9/11 and 9/15 - Osama and Lehman

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September is the Crisis Anniversary month for the world. Two events that shook the world this decade happened in September, both in New York...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Need for rethinking Afghan Strategy

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The association with US and the assistance they are getting from US in comabting terrorism seem to be the kiss of death for Pakistan and Afg...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

If you have $5000 would you invest in shares of Google or Microsoft ?

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I just read about the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo agreeing to combine their search engines as competition to Google. Started wonderin...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Time to make India a Permanent Member of UN Security Council

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The UN Security Council has only 5 permanent members since inception. Which is not really reflective of present day geo-political situation...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Iran better watch out for an attack.

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The drum rolls are beating strong. Joe Biden has stated that Isreal is best capable of deciding its threat and taking action. Though Obama h...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Public right to comment on a Murder trial

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There is a case going on in New Zealand about a murder of an University student by her Tutor, who stabbed her several times to death, then m...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Some random thoughts

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Obama and the Muslims. I think President Obama has to first develop a consensus among Americans as to what should be the approach to the M...
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