India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the “terrorist attack”, most of whose victims were Muslim, has largely been accepted by Western governments without evidence.
False flags abound nowadays. You may recall that we were told that the most deadly rocket ever fired by Hamas killed only Palestinians in a hospital compound, while the most deadly rocket ever fired by Hezbollah killed only Druze children. I have at present an open mind about what occurred in Kashmir.
It is however certain that tearing up the Indus Waters Treaty is a long term Modi goal. The Indus supplies 80% of Pakistan’s agricultural water, and the supply is already insufficient, with disastrous salination of the lower reaches of the river as the sea creeps into the areas once occupied by the mighty flow. I visited the area of lower Sind five years ago and witnessed the fields encrusted with white salt.
India controls the upstream flow into Pakistan of approximately 70% of the total water of the Indus, about 55% of all of Pakistan’s agricultural water.
In September 2016 in response to earlier violence in Kashmir, Modi initiated his slogan “Blood and water cannot flow together” and threatened to cut the Indus supply. He increased India’s out-take from the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej tributaries and restarted the Tulbul canal project. In both 2019 and 2022 while campaigning in Haryana, Modi made strong speeches threatening to cut off the water “wasted on Pakistan”.
In 2023 Modi issued formal notice to Pakistan of India’s desire to renegotiate the Indus Waters Treaty and repeated this in 2024 when Pakistan did not respond. On both occasions India cited “counter-terrorism” as one of three reasons for review (the others being environmental protection and hydro-electric generation). As counter-terrorism can scarcely be linked to agricultural water allocation, this illustrates Modi’s grandstanding approach.
Modi does not have the physical power to stop the Indus, but does have the ability short term to divert more of the river to Indian irrigation and storage, sufficient to cause some immediate distress in Pakistan. Indian media are already thrilled with the idea. But long term major rebalancing of the river water allocation would require substantive new infrastructure in India. Such projects however would be both economically viable and likely wildly popular with Modi’s Hindutva base both for promoting Indian development and for damaging Pakistan.
In 2019, Modi revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution which gave special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir, incorporating them into India proper. He did this despite the Constitution stating it could only be done with the support of the “Constituent Assembly of the State”. That body no longer existed, having been replaced by a “Legislative Assembly”. Modi used another Constitutional provision to replace “Constituent Assembly” with “Legislative Assembly”, which seems fair enough. But having suspended the Legislative Assembly, he then claimed that its powers were now vested in the Governor, a Modi appointee.
Modi then agreed with himself to remove the autonomy of Indian Kashmir – a move that had no significant support among its 97% Muslim inhabitants and was accompanied by a ferocious crackdown – indeed, lockdown – and the destruction of its once thriving tourism industry. He simultaneously repealed another provision preventing non-Kashmiris from buying property in the region. Modi himself is therefore very much the cause of heightened ethnic, political and religious tension in Kashmir.
It is generally recognised that the situation of Kashmir, partly in India and partly in Pakistan with a small portion in China, and the Indian part occupied by deeply dissatisfied Muslims, is a result of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947. But in fact British responsibility for the disaster of modern Kashmir goes back a hundred years further than that, to 1846.
Kashmir was part of the Durrani Afghan Empire from 1758 until 1819, when it was captured by the Sikh Empire of Maharajah Ranjit Singh. Singh was always careful to place Muslim Governors over Muslim lands, including from the Durrani family itself. He allied with the British during the First Afghan War, and sent troops, including Kashmiri levies, to aid the British invasion in 1839. However after Ranjit Singh’s death and civil war over the succession, the British attacked the Sikh Empire to “restore stability”. Following the Battle of Sobraon, the British annexed the land between the Beas and Ravi rivers, while by the Treaty of Amritsar of 1846 the British sold Jammu and Kashmir to the former Sikh wazir, Gulab Singh, for 50 lakhs of rupees.
Gulab Singh was a particularly murderous character who had played an extraordinarily Machiavellian role in the Sikh court of Ranjit Singh and his immediate successors, and had of course looted from the Sikh treasury the money he paid to the British. So he paid the British with stolen money for land the British had just stolen.
This is how the extraordinary situation arose that the Muslim territories of Kashmir and Jammu had a Hindu ruler (Gulab Singh was a Hindu Dogra). That anomaly was the direct cause of the disastrous division of the territory by the British in the Partition 100 years later.
It is extremely frequent that today’s conflicts are caused by the actions of the British Empire reverberating down and continuing their evil over generations. It is equally frequent that it is very hard to find analyses that explain the truth behind the conflicts.
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“the disastrous British partition of India of 1947”. Bollocks. The partition was the work of the Hindus and Moslems in the face of British opposition. In the end all the British could do was ratify what the two sides had agreed and march off.
Why was Jinnah so keen on a separate Pakistan? Amongst other reasons, because one of the Hindu politicians (Nehru, perhaps?) had told him that Congress’s sweet words about the treatment of Moslems in a united India were intended to be forgotten the moment independence was achieved.
It’s a strangely racist cast of mind that allows no agency to the Moslems and Hindus of India and claims that the partition was “British”. Get a grip, man! Brown fellas weren’t mere children.
Co-pilot to Murray’s defence.
“The claim that the Kashmir conflict stems from the British partition of India in 1947 is widely discussed in historical and political analyses. Several sources provide evidence supporting this perspective:
– Britannica explains that the partition of British India led to massive population transfers and communal violence, shaping the geopolitical tensions that persist today, including the Kashmir dispute.
– JSTOR highlights how the partition left Kashmir in a precarious position, with its ruler initially seeking independence before acceding to India, triggering conflict with Pakistan.
– Springer discusses how the partition led to the migration of Kashmiri Muslim refugees, reinforcing the argument that the division of British India had lasting consequences for the region”.
I do not know if the views on partition are bollocks or not but I would like to see more evidence for the assertion that “in the end all the British could do was ratify what the two sides had agreed and march off”. Defending the British Empire down to the last Imperialist was the line usually taken.
@Crispa: Could you provide sources? JSTOR is an aggregator, not a publisher. It’s like saying: “Google highlights that….”. Springer publishes over 3,000 journals. Specifics please. Moreover, because something is published doesn’t mean it’s true.
There were no population movements in Kashmir in 1947 (the Pathan onslaught on the Valley was an armed invasion, not a population movement).
I’m sure if you were in charge in 1947, then the predominantly Muslims regions would never be allowed to become independent, and everyone would be happy and lived in peace to this day, right?
The source is Co-Pilot (Microsoft A1) from asking is there evidence to support “It is generally recognised that the situation of Kashmir, partly in India and partly in Pakistan with a small portion in China, and the Indian part occupied by deeply dissatisfied Muslims, is a result of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947”? No deep dive on my part following.
Re imperialism, Britain held on to India as long as it could resisting independence and quelling one movement after another, latterly under Churchill for example in 1942 – 43 and with millions dying from the British induced Bengal famine in 1943. As late as 1945 it was still putting down a revolt by its own “Royal Indian Navy”.
