Category: Current Affairs

With “allies” like these, who needs enemies?

This analysis of�attitudes that the communist parties have�towards vital matters of national interest reveals why they are probably the most dangerous�element in the current political landscape… Excerpts from Red Star over South Block�(emphasis mine)...

Must we separate religion from politics?

This post was inspired by Hrishi and Dnyanesh’s comments�which I am reproducing below. The point raised by Hrishi was (essentially) that democracy and politics (of the modern kind) is incompatible with religion… *** Comment...

On Iran, Anti-Semitism and the Twelfth Imam

Yesterday, I was alerted to this news-report from earlier this week in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was quoted as saying: the state of Israel will cease to exist with or without the involvement of his country....