Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
In light of JD Vance's stirring speech in Munich, we're republishing Ramesh Thakur's article from July, when Trump announced Vance as his VP pick – and thus spelled the long-overdue end of the neoconservative movement.
In a wholly unexpected but welcome development, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has released a report highlighting the risks to women of trans 'women' in female sport, says Ramesh Thakur.
A top Hezbollah figure recently admitted: "We’re investing in protests in Western countries, especially among college students." Hamas's secret propaganda network has been tolerated for too long, says Ramesh Thakur.
As a diversity pick thrice over – female, black, South Asian – with no popular mandate, Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate for the modern Democratic Party, says Ramesh Thakur. The election is Trump's to lose.
Europeans' tolerance has been tested to breaking point, says Ramesh Thakur. They would like their countries, stolen from them in fits of absentmindedness, back, thank you very much.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's comparison between Israel and Hamas is utter nonsense, says Ramesh Thakur. Where to even begin when a man in such a critically important office betrays such jaw-dropping ignorance?
Ramesh Thakur, who as a senior UN official helped set up the ICC, says he will regret his involvement if the court goes ahead and allows the arrest of Israel's leaders.
Advocating for the recognition of COVID-19 dissenters by the Nobel committee, Ramesh Thakur is not holding his breath as he casts a critical eye back over previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
Across the world, the official Covid inquiries are a sham, says former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur. We need real inquiries if we're going to restore people's faith in public authorities.
The spreading dominance of the woke agenda was a key enabling environment in 2020 for the Covid interventions, says Ramesh Thakur. "Wokism is a war on Western civilisation and empirical science."