World War 2 was the main cause of Imperialist Britain’s having to let go of its India prize facilitated by the election of the Attlee Labour which made the best of a job that should have been done years before.
All those references undoubtedly support the point that the Partition was a humanitarian disaster, but none of them the point that it was a humanitarian disaster caused by the British administration. Nor are opposing Partition and “defending the British Empire down to the last Imperialist” mutually exclusive. There were plenty of Indians who blamed Ghandi for Partition.
@Crispa: Apologies for my unnecessarily snarky tone, but I agree with @dearieme here – deprivation of agency aside, claiming that the 1940s British policies are at the root of tensions between India and Pakistan is a huge simplification. It ignores the well-attested fact that Muslim separatism in India was a reaction to the rise of Hindutva fundamentalism in the 1920s and 1930s, which in turn was aligned with and inspired by (but not created by) European (and to a smaller degree Far Eastern) nationalisms of the times. The deteriorating communal relations in the 1930s and especially the 1940s weren’t at all the work of the British who had hoped to keep the Empire intact until the very last moment.
That decisions taken in the 1940s have effects today – well, so does the Norman conquest.
“The deteriorating communal relations in the 1930s and especially the 1940s weren’t at all the work of the British who had hoped to keep the Empire intact until the very last moment”. Exactly, British Imperialism thrived on divide and rule in order to keep the British Empire intact until the very last moment. (See also my previous reply).
Sure, the British benefited from the communal divisions and rivalries up to a point, but that doesn’t mean that they wanted a partition or even that they supported the Muslim League and the Hindutva fundamentalists. Neither group was particularly helpful to the preservation of the Empire at that stage. Re ‘preserving Empire until the very last moment’ – FWIW, that would have looked like the British fighting and having to be overthrown by a rebel force, which is obviously precisely what did not happen. There are enough cases of something coming much closer to that (the French in Vietnam and Algeria, the Portuguese in Angola and elsewhere, even the Dutch in Indonesia).
It has become fashionable to blame the British Empire for all the ills affecting its former possessions even decades after it effectively ceased to exist.
Richard Hough’s biography of Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, makes it clear that partition wasn’t the British plan, it was head of the Muslim League Mohammed Ali Jinnah, described as being ‘cold, arrogant, vain and inflexible’, who insisted on a separate state for Muslims. Muslim/Hindu riots and massacres were happening before independence, particularly in the Punjab.
The British had spent a hundred years using their divide and conquer strategy and stoking ethnic tensions throughout the whole of India and you somehow think that come independence day that would be forgotten and treated as a British lark? Partition was an inevitable outcome of the colonial strategy used by Britain and ‘in opposition to Britain’s is a bit of a fantasy. The truth of it is Britain couldn’t give a shit about it and just wanted it over and done with, hence the million ensuing deaths from partition. If we were so innocent, what was operation legacy about?
One point is missing. The massacre on the day of Vance’s visit bears an uncanny resemblance to the 2000 Chittisinghpora massacre, which occurred on the eve of Clinton’s visit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2000_Chittisinghpura_massacre&oldid=1219625808 (deliberately an older version as the article recently got a lot of whitewash).
A “previously unknown group claiming responsibility” is a classic telltale sign that it was done by a new actor here, to avoid denials from established groups. I’m quite certain it was the Indian security establishment, or certain factions within it. It is hardly the case that random people in Kashmir can easily access weapons, ammunition, and military training — let alone have the necessary planning skills. Everything appears to have been designed to provoke maximum outrage within India and to provide Modi with a convenient argument for Vance, just as it was the case in 2000.
As an aside, it is worth noting that the principal sources of income in Kashmir are the export of agricultural produce to India and inbound tourism from India. All genuine local militant groups are careful not to damage these interests, as doing so would result in a loss of crucial community support. Their attacks are almost exclusively directed at the Indian Army, the Border Police, and, most commonly, the Indian paramilitary forces, who are present in the Valley in vastly greater numbers than Indian tourists and have been ruling the region with an iron fist since 1990.
See the film ‘Kashmir Files’ and update your knowledge about terrorism in Kashmir It is not just a film but real story and the main actor himself is a Kashmiri whose family underwent the horror.
ROTFL! Do you get all your knowledge from fiction films? Here, by the most Hindu nationalistic of Bollywood directors? Thank you, but no, thank you.
I prefer to rely on what I saw and learned during my two years lived in Kashmir.
I lived there my life compared to your two years and you are absolutely wrong, yes its apolitical playground but go deep into extremist mindset of Pakistan. In India you can stand and blame the establishment and Army without fear try doing the same thing to anybody else you will get a good taste of your karma. Even if you blame the establishment and army in your country you will see the results but in India those speech are free that creates people like you who spit in the very dish that feeds you.
“most deadly rocket ever fired by Hamas killed only Palestinians in a hospital compound, while the most deadly rocket ever fired by Hezbollah killed only Druze children”
Is the first that hospital in Gaza City on 17th Oct 2023? Al-Ahli hospital. It seems that both sides were firing rockets over by the hospital just prior. The Palestinian authorities seem to have exaggerated the likely fatalities by about five-fold or ten-fold. But then never showed the shrapnel that should have been present.
The second one must be the football field in the Golan Heights, 6 miles from a Lebanon launch site. Wth an Israeli base inbetween, too close for Iron Dome to work for that launch site. Israel apparently doesn’t defend some settlements as much as others. They showed photos of the shrapnel, a rocket of the type Lebanese were firing. But not independently verified for some reason.
Re: ‘most of whose victims were Muslim’
According to multiple sources, all but one of the victims were Hindu. This checks out, as most of them seemingly came from majority Hindu states in India. After initially claiming responsibility, ‘The Resistance Front’ (reportedly an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba) now deny it, which is what tends to happen when small terrorist groups realise that, to quote Admiral Yamamoto, all they’ve done is to awaken a sleeping giant. I’m going with the attack being genuine*.
P.S. It’s Article 370, not 270, that gave special status to J&K.
* Assuming you haven’t already, anyone who would like to read about a (very likely) false flag attack can do so here:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/the-salisbury-poisonings-episode-was-all-staged/page/6/#post-103404
Indeed. Most of the sources I read are Indian, so may be seen as biased. However, although Aljazeera doesn’t say anything about the religion of the victims, most of those in the following list would have been Hindu:
“The tourists killed were almost all civilians, and an Indian Navy officer from the northern state of Haryana on his honeymoon.
A 68-year-old former banker from Pandurangapuram in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, who was visiting the region with his wife, was also killed. The deceased also included a realtor from the southern state of Karnataka, an accountant from the eastern state of Odisha, a cement dealer from Uttar Pradesh in the north, and a Gulf returnee from the southern state of Kerala.
“One foreign national, a man from Nepal, was among those killed.
Maybe Modi has a hatred of the Muslims – the way, Erdogan has of the Kurds.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/07/745712/waqf-bill-attack-indian-muslims-also-indian-constitution-mp
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/04/745547/India-parliament-passes-Waqf-bill-opposed-Muslims-Gandhi-Shah
Thae actions of Modi are to be weighed up with the actions the west has granted Netanyahu.
