https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2.jpgOpinionI remember my Harvard research supervisor, a former member of the Israeli Air Force and Holocaust survivor who knew all about suffering and war. In this context of his sensitivities on the need for global justice, I will never forget what he said....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionI remember my Harvard research supervisor, a former member of the Israeli air force and Holocaust survivor who knew all about suffering and war. In this context of his sensitivities on the need for global justice, I will never forget what he said....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionImproving the Environment Needs Urgent Election Attention: Opposition need a cleaner and more  spiritually based mindset over politically ignorant platitudes in going green Many Indian city dwellers, in particular and beyond decry the horrendous, ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionPeace in the Middle East is not only to the humane benefit of Israelis and Palestinians. But the conflict settled, sustainably between these two great people can be the lynchpin to broader peace in the Middle East, preventing oil prices going thro...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere he goes again. This time Justin Trudeau, leader of the bold Canadian democracy he describes he is thoroughly defending. One he says  he is trying to prevent from being undermined unfairly by a government he would give his eye teeth to have t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionIf there was ever a time for a sane large global actor to be in charge of the Indian government and its military, it is now. That is the steady hand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ongoing wisdom to prevent the country from descending into...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionWhat was chilling for me were particularly two sets of evidence supporting the contention that Washington is really no longer democratic. Or at the very least, it is suffering a serious democratic deficit. All of this will further remind and reinf...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionNo one knows exactly for sure an election outcome until the ballots are counted. At least that is what should be in what is called democracy. It is what India magnificently does, given the many hundreds of millions of voters that are processed  su...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe colonial physical boundaries may have disappeared for India and much of the Global South. But when it comes to delivering the international news globally, a small number of western-based and oriented news organizations essentially have a colon...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionWhat is the Happy Index, results of which were recently made public for this year and well announced seemingly with fanfare by the Western media. “From 2024, the report is a publication of the Western-based Wellbeing Research Centre at the Univers...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere seems to be no end in sight by much of the western press, even vigorously to try to sully, if not ruin India’s reputation. Those efforts are especially nowadays being pointed against the nationally popular Narendra Modi-led government, inclu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionIt is hard to imagine that Facebook, the world’s, likely most powerful social media tool and a top one in India, very recently turned 20. And its prime founder who developed it starting as a 19 year-old teenager while at Harvard University is now ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere is no great love lost between India and Canada s Trudeau government. To review, New Delhi has told Ottawa to get control over better dealing with Khalistan separatist extremists in its jurisdiction, some of whom India has labelled as terrori...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionVery stark news has been very recently reported about new mounting war tensions in the Global North. They are so serious that eventually they may impact Indians and much of the Global South: “French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday (Februa...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionRecently, S. Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister gave a keynote speech at the 7th Indian Ocean Conference in Perth, Australia about security interests to India and beyond. This major gathering attended by his Australian counterpart, Penn...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionAs someone who studied at and was a researcher at Harvard University, I am well familiar with it and any over- glorification of it as an educational “Nirvana”. It and many top US, as well as leading UK, post-secondary institutions such as Oxford t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionFormer US president, Barack Obama just cannot lay off trying to provide political “steroids” to a highly unconstructive globalist “campaign”, essentially against a huge majority of Indians who take great pride in their leader. This is starkly repr...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionHow important is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, major, stepped-up education initiatives? These include those being coherent and practical for Indians, out of a vision to make India a world leader in education. According to the World Bank, “Ed...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere are those who believe government is best through an overly, top-down patronizing approach, reflecting of themselves as a superior authority. And that democracy does not really count – or at least, that much – especially when they...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere are some who will always disdain the rich. It can get very self-destructive to a nation if it goes, too far. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi Way appears strongly to strike a balance of ensuring keeping important investment and top manageria...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere are important questions for most militaries, including the Indian one as to how best to improve the status of women in their ranks. No less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi recognized the importance of this issue and his ongoing commitment ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere have been accusations by US prosecutors backed up the FBI that Indian officials were involved in trying to get a pro-Khalistan, separatist extremist assassinated. It is extremely unfriendly  especially with an Indian government that puts a p...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionFirst, how is indenture related to India, historically. Simply speaking, this especially deals with a period, mostly in the nineteenth century when Indians were treated like “exported merchandise” by the British Empire and other empires to provide...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere are a number of political and economic shifts underway in Canada that need to be better recognized against sometimes (the present, justifiable) feelings of doom and gloom about current Ottawa on Khalistan. Rather, I will demonstrate evidence...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionAs a graduate of an applied science faculty, I have been particularly interested in evidence-based arguments. I apply this education as best as I can, especially, seriously on major issues. This includes bringing some of that thinking to writing o...