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By James M Dorsey Hungary didn’t qualify for the Qatar World Cup, but that hasn’t stopped Prime Minister Victor Orban from exploiting the world’s current focus on soccer to signal his Putinesque definition of central European borders as defined by civilization and ethnicity rather than internationally recognized frontiers. Orban drew the ire of Ukraine and […]

The post Hungary Exit At Doha No Deterrent For PM To Promote Civilizationalist Agenda first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dave Kempa As California’s midterm election results are finalized, it’s clear that the Left has pulled together an impressive string of wins over the Democratic Party establishment. San Franciscans passed numerous housing-related ballot measures championed by Supervisor Dean Preston, who is a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Across the Bay, Oakland progressives […]

The post The Road To American Socialism Runs Through California first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Will a potential Joe Biden versus Donald Trump presidential race happen in 2024 in the United States? It is the question after the two current and former presidents have thrown themselves in the presidential ring two years in advance. Democrats and Republicans are already preparing for the 2024 presidential polls. Polls show […]

The post Another Biden-Trump Contest Is Likely In 2024 Presidential Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) and its chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal a k a Prachanda have been pushed to the fourth position in the election to the Pratinidhi Sabha (national parliament) and Pradesh Sabhas (provincial legislatures) of Nepal held on November 20., It is even behind the newly-established Rastriya Swatantra Party, […]

The post No Combination Is Expected To Get Majority In The National Elections In Nepal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Recent Saudi efforts to appease the Biden administration in the wake of the kingdom’s backing of last month’s OPEC+ oil production cut take on added significance in the wake of this week’s US midterm elections that have strengthened Joe Biden and weakened former President Donald J. Trump. Saudi insistence on a […]

The post Regional Tensions Spill Into Qatar World Cup As Event Gets Underway first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive a wedge between the community and […]

The post Christian Nationalism A New Threat To Israel’s National Security first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Branko Marcetic If you’re going to undermine your own public rhetoric and supposed values by cozying up to a brutal autocrat, you might as well get something out of it. While maybe an obvious point to the rest of us, it’s apparently something US officials are just now belatedly realizing about the US-Saudi relationship. […]

The post The Worsening US-Saudi Split Could End The Brutal War In Yemen first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By W. T. Whitney Jr. To extend a population’s life expectancy at birth (LEB) requires capabilities that are scarce in the United States. The U.S. LEB has fallen in the recent period, quite abruptly. Meanwhile, life expectancy in China and Cuba continues its long-term rise. To understand why we should explore nations’ varying capabilities to […]

The post Cuba And China Exceed United States In Life Expectancy, Latest Report Says first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Debabrata Biswas from Boston America is going to a cliff hanger midterm election in November, this year. A few months ago, the election looked primarily a referendum on the performance of the Democrats and the Biden presidency, centering economy, inflation, crime, immigration and Biden’s stalled legislative agenda in Congress. Republicans were optimistic that a […]

The post November Mid-Term Elections Are Crucial For Future Of Democracy In USA first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Mark Gruenberg President Joe Biden took the gloves off against his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, calling the former Oval Office occupant and his MAGAite disciples a huge threat to democracy and the future of the United Sates. He went to Independence Hall   on September 1 to deliver both a dark message about how democracy […]

The post President Joe Biden For Wider Front To Defend Democracy In Mid Term Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Debabrata Biswas From Boston   When Donald. J. Trump, the former president of USA, left the White House after his defeat in 2020 election and shifted to his Florida residence at Mar – a- Lago, he took with him boxes of official documents which had to be handed to the National Archives Authority, under […]

The post Donald Trump Is On Dock Over FBI Seizures Of Classified Documents From His House first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat   Till recently, when commemorating the significant anniversaries of independence, we could cite the parliamentary democratic system as one of the major achievements of independent India. The adoption of a republican constitution in 1950 provided the scope for people’s participation and a voice in politics which reflected the aspirations of the Indian […]

The post Democracy Is Under Siege As India Celebrates 75th Anniversary Of Independence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in a US drone strike. The problem is that’s only half of the truth; the other half is that Zawahiri was more a has-been than a power to […]

The post Al Qaeda Chief Zawahiri’s Killing By U.S. Is A Symbolic Act first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has so far received the backing of BJP, BJD, YSR Congress, TDP, Janata Dal (Secular), Shiromani Akali Dal, JDU, AIADMK, Lok Jan Shakti Party, Apna Dal (Sonelal), Nishad Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Republican Party. Other parties like India (Athawale), NPP, NPF, MNF, NDPP, SKM, AGP, PMK, […]

The post NDA Presidential Candidate Droupadi Murmu Is Set To Win On July 18 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Roe v Wade judgment of 1973. SCOTUS issued its decision with regards to the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Centre (Mississippi). Abortion rights will cease to be a federal affair from now and it will be left to the […]

The post US Supreme Court’s Abortion Judgment Is An Assault On Women’s Rights first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘How many children does Elon Musk have?’ is old-hat. The question tagging this fellow now is ‘how many more children does he plan to have?’ On world population day, a camera panned the faces of 19 Indian children born of two women and their common hubby. Ranged against the father of 19, […]

The post The Importance Of Being Elon Musk-The World’s Richest Person first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray The four-day visit of the eight-member team of the Communist Party of China in Kathmandu, led by Liu Jianchao, the new head of CPC’s international liaison department, as well as a meeting with the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center),Pushpa Kamal Dahal, at the latter’s residence in Khumaltar both […]

The post Beijing’s Kathmandu Headache: Will Communists Win Nepal Elections? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki  Chakraborty The Ukraine war entered its 134th day on July 7 giving no signs of ending. In the initial days, there were some efforts for active negotiations but since then, it has been converted into an open confrontation between Russia and Ukraine backed by the USA and NATO. Sanctions against Russia by the […]

The post US Forces Are Involved In At Least 23 Proxy Wars Across The World first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Beckett On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and making abortion illegal in at least eighteen states, with more potentially to follow. Despite ample warning, based both on the justices’ histories and the leak of the decision almost two months before it became official, national […]

The post United States Supreme Court Is Using Its Unchecked Power Against People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Marlon Ettinger Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing alliance elected 142 MPs to France’s National Assembly on Sunday. In some ways this was a success: the broad left more than doubled its number of MPs and helped strip President Emmanuel Macron of his majority, though it also fell way short of the 289 seats needed to make […]

The post Broad Left Unity Achieved Before French National Assembly Polls Sees Strains first appeared on IPA Newspack.