His alliance with Israel and his actions is clearly reflected on what he is now putting on Kashmiris. He has seen that international laws and agreements can be ignored and bypassed with constitutional rigmarole. He is trying to put Kashmir into the Gaza framework where he has seen western ignorance to genocide overule international law.
I detest Modis racial and religious bias, as well as his fascist actions against his own people who suffer from massive environmental damage, as well as his hyst on Kashmir.
Thanks to Craig for another great article on a current issues and false flag event.
You guys are double standard when it comes to you its correct and when its others you cry foul go and do what you can we dont give a shit about anyone.
Your article on Kashmir and Indus is partial. Down the History Kahmir was part of India and of Hindu tradition. There were many Hindu scholars in Kashmir, and it was a seat of Knowledge, Hindu philosophy and literature. Saint Shankaracharya visited Kashmir, and even now there is temple in Kashmir for him. In those days not a single Muslim was there in this region. Please go through the history of Kashmir (not a British version) and update your knowledge.
That is an Israeli style argument for claiming land based on the position of peoples a very long time ago. Of course nearly all of the subcontinents Muslims were Hindus or Buddhists, or local religions, before Islam came to the sub continent..
@Craig, the guy can’t even tell history from mythology… For him, where a mythical sage is believed to have visited, must be India. Because what else. I doubt he’ll understand it when told that Kashmir was never part of India. It wasn’t part of British India either. It wasn’t part of anything before that. A Westphalian state named “India” came to existence only recently anyway – the sovereign state called India exists for barely 78 years and is one of the younger countries in the world.
@Ramadoss – Don’t you think that it’s because Kashmir was a seat of knowledge that its inhabitants decided to switch religions? Well, they held on for almost two centuries after the last philosophical treatise of Kashmir Shaivism was written. The Hindu priests and their rites must have been so boring that when one day a Muslim mystic Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani came to the Valley, most people soon converted to Islam.
I’m sure Ramadoss knows that there was no unified nation state of ‘India’, but it existed as a civilisation and cultural area. Certainly a number of cultures outside of India had an idea of India as an entity. As for your remark essentially positing that Islam is objectively superior to Hinduism, I wonder if it is to be taken as trolling or as genuine chauvinism. It definitely didn’t hurt the efforts of Hamadani and others that state power in Kashmir had been seized by a Muslim dynasty, which, accordingly, promoted and privileged Islam. As for Ramadoss’ main argument, I agree with Craig, of course – whatever past events have produced the present situation, the current population has a right to self-determination.
@F. Foundling: I’m a non-religious person and religious fanaticism of any flavour gets on my nerves.
The Kashmiris fight for a state independent from India in the modern political sense, not in a geographical or cultural sense. Although, in colloquial speach people to this day “go to India” when talking about a travel outside the state; the phrase is used by Muslims and Hindus alike both in the Valley and in Jammu. There’s a strong, very strong desire of self-determination; however, it’s an open question whether sovereignty would at all be viable given the population differential (13m vs 1.5b), a single trading partner (India), strategic location, territorial claims of three very powerful neighbours (including China), and lack of sea/ocean access. Rights vs reality.
Tell china that Taiwan has right to self-determination. I guarantee you will never ask anything again in life if they let you live. But India is good in a way India should go china way in treating people like you
Whilst debating the pros and cons of these two sh*thole countries let’s not forget Imran Khan and remember integration, diversity and equality is not something these people want, regardless of what the wokerati in the UK would have us believe.
Just sayin’
Can i ask why are you people are interested in reading and writing about sh*thole country you have double standard narrow mindset and having habit of poking your biased nose in others matters. Or you are always looking for sh*thole for satisfaction.
For a sensitive impression of the depths to which the once idyllic and peaceful region of Kashmir has been brought down, primarily by outside forces, I recommend Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown (2005). Rushdie is himself of Kashmiri Muslim origin, as is the fictional character Shalimar, symbolically a tight-rope walker.
Meanwhile…
https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-south-korea-russia-ukraine-war-34716db67af6176d0d5e0ebf1b887881
Of course, nobody serious ever thought Russia wouldn’t ask for foreign help. But it’s significant that it be formally acknowledged…
State borders are unfortunately a flexible notion. We may experience this again when Vladimir and Donald sign their deal about Ukraine.
Yet waiting for the cuckoo clock!
More than a bit embarrassing for those who have been consistently denying it.
Putin has declared a three day ceasefire for next week. I’d bet my pension on it not holding.
Pears Morgaine
You can’t expect one side (Russia) to uphold a ceasefire, when the other side (Ukraine) doesn’t – and the Neo-Nazi dictator Zelensky has recently proven that he can’t abide by the the rules of a ceasefire.
I suppose not abiding by a ceasefire – runs down the backbones (if they have any) of Nazi/Zio-Monsters – the IOF broke one as well.
That’s if you believe Putin is serious about the ceasefire in the first place. He claims to be doing it for ‘humanitarian’ reasons but if he were really concerned he wouldn’t be directing attacks at civilians in the first place.
Do you get a bonus for every time you use the word ‘Nazi’?
Pears Morgaine
You know fine well – that the Neo-Nazi’s/Nato meet in civilian buildings to do their military business, by doing this they are endangering their own citizens lives – its entirely legitimate to strike such military targets.
On human rights.
“The European Court of Human Rights has found the Ukrainian government guilty of committing human rights violations during the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre, in which dozens of Russian-speaking demonstrators were forced into the city’s Trade Unions House and burned alive by ultranationalist thugs.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/24/ukraine-guilty-violations-union-massacre-court/
I know full that the presence of NATO/Ukrainian officers is often invented to excuse strikes on civilian buildings. If you believe such sources so many senior NATO officers have been killed or captured that there can’t be many left. Repeated attempts to knock out Ukraine’s power grid is directed at civilians. The military have their own resources.
The Grayzone is hardly unbiased but the occupants of the Trades Union building were dropping petrol bombs on the crowd below. It was one of these that most probably started the fire.
From the ECHR report:-
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At 4.10 p.m., the first victim, Mr Ivanov…., a pro-unity activist, was shot in the stomach. He was taken to hospital but died during surgery. There is video footage showing a pro-Russian activist wearing a balaclava standing by the police and firing numerous shots from a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle, with no reaction from the police….
At around 5.45 p.m., numerous shots were fired towards anti-Maidan activists from a hunting gun by someone standing on a nearby balcony. It was around that time that Mr Zhulkov, Mr Yavorskyy and Mr Petrov were killed.
Anti-Maidan protesters took refuge in the Trade Union Building, a five-storey building facing the square. They barricaded themselves inside the building using wooden pallets from the tent camp and wooden and plastic furniture found in the building.
They took with them a fuel-powered electric generator, boxes containing Molotov cocktails and the products needed to make them.
