(This is a reprint from NewsBred) Those who used Pearl Harbour to drop atom bombs on Japan, are acting coy on what’s-the-big-deal if the old lady Nancy Pelosi has visited Taiwan. President Joe Biden acknowledges the One-China principle of the United States and says the Pentagon too tried to persuade…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) The United States is at its wits’ end to counter Russia. On its Navy Day yesterday, Vladimir Putin promised to revive the memory of Peter the Great and make Russia a great maritime power again. Now you have read , from yours’ truly, how…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) Time to tell a few things your favourite media doesn’t tell you. Did you miss the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wanting to speak to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in coming days? As always the camouflage was to exchange POWs but the…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) Why is this conflict in Ukraine seems to stretch indefinitely? Let’s hear another Slav leader, and not Putin, on the subject: “I know what awaits us. As soon as Vladimir Putin finishes his business in Sieversk, Bakhmut and Soledar, then on the second line…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) A Reuters story — “How a band of activists helped bring down Sri Lanka’s government” — deserves your attention. It tells about a Catholic Priest, a digital strategist and a popular playwright who got together in a seaside tented camp in Colombo to inject…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) Our good old Joe (Biden) went to Jeddah. He was meeting more than half his age Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) — 36 to his 79 — and hoping his host would be wet behind the ears. Maybe more pumping of oil; maybe a regional…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) We hear that US president Joe Biden is visiting Saudi Arabia this week. This is the same Biden who, in the wake of killing of journalist Jamal Kashoggi which was attributed to Saudi prince, had termed the Middle Eastern kingdom “pariah” in the bluster…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) This is 2096. “India in 21st century” is a book just out, being written by eminent historians and academicians. Karundhati Roy, whose fragility hides the steel of a rare woman, is reading a chapter — “Maha Vikas Aghadi, the MVA” — from the book…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) How far would this barbaric Udaipur beheading travel? Travel, which either happens by “narrative” or in “real world”. A few of those who set the narrative, are described thus by an elite twitterati: