Saudi Arabia’s Aramco and India’s Reliance Industries scrapped plans entailing a $15 billion Saudi investment in India’s Reliance Industries to acquire a 20% stake in Reliance due to the Indian oil shifting to the telecom conglomerate. Reliance Industries justified the step by saying it came “due to evolving nature of Reliance’s business portfolio.” The Indian […]
In a bold display of the bipartisan determination of the U.S. Congress after 9/11 to lock-in forever the bonanza that the Congress temporarily granted to America’s ‘Defense’ industries (manufacturers of war-weapons, etc.), the proposed congressional Resolution, on July 19th, “On the Amendment (Paul Amdt. No. 222 )”, aiming “To express the sense of Congress that […]
Richard Sakwa, scholar and author of “Frontline Ukraine”, on the obstacles to peace in Ukraine. As the Russia-Ukraine war opens a new phase in the Donbas, scholar Richard Sakwa on the absence of diplomacy; the Western media’s veneration of Zelensky; the European Union’s self-implosion over the war; and the crackdown on dissent in both Ukraine and […]