Maidan activists started setting fire to the tents. A group of pro-Russian protesters on the roof of the Trade Union Building threw Molotov cocktails at the crowd below; pro-unity activists retaliated by throwing Molotov cocktails at the building. Gunshots were reportedly fired from both sides. Despite numerous calls to the fire brigade, which was less than 1 km away, the fire service regional head instructed his staff not to send any fire engines to Kulykove Pole without his explicit order. At 7.45 p.m., a fire broke out in the Trade Union Building. The fire extinguishers in the building did not work. The police called the fire brigade, to no avail. Some of the people in the building…. tried to escape by jumping from the upper windows.
A number of people fell to their deaths, Video footage shows pro-unity protesters making makeshift ladders and platforms from a stage in the square and using them to rescue people trapped in the building. Other video footage shows pro-unity protesters attacking people who had jumped or had fallen.
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The ECHR ruling is critical of the authorities only for their apparent lack of adequate response.
“More than a bit embarrassing for those who have been consistently denying it.”
Quoting a lack of evidence as a basis for scepticism is not a denial. Whilst those who like to support their arguments with evidence-free assertions, don’t have a problem with the total lack of anything resembling proof,most people want more than a bit of Gell-Mann amnesia to make up their minds about something reported in the media.
Who was denying it? Everyone sane was saying NK has observers and maybe some groups of troops in second and third line miles away from fighting learning modern war. A few companies worth of troops, maybe. The Ukronazi delusions of there being 50.000 malnourished NK subhuman orks of which heroic Azov Aryans easily killed 300.000* is still utter male bovine droppings. No amount of pretending weak polite acknowledgement is some sort of gotcha will make it so because to this day, Banderastan failed to provide a SINGLE corpse of NK soldier or even video of them being engaged in combat to support their fantasies. Period.
*no, seriously, these clowns routinely announce shooting down of 100 drones out of 20 launched even though 10-15 targets were still hit to hide 5-10% intercept rate of best NATO air defence to not make it laughing stock of whole planet even though the world can easily see how many launchers Russia used and how many targets were hit…
North Korea and Russia denied the presence of NK combat troops for months. something the useful idiots were content to repeat.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/29/north-korean-troops-in-russia-how-will-it-impact-the-ukraine-war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNhchtq0Mo
I don’t know who in Pears’s head denied that.
Putin gave an interview to the BBC on October 24, 2024. I only have Russian BBC
https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/clyjn0yxd4yo
Perhaps they didn’t publish this in their English version.
In the first paragraph, in bold letters it says: “He did not deny their presence in Russia, but did not specify for what purpose they arrived.”
Perhaps Pears have a more trusted source expressing the opinion of the Russians, than Putin. Am I right, Pears? Those unidentified useful idiots you were talking about, are they in the same room with you now?
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I also want to note that I find your comment about the events in Odessa on May 2, 2014 disgusting.
People were throwing Molotov cocktails in both directions. The difference is that those who besieged the building could escape the fire, being in the open. While people locked in the building jumped out of the windows to save themselves, and the besieging fire throwers finished them off on the ground.
Not to forget about the deliberately delayed intervention by the authorities in the situation.
Here’s a report from your very own RT quoting flat out denials from NK and Russia at the UN.
https://www.rt.com/news/606104-north-korea-reject-troops-russia/
Sorry you found the account of the events surrounding the Trades Union building in Odesa so upsetting but I was quoting the ECHR report which was prepared after a lengthy investigation. If you think they’ve got it wrong you’d best take it up with them.
They also note that those inside the building had barricaded themselves in which would’ve impaired any attempts to escape.
You’re making now logical trick ‘substitution of concepts’, Pears.
The presence of Korean troops in Russia was not confirmed, their participation in the war in Ukraine was denied.
Korean troops were on Russian territory. Legally. Russia and Korea have an agreement on assistance and partnership. There was an old one and it was recently expanded and updated.
If Ze doesn’t like it, then that’s Ze’s problem.
If Ukrainian troops came to Russia and met Korean troops here, in Russia, then that’s the problem of the Ukrainian troops.
Treaties, you know, the things like: Ukraine would like to be a party to a NATO agreement, which Russia doesn’t like.
The Koreans participate, I think, in about the same way as NATO observers participate on the side of Ukraine, in Ukraine. Nearly the same interaction, according to which Ukrainian troops undergo training in the US and Britain.
Everyone is trying to gain valuable experience in waging a modern war, and given the US position, I’m not surprised that Kim Jong-Un took advantage of the opportunity. I think he’d also be interested in receiving Russian developments in hypersonics.
As for Odessa, that’s exactly what I expected from you – stupid Russians climbed into the building, barricaded themselves and set themselves on fire. You are a disgusting pro-Ukrainian propagandist.
Melrose.
Ah, AP news.
Creating the news seems about right.
“Associated Press (AP) is a “non-profit” news agency headquartered in New York City. Together with Reuters and AFP, it is one of three agencies that creates the majority of news distributed in all other corporate media.”
“In 2022, AP assigned more than two dozen journalists to cover climate issues, in the news organization’s largest single expansion paid for through “philanthropic” grants, from the Rockefeller Foundation and four other foundations, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Quadrivium, and the Walton Family Foundation to “help them achieve their goals”. ”
https://www.wikispooks.com/wiki/Associated_Press
Congrats on your very astute scrutiny.
Did you know that AP News has this nickname in the business “KingdomofAmerica”
But they are almost banned from the Press Room in the White House. Vanitas vanitatum…
Melrose.
My apologies, I found another source – and now agree with you, that NK troops did help Russia in Kursk.
“Of course nearly all of the subcontinents Muslims were Hindus or Buddhists, or local religions, before Islam came to the sub continent.”
“Came to the sub continent” is a rather anodyne way of putting it. Islam “came to” India in the same way as the Nazis “came to” Eastern Europe and the Spanish “came to” South and Central America. They weren’t tourists.
“Islam “came to” India in the same way as the Nazis “came to” Eastern Europe and the Spanish “came to” South and Central America. ”
I think you mean “Muslims “came to” India …, however, that’s not what Craig wrote. Invaders may bring a new religion along with them, but beliefs are not responsible for the people that believe in them. Neither Judaism nor Islam are responsible for what is going in in West Asia at the moment, that is the responsibility of Jews or Muslims or both, depending on your point of view.
Writing anything doesn’t make it correct anybody can write anything, There was no Islam before 1400 yrs but Hinduism has roots beyond Christianity thousands of years at least respect the facts of oldest religion in world.
“Writing anything doesn’t make it correct anybody can write anything, ”
Of what part of “Of course nearly all of the subcontinents Muslims were Hindus or Buddhists, or local religions, before Islam came to the sub continent.” are you disputing the veracity?
Pete
Muslim rulers took political control in precisely the same way as Hindu kings did, by conquering an empire. It was the way things were done at the time. The important point is how quickly in many regions, former hindus abandoned their religion and took up Islam. It was a liberation from the oppressive character of the caste system. everybody got to be equal, and wives didn’t have to commit suttee.
This could end up being a war over water, everything else is probably background noise to hide the fact its a war over water resources. It wont be the last. Water is going to become a battle ground for a large portion of the worlds population soon, of course every excuse will be given to deny its a water grab.
Water is going to become the most valuable resource any country can have relatively soon.
I read many years ago, that wars in the future would be over water.
