Dr Arshad M Khan

Unwinnable Wars

  Her name means beautiful, and she is despite her tragic life.  Hasina recalls the day when the Myanmar army set fire to her village and killed the inhabitants, including…

Two Cases, Minor And Major

News stories have Donald Trump being mocked by France's Macron at a Buckingham Palace reception for the NATO leaders meeting. A nearby open mic caught the incident. Trump's response was…

The Turkish Gambit

The only certainty in war is its intrinsic uncertainty, something Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon chance upon. One only has to look back on America's topsy-turvy fortunes in…

Unhappy India

  Not very long ago (Sept 2, 2019), India launched a rocket to the far side of the moon.  It carried a lunar lander that fell silent following the landing…

When Boris Became PM

So Boris Johnson has become Britain's prime minister. He has been trying and scheming, scheming and trying including undermining David Cameron. A 'remainer' before, Johnson saw political capital in the…

Why Trump Backed Off On Iran

War is a failure of reason, it has been said, and war with Iran makes little sense after they have faithfully complied with their nuclear agreement (the Joint Comprehensive Plan…

Modi Wins May Loses

The Indian elections are over. Despite Narendra Modi's abysmal economic record -- industrial production has slumped, farmers are in trouble and had been demonstrating their plight, and unemployment is at…

Up The Wall

If a tragedy is watching disaster unfold and being powerless to stop it, then such is Brexit -- a conundrum wrapped in an enigma as the saying goes. The UK…

Honor Among Thieves?

When Michael Cohen, fixer for Donald Trump,  payoff-artist and jailbird-to-be, who starts 3-year prison sentence on May 6, branded his former boss a liar and cheat who ran for president…

A Calamitous Week

Something is infinitely wrong in the picture, a juxtaposition of polar opposites:  New Zealand, a country of unfailingly courteous and kind people, and an extremist terrorist killing 50 Muslims at…

New Environmental Studies Raise Alarms

   New environmental research continues to alarm as three studies published within the past week amply demonstrate. Danish scientists report a significant increase in winter rain over Greenland.  The rain-induced…

Beating The Drums of War

As countries continue their squabbles, their home the earth is going to hell in a handbasket.  A new review paper in Biological Conservation reports 40 percent of insect species are…

A Tale of Two Countries

In a statement this week, Istanbul's chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, says Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate.  If this alone does not make a…

Of Dissemblers And Dismemberers

The maliciously mocking, malevolent, maladroit, misfit, malappropriating the White House got his comeuppance this week ... at least for a while.  Senator Elizabeth Warren released her DNA test results conducted…

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