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By Tiara Sahar Ataii One Saturday morning in November 2020, Dimitris Choulis, a human rights lawyer native to the Greek island of Samos, woke to a message informing him that twenty-four asylum seekers had landed on the beach. Worried they would be forced back to Turkey by the Greek authorities, Dimitris rushed to the mountains […]

The post Throughout Europe, New Laws Are Criminalizing Desperate Refugees first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government might in all probability be able to bring the friendly Arab governments round to softening their initial response to what they consider to be the most sacrilegious remark by BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammed. The government has already intensified the firefighting, with special efforts being made to explain […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt’s Image Has Got A Big Jolt In Gulf Nations In Last Few Days first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey United States of America and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights has come home to roost with Turkish opposition to Finnish and Swedish NATO membership. The opposition has sparked debates about Turkey’s controversial place in the North Atlantic defence alliance. Turkey’s detractors point […]

The post Double Standards Haunt US, Europe In NATO Dispute With Turkey first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray The monolithic dictatorship of the Taliban shows cracks as the compulsion for compromises on certain issues looms large. There is bitter opposition within the top leadership. It was apparent months ago when the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, publicly pulled up the Taliban high command for banning girls from […]

The post Taliban Command Structure Afflicted With Bitter Factionalism first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir With France’s parliamentary elections scheduled on June 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in a stronger position than ever. Where other left-populist challengers around the West have struggled to build lasting organization, or even to repeat their initial electoral scores, his France Insoumise movement has established itself as a key force in national politics. […]

The post Broad Left Coalition Has An Edge In French National Assembly Poll On June 12 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The world believes that the success of western sanctions against Putin’s Russia depends on just two countries: India and China. On the face of it, it would appear to be a straightforward positioning. For, much of the Russian oil that has been made redundant by the sanctions is expected to flow to […]

The post New Delhi Holds Its Own On Discounted Oil Imports From Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Shilpi Bhattacharya Do the Adani Group’s recent acquisitions of cement (63.19 per cent stake in Ambuja Cements and 54.5 per cent in its subsidiary ACC) and media (49 per cent stake in Quintillion Business Media) companies raise concerns for the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’)? Media reports have said that they are unlikely […]

The post Gautam Adani’s Buying Spree Merits A Rethink In India’s Competition Law first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey For now, Ukraine is the far from my bed show for most Middle Eastern nations. The question is not if but when Ukraine will arrive on their doorstep. Two centrifugal forces threaten to push Middle Eastern nations off the tightrope: an increasingly bifurcated world populated by a multitude of civilisationalist leaders […]

The post Ukraine: How Long Can Middle East Nations Do Tightrope Walk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee China’s fast growing strategic and economic ties with Russia are becoming a major concern for India. Facing the heat of increasing Western financial sanctions on the country apart from large supplies of military and monetary aid from the US-led NATO countries to Ukraine, Russia is fast getting closer to China, the world’s […]

The post Growing China-Russia Ties Put India Under A Trap first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nora Garcia Nieves “Neither war that destroys us, nor peace that oppresses us.” This historic anti-war slogan of the Spanish feminist movement holds one of the fundamental keys to building a horizon of peace. It claims that peace is not just a ceasefire, nor is it surrender, or silence before those who impose their […]

The post Europe Is At Crossroads Between Neoliberalism And Justice first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Pradip Baksi Why may one study Rammohun Roy (1772-1833), a contemporary of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) while studying Karl Marx (1818-1883) today? Some of the burning issues addressed by Rammohun Roy have remained with us since his time and, some others that had seemed to have been overcome, have come back with a […]

The post Rammohun Roy And Karl Marx: Resonating Together first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In what appeared to be a sudden move, the Indian government prohibited the export of wheat on May 13. This appeared to be totally out of sync with India’s policy of goodwill and outreach through liberal relief and support measures under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure, so far. Given the food […]

The post In The Wake Of War In Ukraine, Wheat Is Now A Strategic Commodity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

James M Dorsey Amid speculation about a reduced US military commitment to security in the Middle East, Turkey has spotlighted the region’s ability to act as a disruptive force if its interests are neglected. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off alarm bells this week, declaring that he was not “positive” about possible Finnish and […]

The post Turkey’s Erdogan Plays Games Within And With NATO first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Few will disagree that the US-led 30-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is using Ukraine to test Russia’s military capability and patience. The increasing supplies of arms, money and even clandestinely despatching soldiers to Ukraine indicate that NATO is fighting a proxy war against Russia cleverly using Ukraine as a pawn. The […]

The post The West Is Using Ukraine To Fight A Proxy War Against Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The seismic shift in the global crude oil market has begun to take effect. This is expected to manifest in tightened crude markets as well as unprecedented shifts in trade flows, most notably of Russian oil from Europe to Asia. Russia is expected to redirect as much volume as possible to alternative […]

The post India A Key Player In Seismic Shift In Global Crude Oil Market first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he laid down a marker for a critical mass of world leaders who, like him, think in civilizational rather than national terms. In the minds of these leaders, the stakes in Ukraine are about much more than the future of a former Soviet republic […]

The post Modi’s ‘Civilisationalism’ May Be Another Potential Flashpoint first appeared on IPA Newspack.