Thanks for providing this detailed historical context, predictab!y ignored by ruling-class media. I see you’ve upset a few empire loyalists/ western chauvinists. Confirms you’ve penned another good un.
Try reading some history. Nothing to do with loyalty to an entity which no longer exists.
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-man-who-divided-india-an-insight-into-jinnahs-leadership-and-its-aftermath-2/
Of course, nobody could accuse you of being an apologist for western imperialism.
The link takes you to a review of a book evidently very popular at the time and pitched at undergraduate level The last bit in brackets in this quote seems to be the important point for understanding the effect of British imperialist policy.
“He (Jinnah) constantly hammered into the minds of Muslims that Gandhi and the Congress party represented the interest of Hindus and that a Hindu Raj (rule) would replace the British Raj and Muslims would be reduced to slavery. This was the plank on which he raised the bogy of ‘Islam in danger’ if the Muslims did not act to demand a separate state of Pakistan. This was also the basis for his Two-Nation Theory, which stated that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations and that they could never live together as one (totally negating the fact that they had lived together for over a thousand years before the advent of British rule)”.
Many have rightly pointed out that the ruling scum in Britain regard most of the population in Britain as if they were “the natives”. Terms such as “heathens”, “peasants”, etc., are also used, and the phrase “members of the public” often serves the same purpose. Much of British empire culture is very much alive. Various roads track back to India and the colonial administration there.
Fingerprinting was used in India under Edward Henry, who was inspector general of police in Bengal, and then in London when he became head of the metropolitan police there.
In other news, “activists” in Britain are demanding more electricity smart meters, and they’re pretending this is a leftwing demand to combat “excessive profits” and is apparently all about making sure people are warm in the winter.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/smart-meter-warning-energy-heating-hot-water-b2741803.html
The World Bank’s chief economist said in 2017 that India had “the most sophisticated ID programme in the world” and that it should be adopted around the world:
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=442948
@Brian Red: Yeah, on paper only. Do you want an Aadhaar number/identity? Bring any photo, give the name you want, and don’t forget of a grey envelope. The programme may be sophisticated, but it’s still India.
From Your link: “A good proportion may not even be aware they have such a meter, or if they do, won’t know they are about to be switched off,” she said.”
Well, that’s bollocks for a start. Anyone who has a meter with day and night readings has been bombarded constantly by their energy provider for months, urging them to replace their meter with a smart meter. Some suppliers have even been offering bribes, sorry incentives in the form of money off the next electricity bill. No doubt they will soon be given the power to come and replace the meter without the householder’s say so. The whole article is a fine example of shroud-waving. I very much suspect that one of the main thrusts behind changing to smart meters is to allow the electricity companies to carry out load-shedding when we replace reliable sources of electricity like gas with unreliable ones like wind and solar. No doubt you will be able to go on an “uninterruptible tariff” if you pay a bit extra, meaning that it’s some other poor sod who is switched off when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow in the winter. I wonder if my grandmother’s old oil lamp will work with vegetable oil.
Writing anything doesn’t make it correct anybody can write anything, There was no Islam before 1400 yrs but Hinduism has roots beyond Christianity thousands of years at least respect the facts of oldest religion in world.
China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have offered to step in and try and defuse the situation between India and Pakistan – and to host talks between them, in the hope of reaching a peaceful agreement.
Neither of them will be able to do much. Too much money, too many careers, too many political programmes depend on the militarisation of Kashmir that no Indian leader or military commander will willingly agree to any sort of reduction. A million troops? It’s a money-making machine on an unimaginable scale.
What you mean is its your opinion, that none of the three can do anything.
Your idea that Saudi Arabia has competence, experience, or even willingness to mediate in any conflict is, well, interesting. Where did you get it from? By observing Saudi successes in Yemen?
I won’t even tell you how risible such a proposal would be in India – that of all countries, it would be Saudi Arabia to decide whether India should keep its “most sacred Hindu land” – or surrender it to another Muslim state. Your political genius equals Trump’s!
Kacper.
Your naivety is astonishing – one of the most nefarious countries on the planet Qatar – often hosts opposing sides in conflicts, the Americans, Russians Hamas etc, all use the nation to reach out to opposing nations and forces, in order to get around the negotiating table – Saudi Arabia is in a similar position.
I’m no fan of Saudi Arabia – but you need to look beyond the black and white picture, where you’ll find the real world – which is made up of many shades of grey.
Qatar doesn’t mediate between states. It facilitates links with fundamentalist Sunni factions (many of whom it has co-sponsored, incidentally). Don’t confuse that with mediation capacity in international territorial conflicts. Qatar’s role is a disadvantage, not advantage. As is Saudi Arabia’s.
A basic rule is that mediators must not have themselves a stake in the matter under disagreement. Whereas Saudi and Qatari organisations, closely linked with their governments, have for years funded the Kashmir insurgency.
Need to learn more about regional sensitivities.
“A basic rule is that mediators must not have themselves a stake in the matter under disagreement.”
Kacper.
There you go again with your black and white view of the world; tell me on the below, that the USA doesn’t have a dog in the fight, regardess if its in Qatar or not – then again maybe don’t tell me it might shatter your black and white ideas on things.
“The White House’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, is in Qatar to join indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on extending the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
This week, negotiators from both sides have begun meeting mediators for the first time since President Donald Trump took office on 20 January
However, it stated that it was approaching the ongoing discussions in Doha with “full responsibility and positivity”.”
@Republicofscotland: Try to re-read what I wrote. The part about Sunni militant groups.
Yet, it’s not Qatar that represents US interests in Iran.
And I strongly doubt that Pakistan would want Iran, with whom it is in a protracted cross-border conflict, to have any say about its territorial claims in AJK.
Nor Saudi Arabia, one of Pakistan’s largest creditors.
You simply don’t know regional dynamics, and it shows.
“Nor Saudi Arabia, one of Pakistan’s largest creditors.”
Kacper.
China is Pakistan’s largest creditor – yet they’ve offered their services – dog in the game?
Check whether Pakistan accepted.
And India.
Or don’t bother checking. Even a child knows it wasn’t a serious offer.
Kacper.
Why isn’t it a serious offer? some sort of credible link to back up claim would be nice, not just your gut feelings on the region.
China has ties with Pakistan, a devastating war with India, which it would surely would be, would affect the entire region. India, is a big enough and powerful enough country to get around a table with Pakistan and China in the middle – to discuss how to defuse the situation, of course we’re still in the sabre rattling stages between the two, until tempers calm down a wee bit.
A big question is what are the aims of China in Indo-Pakistani relations.
Another big question is: ‘what are the aims of Israel in indo-pakistan relations ?’
As my comment below at April 29, 14.55.
Yep. I see Israel has helped with state internet surveillance in India
https://merip.org/2023/09/india-israel-and-the-coordination-of-control-2/
and billionaire Gautam Adani has Israeli contracts
https://www.stopadani.com/adani_groups_business_with_israel
Kolomoisky and Zelensky haven’t started a nuclear conflict yet… Maybe Kashmir will come first. Meanwhile the Kushners’ man in the White House seems to be following orders to crash-ready the economy in what remains of “the West”…
The terrorists in Kashmir mainly singled out Hindu men for murder by shooting. They were Islamist terrorists based in Pakistan or POK. Modi has sworn retribution. The houses of suspects are being demolished. Pakistani citizens in India have been given notice to leave, and the manipulation of the Indus is evidently being considered. This only the beginning.