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe apparently pitiful response, just the other day, by the giant of Britain’s Lloyd’s banking and insurance group on reparations on slavery should put Indians and much of the Global South in a near, if not full fury. And there seems to be no reco...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been so positively relevant on the global stage in recent years. It is hard historically to see when the country—controlled by Indians for themselves—has been so significant beyond its b...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe presumption in some political quarters is there are benefits to a zero-sum game. That there can be only one winner. For example, the weaker America and the West are, the better off much of the rest of the world is and will be. India emphasises...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThis is a large question but is no longer alarmist in the short-term as if it ever was through much of post-World War II history since some years following when Russia in 1949 got the atomic bomb. But now, with major wars in the Middle East and Eu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThere is a US-led hegemony that Indians need to be wary of as explained in a previous piece in this paper, by this author.(US led financial hegemony Oct. 6) It is a key component supporting, if not pushing US exceptionalism and, in a sense, US geo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionAs explained in a previous piece in this paper, there is a US financial hegemony. It is a key component supporting, if not pushing US exceptionalism and, in a sense, US geopolitical priorities over much of the world, including trying to do so with...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe western military, its allies and much media connected to it, and others, too often just call it collateral damage. That includes even the mass manslaughter and beyond of innocent civilians so-called by accident – as if war is usually acc...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionWhat the above title means by nothing is that a good portion of the world largely thinks nothing much, or little in the larger scheme of geopolitics about many of Canada’s international positions. Also, that Canada is doing little to meet India’s ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionAnyone with a sense of decency and a real heart must condemn the mass brutal terrorism manifested by Hamas against innocent Israelis. But how really to undermine, if not extinguish Hamas or any wannabe copycats or possible replacements of it. How ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe Five Eyes are a joint intelligence sharing network between the United States, one could say its anchor and the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. For the purposes of this article, I will also loosely describe their countries’ intelligence ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionMake no mistake about it, Hamas and only Hamas is recently responsible for carrying out the senseless slaughter of innocent Israelis. Terrorism Is something Indians have seen too much of themselves. Thus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s quick and p...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionMany, in both India and Canada, and even world-wide are now familiar with the fact that tensions between India and Canada have degenerated to worrying levels. Less certain are the specific casualties and serious dangers ahead, potentially from thi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionLa-La Land means, “ to think things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how things really are.” ( Cambridge dictionary) Following, I will argue that Justin Trudeau, Ottawa and aspects of Canadian culture are more...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionLet’s recap my earlier thoughts and facts on the US oligopoly/hegemony Even top academic studies by Northwestern and Princeton university professors declare the United States is not a democracy, but is controlled by a limited number of people and ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionDuring the G20 meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, many of the leaders, including those of the North such as Justin Trudeau visited a memorial to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi. He was a man of practical ideals on peace and non-violence ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionIs it simply by bad accident that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian Parliament applauded a Nazi while Vladimir Zelenskyy, Ukraine president was also present? The Ukraine leader unfortunately has a lot of neo-Nazi, extreme nationalist ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionI cannot think in memorable history of a worst performing leader than the current Canadian prime minister of those who spent any decent time governing the country. Though, he is someone who I still wish generally well but not to remain in his curr...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe definition of unfriendly, relates to, “a) not kind or helpful; b) not showing kind or friendly feeling; c) harmful or unpleasant…used to describe a country or government.’ (Britannica.com) From this, it would be easy for New Delhi in a g...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe famous book by Joseph Conrad, called, “Heart of Darkness”, a fiction was written in 1889. It was allegorical about the horror perpetrated by Europeans on their colonies – in this story’s case, Belgium. Further, to this, evidence has come...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe bombing of an Indian airline by pro-Khalistan separatist terrorists in 1985 was never properly fully resolved and dealt with by the Canadian domestic security police, the RCMP. One would have thought over so many decades important lessons woul...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionAnthony Blinken, US Secretary of State has come up with what some might say is a new strategic approach to America’s and the world’s geopolitical problems. He did so in a major statement on Sept 13. Unfortunately, going against world reality and s...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionLet me first clearly state that I am a Sinophile. Chinese culture and the Chinese people overcoming so much totalitarian related tragedy, historically and especially during the Mao Tse Tung latter years of that regime deserves our appreciation. Al...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionThe G20 leaders’ meeting to be hosted by India and chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is soon to be upon the world. India, through him will make a strong case to be given permanent membership status on the UN’s Security Council. However, ther...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionNight after night, it seems some rickety boat and/or one overfilled to the gills has sunk with results of human tragedy. Children, women and others unnecessarily have seen their graveyards, watery ones to which they have often died painfully and w...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/reducing-deep-suffering-in-global-south/July 17, 2024, 11:14 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/39db1cdcb864554a4abcd3d518ba1fc2-300x202.jpgOpinionIt is hard to know, as of this writing what will exactly happen with and to the new government in Niger. It is one that saw the economic and security situation so desperate in part that it overthrew and replaced the French-backed government led by...