Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Why Iran Can Be Trusted

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The following is an excerpt from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s article on Project Syndicate. “Since the early 1990’s, one prediction after another regarding how close Iran was to acquiring a nuclear bomb has … Continue reading →

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Devyani’s Nannygate

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa A bureaucrat of the Indian Foreign Service, Devyani Khobragade, was arrested by US diplomatic security and DNA swabbed and strip and cavity searched by US Marshals in Manhattan, New York for allegedly committing … Continue reading →

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Benghazi Emails

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The White House released 100 pages of emails pertaining to talking points preparation for members of Congress about the Benghazi attacks. Ambassador J Christopher Stevens was determined to have most likely died of … Continue reading →

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United States: Comment On The 2013 State Of The Union

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to the joint session of the United States Congress on February 12, 2013. He laid out his policy agenda for his second term in office … Continue reading →

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الأمة, امت, Ummah

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa ما شاء الله, خدا بخواهد, Mashallah أتعهد بالولاء لأمة واحدة تحت الله مع الحرية والعدالة للجميع (Arabic). من عهد وفاداری به یک ملت تحت خدا با آزادی و عدالت برای همه است. (Persian). I pledge allegiance … Continue reading →

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NASA’s One Billion Dollars For Commercial Space

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The purpose of this copyrighted proprietary Transformations, LLC document is two fold: (a) provision technical advisory services to the three (3) contractors on the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) contract and … Continue reading →

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Romney In Jerusalem

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the tradition of all Christians after The Christ and since the rise of Islam to want to be Jewish, treading on … Continue reading →

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Islamists And America

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ‏@RT_Erdogan Onun hatırasına yönelik böyle bir eser, ülkemizde ne yazık ki olmadı, ilk defa oluyor. 1776 ‏@1_776  @RT_Erdogan İbn Haldun, Tunus ve Kahire, Arap Bahar Mohammed Morsi of Hasan al-Banna’s pan-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood … Continue reading →

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What About Iran?

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Obama White House these days is, literally, Judeo-Christian. The inclusive unitarian Christian black and white president – akin to Bill Clinton, the Democrat before him – is befriending his Jewish colleagues, and … Continue reading →

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A “Magnitsky Act” For America?

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Sergei Magnitsky) Awash in cash, the world is, once again, corrupt. In 2009, a Russian anti-corruption lawyer named Sergei Magnitsky, allegedly died of torture in Russian jails for reporting and fighting against Russian … Continue reading →

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