As for partition, one of the causes may have been something I read about in the UK Sunday papers many years ago: Edwina Mountbatten was dynamic in Nehru’s presence, but shrivelled when Jinnah was around. Jealousy on his part wouldn’t have helped the situation.
“India security forces have been going round Indian Occupied Kashmir and demolishing houses of anyone suspected of being a militant!
So far more than 20 houses have been demolished and the families thrown into the streets just because of some of the male members have left the country and cannot be contacted!
This is creating an atmosphere of fear among the Muslims in Kashmir as they have been at the end of the abuse by the Indian Army since the abrogation of Article 370 that remove the special status of Kashmir as a autonomous self-governing state.”
https://nitter.poast.org/IndiaToday/status/1916523034015576310#m
I think you need to get better sources on when the abuse started.
Hint: it was the late 1970s. The removal of Article 370 in 2023 changed nothing.
I hope you don’t claim that the persecution of Palestinians started in 2024.
Kacper.
And here’s me thinking it went further back than the 70’s – silly me, I’m sure you’ll post a excellent and reputable source on it.
Anyway, here’s a link on it.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/6/the-forgotten-massacre-that-ignited-the-kashmir-dispute
As for the 70 odd years, ongoing murder and genocide of the Palestinian people – I think I’ve got that one covered.
Cui bono ?
“Experts warn that the only beneficiaries of this conflict will be the arms manufacturers, Pentagon lobbyists, and Wall Street investors. Their motives are clear: keep the dollar strong, prop up the struggling US economy, and importantly, maintain tension between India and China.
Equally concerning are the growing defense ties between India and Israel,”
“As tensions between India and Pakistan escalate, the true beneficiaries may not be the countries directly involved, but the external powers with vested interests in the region. The US, Israel, and other global actors stand to profit from prolonging instability ”
https://thecradle.co/articles/india-pakistan-standoff-who-is-fanning-nuclear-flames
Stevie Boy
Not well up on this at all.
But as usual when something ‘occurs’ in the world there usually is a reason.
I know that Imran Kahn said he had nor= argument with Russia or China and a few
months later he ended up in jail.
The ISI are allegedly bought and paid for by the US.
Modi seems to be playing a similar game as Erdogan.
Attempting to keep well in with the US AND the BRICS.
He ( like very other country ) will be forced to choose only one option eventually.
I’m reasonably sure that China and Russia will keep Modi at a distance for now
until they make their minds up or have their minds made up by the US.
Two armed Nuke States is big stuff indeed.
As usual the question is:
Why is this happening now and who stands to gain?
p.s Interesting to see Starmer being consistent.
He doesn’t like poor people in the UK and neither does he like poor people in Yemen.
It’s a very heroic act from a snivelling coward.
That’s why he is a ‘Sir ‘
The US’s Pet Pooch always does as he is told.
Craig, get yoor facts straight. Almost all the people killed were Hindus, mostly men, plus a few christians. The gunmen checked directly with each person before killing only the Hindus and sparkng the Muslims, sometimes even checking their foreskin! … In yoor first paragraph yoo say it was mostly muslims killed. Even a quick glance at Wikipedia would have revealed that that is a lie. What propaganda are yoo listening to?
Not an expert on this by any means, but I don’t see why the partition of India should be considered Britain’s fault. From what I’ve read, the decisive factor appears to have been the actions and choices of Indian Muslims and Hindus themselves and the communal tensions between them. Britain apparently even preferred a united India, but even if it hadn’t, it still couldn’t have caused a partition if India’s Muslims and Hindus had acted differently. Ethnic strife, religious chauvinism and conquests are common phenomena in human societies, they were not invented by Europeans and do not need Europeans to create them. When it comes to Kashmir, the fact that Kashmir had been ruled by a Hindu before partition in no way forced India to ignore the religious composition and wishes of its population after partition. It was supposed to conduct a plebiscite in Kashmir, but it never did.
I also don’t see why the situation in Kashmir before independence should be considered an ‘anomaly’. A difference between the religion of a ruler and the majority of their subjects has arisen many times in history. Before the modern era, when neither democracy nor self-determination were widely recognised norms, such occurrences were only to be expected. It was certainly quite common for majority-Hindu territories to be ruled by a Muslim ruler – that was one major way in which Islam spread in India, including Kashmir (and outside of India, too). Viewing the opposite combination as an ‘anomaly’ seems like a double standard that reminds me of the traditional Muslim positions that a non-Muslim may convert to Islam, but not vice versa, and that a Muslim may marry a non-Muslim woman, but not vice versa.
I wish there were more people in India, Pakistan, and the West Indies who would tell the British poshos where they can stick their game of cricket…
But, isn’t it the case that Starmer and a lot of Tories are actually funded by Indians, Lord Ali purveyor of the knickers for one. Whilst the poshos play cricket the Indians fund the zionist banana republic.
Yes. But I mean people in those places who aren’t rich.
England’s most senior military commander, doesn’t want to know about Britain’s part in the genocide, nor does he want to know about how much its costing the taxpayer to keep on aiding and abetting the Zionist regime – these are vile people who should be locked up for aiding and abetting in crimes against humanity.
The chief of the defence staff – Britain’s most senior military officer – refused to answer questions yesterday about Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance flights over Gaza and intelligence sharing with Israel.
“Admiral Sir Tony Radakin declined to comment on whether the operations made him a participant in Israel’s campaign in Gaza, which is the subject of a genocide investigation by the UN’s top court.
Radakin was questioned about the operations by Declassified for more than two minutes as he walked along London’s Victoria Embankment from the Ministry of Defence to parliamentary offices at Portcullis House.
“I’m going to a public accounts committee hearing and I don’t really have time for this conversation”, the Admiral said, before refusing to engage further.
Despite heading to parliament to discuss the military’s budget, he ignored questions about how much the RAF has spent on more than 500 spy flights over Gaza since December 2023.
Two armed police officers who were escorting him then tried to block Declassified from speaking to Radakin but our questions continued.
The Admiral looked progressively unsettled as he was asked “Do you have concerns about sharing intelligence with the prime minister of a country that’s wanted by the International Criminal Court?”
Radakin, who met his IDF counterpart in Israel last year, was asked: “Are you a participant in Israel’s genocide, Admiral? Do you have blood on your hands?””
https://www.declassifieduk.org/british-military-chief-walks-away-from-gaza-spy-flight-questions/
The UK is not just a participant or merely complcit, they are a partner in the genocide.
Yes an essential partner right from the start, according to the investigations of Declassified UK. That fact has been scrupulously suppressed for over 18 months now by the rest of the British media, who continued right on vehemently condemning other countries, resistance organisations, rap bands etc.
Zoot.
