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The congressional committee that investigated last year’s attack on the US Capitol recommended Monday that criminal charges be filed against former president Donald Trump. The House panel unanimously urged the Justice Department to pursue Trump for inciting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the US government and making false statements. “The […]

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By Dylan James The Cuban government has established an extensive network of biotechnology labs that have developed cutting-edge medical advancements to reinvent traditional cancer and diabetes treatments. For the U.S., a country that tops lists for the prevalence of cancer and diabetes among its population, these advancements would be great news for the millions of […]

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By James M Dorsey Pomp and circumstance are important. So are multiple agreements to be signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week, his first venture beyond East and Central Asia in three years. No doubt, Xi’s reception will be on par with the welcoming of Donald J. Trump when he […]

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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 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.

The Independents may as well turn out to be trump cards during government formation with pollsters predicting a photo finish in the Himachal assembly elections. Sensing this, some have even started to form pressure groups to cash in on the unclear outcome. A total of 21 rebels from Congress and BJP were in the fray […]

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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 Sushil Kutty It is a small world, and sound travels far. Otherwise how could America’s  former President Donald Trump echo Prime Minister Narendra Modi?  Announcing his 2024 bid for the White House, Trump said, “This is not my campaign, this will be our campaign”. And television host Sean Hannity gushed, “Great line, if he […]

The post In The Gujarat Assembly Polls, It Is Narendra Modi All The Way, Not BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping met on Monday in  the Indonesian island of Bali, the first substantive meeting between them since Joe Biden became President, and Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term. The other side of the road, other leaders of Group of 20 paused till Xi-and-Biden worked out […]

The post Biden-Xi Talks At G20 Meet Send Mature Signals Amidst The Period Of Tensions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Immoral, illegal, archaic, coercive, intimidating, criminal, absurd, reckless, brutal — even genocidal. These were some of the adjectives used by global leaders at the United Nations as they took to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to rail against US policy toward Cuba. Then yesterday, […]

The post Entire World Is Demanding Again An End To The US Blockade Of Cuba first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Olavo Passos De Souza On Sunday, October 30, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved a historic victory over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest race since the restoration of Brazilian democracy in the 1980s, Bolsonaro became the first incumbent to ever lose reelection. The election divided Brazil between the defense […]

The post Lula’s Victory Over Bolsonaro Has Restored Hope For Democracy In Brazil first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Aam Aadmi Party boss Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched a crowdsourcing campaign to select the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the Gujarat elections as part of its efforts to trump the BJP in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. The “Choose Your Chief Minister” campaign is the latest push by the Delhi Chief Minister who […]

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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 […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. The […]

The post Left Wing Luiz Lula All Set To Be Next Brazilian President After October 30 Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Branko Marcetic The security failure that led to the January 6 Capitol Hill riot in 2021 was always deeply weird. How was it that the vastest, most penetrating surveillance state in human history Unites States of America was taken by surprise? Why was law enforcement ― which responds to just about any gathering at […]

The post The January 6 Capitol Hill Riot Was A Spectacular Failure Of US Security first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Berry Craig There’s ample historical precedent for Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP embracing far-right, if not outright fascist, European politicians. Their latest hero is Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s likely new prime minister. Never mind that her authoritarian, racist, Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ Brothers of Italy Party was founded after World War II by […]

The post America’s Right Wing Has Long Been Enamoured With Fascists Abroad first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Antoni Kapcia As academics and the media recall and reassess the Cuban missile crisis sixty years on, their focus will primarily be on the two superpowers — the United States and the USSR — that seemingly came close to nuclear war. However, it is also timely to reconsider those who found themselves in the […]

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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 Kalyani Shankar Now that the Congress Party will have a non-Gandhi Chief, what happens to the three Gandhis- Sonia, Rahul, and Priyanka? Will they continue to dominate? When a reporter asked about their future role, Sonia said, “Of course, you have to ask the party, I suppose.” But one can see a clear game […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Will Remain Central Leader Of Congress Irrespective Of President first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil, the largest populated country in Latin America, failed to elect its next President in the national elections held on October 2 as the front runner in opinion polls Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president got 48.4 per cent of the votes polled-slightly less than the required 50 per […]

The post Polarised Brazil Poised For Run Off On October 30 As Lula Is Short Of Majority first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty Only 72 hours before the holding of the Presidential elections in Brazil on October 2, Left coalition candidate and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula has emerged as a front runner against the far right incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro. Latest opinion polls show that Lula has a […]

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By Arun Srivastava The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Narendra Modi government have globalised the hate politics and divisiveness. The two evils which have been, after Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister, dictating the political discourse in India have made their way to the international arena.  This is clearly manifest in the incidents that took […]

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