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The Iranians announced on Sunday that they had enriched uranium to the 20 percent level, putting them just a few days away to being able to spin up uranium to bomb-grade

By Andrew Sheng for Asia News Network Every day, we are told we must defend the rules-based order. But whose order? What rules? Why should we defend an order if we did not have a say in shaping? All this is in the realm of politics and geo-politics. The biggest thinker who shaped the current neoliberal […]

Uranium stockpile has grown to more than 18 times limit laid down in 2015 deal

A media report published in 2005 by one of the leading dailies serves as a grim reminder of how the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami government pushed the country’s power sector to an unprecedented low. Titled – “Three records of failures in the power sector” – the report laid bare the sordid tale of this sector that holds the... Read more »

One thing left totally out of negotiations is Tehran’s conventional weapons capabilities

In an opinion piece published in PassBlue on 15 March 2022, historian Stephen Schlesinger asked, "Where is the UN's Guterres?" as Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine has been dominating the w

By Sarala Fernando Before the present crisis engulfed Ukraine most Sri Lankans would have been hard pressed to find Ukraine on the map despite its huge territory and ancient civilization (603,628 km2 , making it the second largest country in Europe after Russia; the territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC according to […]

The battle of narratives is very much a part of modern warfare, with real time coverage of news

The battle of narratives is very much a part of modern warfare, with real time coverage of news

How far can the UN go in resolving US-Russia tensions?...