Essential indeed, look how deep the ties run.
“A report says the UK’s Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has shared the contact details of counter-terrorism police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) related to Palestine Action activists’ legal cases with Israel’s embassy.
The Guardian revealed on Tuesday that Nicola Smith, the head of international law of UK’s AGO had sent an email on September 9 to Daniela Grudsky Ekstein, Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UK that included the contact details of counter-terrorism police and CPS members who had been involved in the legal cases of Palestine Action activists.
Last year, these two agencies arrested 18 Palestine Action activists who had protested in front of an Israeli weapons factory.
Lydia Dagostino who represents several Palestine Action activists has said: “The details disclosed … clearly raises questions and needs further investigation.”
“Why, for example, did the Attorney General’s Office provide the contact details for the Crown Prosecution Service, an independent body, to the Israelis? What further exchanges followed and was there discussions about ongoing criminal prosecutions?” she continued.
Readout of the exchanged emails, which have been heavily redacted, has revealed that at the very least the Israeli regime has asked the UK government to interfere in the cases.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/29/747100/UK-government-shared-contact-details-of-police,-prosecutors-with-Israel–report
A wee bit more on the above.
“This email shows that a month before my home was raided by Counter-Terror Command (SO15), the Attorney General’s Office sent SO15’s contact details to the Israeli embassy — clear foreign interference.
Did Israel ask UK police for me to be arrested to stop my journalism?”
https://nitter.poast.org/AsaWinstanley/status/1917181869117829265#m
The Guardian is extremely selective in what it decides to report. It continues to suppress the key role of the UK government and British Army in the genocide in Gaza, the thing that might one day produce ICC summonses for its centrist Labour heroes. Its coverage of the genocide has also given the Israelis the benefit of the doubt all the way through. The Guardian knows it has been an accomplice in the genocide itself so will throw out a report like this about the Attorney General to try and obfuscate its enabling role.
Declassified has shed some light on the Guardian (and BBC) coverage of Gaza
https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian-editors-private-meetings-with-israeli-general-kohavi/
This is the quid pro quo for obtaining the use of zionist antisemites to persecute people in Britain, coincidentally people who the state doesn’t like. Posing as the rescuer of poor little zionist antisemites who pose as Jews has gone from success to success. What’s a little genocide between friends?
Stevie Boy.
South Africa has stepped up its game on this.
“In a landmark legal move, South Africa has formally presented its case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, accusing Israel of serious violations of international law and human rights in the Palestinian territories, especially Gaza.
This is the first time a state has brought such a comprehensive legal challenge to Israel’s conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories before the ICJ, highlighting growing global concern over the ongoing crisis.”
https://www.rt.com/africa/616551-south-africa-presents-genocide-case-against-israel/
Is this just Pakistan, trying to preempt any possible military action by India, by getting in first with claims that a attack is on the cards, or is a genuine attack on the cards.
“Pakistan’s information minister has said Islamabad had “credible intelligence” indicating that India planned to launch a military strike against the country within “the next 24 to 36 hours.”
In a statement on social media platform X, former Twitter, in early Wednesday, Attaullah Tarar accused India of, what he called, trying to use a recent deadly terrorist attack in the Indian-administered Kashmir as a “false pretext” for potential military action against Pakistan.
He warned that any act of aggression would be met with a decisive response, holding India fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region.
The claim followed the attack in the town of Pahalgam that claimed the lives of 26 tourists.
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif had also said in an interview with Reuters on Monday that a military strike by India was “imminent.” He had stated that while Pakistan was on high alert, it would only consider deploying nuclear weapons if there was a “direct threat to its existence.””
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/30/747109/Pakistan-India-military-action-strike-Kashmir-terror-attack
Alternatively,
” … Baloch separatist forces could have carried out this operation. … the assault closely resembles the strategies employed by militant groups operating against Pakistan in Balochistan, including the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF). Baloch militants’ modus operandi, … , was the identification and killing of people from outside the region; this pattern has been consistent.”
https://thecradle.co/articles/india-pakistan-standoff-who-is-fanning-nuclear-flames
@ Craig Murray please see below links and explain what you see, I believe you are paid to write this article or you ar a fool who doesn,t know the truth and believe in rumor theory, a pen is a powerful weapon than a sword but this time its in wrong hands remember karma it will bite you one day.
https://www.rediff.com/news/report/ministers-confession-exposes-pak-as-rogue-state-india-at-un/20250429.htm
https://youtu.be/qdggfxRoOps
Even if true the ministers words prove very little in the greater scheme of things. By any realistic measure, if one, like Edmund Burke, defines terrorism as the use of violence to achieve political ends, which we may finesse as more specifically denoting the use of violence against non-combatants, then the US has sponsored more terrorism since 1945 than the rest of the world combined. The US and its lackeys would of course dispute this, but any argument advanced in support of their position can be subsumed into the famous Shakespeare quote about no one daring to call treason what it is when it doth prosper
Is Craig a communist? Anyway, even when there is no obvious war, the truth and the facts are continually compromised and twisted to suit various competing agendas. It has been said that in war, the truth is the first casualty. However, where the truth is a casualty, war is already happening. These days, a declaration of war is totally superfluous and meaningless. War and war-like struggle never ceases in the world. Apart from all else, it’s geopolitics. That means there are always higher powers directing affairs. In this case, we’re back, if we ever left, in the Great Game. Craig simply intimates, without saying out loud, that India arranged the attack in question. Of course there are even more clever ways to make suggestions, but in this case there is no evidence to suggest a false flag event. Which is not to say that it must not have been, but India need not be necessarily involved in such a false flag event. As for the comments, as far as I read them,… Even if people agree on the facts, they will predictably often not agree on what is to follow from the facts. Do we dispute that parts in the Middle East were conquered by tribes from other parts, two thousand years ago? There is no disputing that these who conquered there then were thrown out somewhat later, and were never in charge again until the 1920s. In India, the march of Islam since, say, 1400, is known. The facts since then are known, more or less. How people with opposing views base certain opinions on the facts differs, and all up there is no end of disagreement. Meanwhile, there are more powerful actors with opinions and agendas overriding these divisions, but even at the highest levels there is competition for land, water and air. Part of this competition brings to bear a propaganda war upon populations. First it is divide and rule within certain polities, but now in hot-spots divide and rule is between spheres of hegemonic influence. It is significant that few if any commentators mention the invasion of Tibet by China about 75 years ago. The West has let it be and the peoples in the West have not been particularly exercised about it. India lost some of Ladakh to China. There is a stand-off there, but that was an act of war still unresolved. This matters to India, but equally to the people in Kashmir who wish to be either independent as a nation-state or be joined to Pakistan. It is unlikely, if this issue is resolved, some day, that it will be dealt with without further bloodshed. The people who are to suffer here, apart from the combatants, would ideally study geopolitics and seek to know where they stand in the bigger scheme of things. It looks to me that the partition as it stands had better be accepted and for the people on either side of the partition, regardless of religious and/or political beliefs, to make up their minds whether they wish to be ruled by China or India, and know what will be involved for them if they would choose China, considering the geopolitical outlook. However, it is unlikely that the peoples who are slated to be in the way when push comes to shove big-time would consider their plight in a logical, rational manner. Culture, ethnicity, religious belief, ideology and tribal-nationalist concerns pitched against higher powers do not give ways except in protracted contests. That, so it looks, is what we are seeing everywhere, and I see no evidence that there will be no further escalation towards a full-scale WWIII. If the peoples in the world don’t want that, they had better sit up and take notice, and set about building new and better fences along geographical and socio-political lines which they are determined to defend. Well, good luck. I hope it works itself out without further violence.
Since it´s May 1st: In Germany it´s obviously the day of labour unions. But what is that worth in today´s world.
If you wish to participate at the celebration of the union as some representative of an NGO, club or political initiative you have to agree to certain “values” of the German labour unions, DGB:
“(…)”Unconditional solidarity with Ukraine – we recognize Vladimir Putin as the sole aggressor,” “commitment to Europe and NATO membership,” “solidarity with Israel and the civilian victims of the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip,” “commitment to the correctness of the special fund to invest in the future.” (i.e. rearmament) (…)”
As a commentator points out:
“Let’s be honest: Do you want to be in such a club and party with such people? Time to think about alternatives.”
AG
But Putin *is* the sole aggressor in the Ukraine Russia War.
Commitment to the correctness of the special fund to invest in the future.” (i.e. rearmament) (…)” is a prudent plan, faced with the aforementioned Russian aggression.
“Solidarity with Israel”? No thanks.
If you believe Russia, not Putin, is the sole aggressor then it follows that you actually fully support the zionist agenda, ie. Israel. You cannot have it both ways. Ask your handlers to explain.
Stevie Boy
No handlers have I but I do have a dedicated phalanx of anti-tankies (sic).
Poised and ready to explain why the Soviet Union was a tyranny exceeded in evil only by Mao’s China and Hitler’s Germany.
I do believe that Russia, under Putin’s hegemony, is the sole aggressor in the Russian Ukrainian War. But it doesn’t follow that I actually fully support the zionist agenda, ie. Israel.
It is pointless to attack forum members for opinions that you attribute to them, rather than those that they assert.
You appear to be conflating the old USSR and others with modern Russia !!
I guess then that you believe that Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt were just innocent observers in the Ukraine in 2014 ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
And, I guess in your world, the demonstrators in Odessa set themselves on fire ?
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-odessa-trade-union-massacre-ten-years-later/
But hey, let’s all blame Putin for all of this, it makes perfect sense doesn’t it ?
As cross border tit-for-tat shootings, continues between India and Pakistan – a strike by India on Pakistan is likely says a retired Indian military officer.
“Retired Indian Army veteran Lt. Gen. Kamal Jit Singh told RT that India will probably conduct surgical strikes to hit terrorists but is unlikely to “cross the threshold” of an all-out war. ”
https://www.rt.com/india/616610-india-responds-to-unprovoked-firing/
DRONE ATTACK ON HUMANITARIAN MARITIME MISSION TO GAZA
Last night, a vessel in a flotilla taking humanitarian volunteers and aid to Gaza came under attack by armed drones, 17 nautical miles east of Malta. The drones launched two strikes and successfully damaged the hull. An SOS was issued.
It is not clear whether all passengers and crew have been rescued. Italian maritime rescue personnel say a tugboat has been sent.
Maltese authorities do not appear to be helping much.
The vessel’s communications were knocked out. At the time of the last communication, the drones were circling.
You can read the communiqué by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition here:
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/02/freedom-flotilla-attacked-ship-in-distress-immediate-action-needed-from-maltese-government/
At 17 nm, this location is in international waters, outside of Malta’s territorial zone but within its contiguous zone.
But to be clear: all nearby ships must assist a vessel in distress. That is international maritime law.
Interestingly according to this Turkish report:
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/world/gaza-freedom-flotilla-vessel-issues-sos-after-alleged-drone-attack-near-malta-152209
* Maltese government sources have been quoted as saying the ship was 14nm from Malta
BUT
* “The vessel, currently situated approximately 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) off Malta’s coast near Hurd’s Bank, had reportedly been anchored in the area for about 12 hours before the alleged attack, according to Marine Traffic tracking data.”
17km is 9 nautical miles, which is inside Maltese territorial waters, which extend to 12 nm.
Off-topic, but indicative of how far Britain’s ruling class has come since the rape and partition of India..
“Britain’s King Charles III wrote to President Isaac Herzog last week to congratulate him on the occasion of Israel’s 77th Independence Day, and said he is praying for the return of the remaining Gaza hostages.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uks-charles-laments-immense-pain-and-suffering-of-gaza-hostages-in-letter-to-herzog/
(President Isaac famously insists that “there are no innocent civilians in Gaza”..)
To further support Craig’s priceless scoop in his previous post regarding Syria ready to recognize Israel next year, in an obvious red herring operation, the latter is now dropping bombs on the former, close to the presidential palace. What an extreme duplicity !
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-strikes-target-near-damascus-presidential-palace-in-message-to-syrian-regime/
Melrose.
Yeah I something on that, and commented on another blog about it.
Reading between the lines on this one – the proscribed terrorist outfit (HTS) head-choppers running Syria, met some resistance from the people that they are trying to ethnically cleanse – and called in the Zio-Monsters to bomb them.
“Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) administration has rejected all forms of “foreign intervention” in the country’s affairs after an Israeli strike hit a town near the capital Damascus, amid deadly sectarian violence.
The Foreign Ministry of the ruling regime issued a statement on Wednesday after the Israeli air raid killed one member of the HTS-aligned General Security and one civilian in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, southwest of Damascus.
The Israeli attack followed clashes between the regime’s militants and members of the Druze minority that have killed dozens of people in two days.
The ministry said it dismissed “all forms of foreign intervention,” but it did not explicitly mention Israel.”
Israel bombs Europe – an Israeli military plane bombed the Freedom Flotilla (which was eventually destined for Gaza) at Malta – Western governments (most are complicit on the genocide in Gaza) have stayed pretty quiet about this bombing that happened yesterday.
https://nitter.poast.org/MenchOsint/status/1918273609635680446#m
I believe it was a drone, albeit a full military drone rather than a toy drone, and in international waters off Malta.
One wonders where it flew from, who guided it and who provided the necessary intelligence.
The unholy triumvirate in action again.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/drones-hit-freedom-flotilla-ship-carrying-aid-to-gaza
Once upon a time, our gracious host was actually considering boarding this so-called Flotilla.
But all things eventually pass. Still, it’d be rather interesting to have his comments about it now…
Stevie Boy.
I think in my link it shows where it came from – a KC301H transport plane that took off from the occupied territories – in the link it shows the military transport planes route – and apparently the drone was dropped from the transport plane.
As for providing the intelligence – the Zio-Monsters, wouldn’t be short of complicit countries leaders in giving them the data required – such as Britain via Cyprus which has been sending targeting data to the Zio-Monsters from day one.
Thanks. That’s a new one for the Israelis I believe. The drone/aircraft apparently fired several times.