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Former DEA top official accused of laundering cartel money

Bangladesh, Dec. 12 -- Federal agents recently raided the home of Paul Campo. Campo is no street criminal; a former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official, once responsible for ov... Read More


Washington has just buried the postwar West

Bangladesh, Dec. 10 -- When Ulrike Franke, senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says that the new US National Security Strategy (NSS) “officially buries the old transatlan... Read More


US-EU with Saudi help bring IMEC route back to challenge China

Bangladesh, Dec. 6 -- The “revival” of the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) has been curiously underreported, despite its geopolitical claims and grand rhetori... Read More


EU-Mercosur trade agreement and its challenges

Bangladesh, Dec. 3 -- Brazilian President Lula da Silvas recent announcement that the Mercosur–European Union (EU) trade agreement will be signed on December 20 is a diplomatic milestone. What i... Read More


India-France paves path to de-NATOizing Indo-Pacific

Bangladesh, Nov. 29 -- The new India–France defense pact marks a quiet shift in the Indo-Pacific. Framed as joint research and development (R&D), aimed at co-producing cutting-edge munitions and... Read More


Europe sabotaging Trumps Ukraine peace deal

Bangladesh, Nov. 27 -- As Kyiv is signaling it might agree to a peace deal (with only “minor details” to be sorted out), one might have hoped for a fresh start in resolving the protracted ... Read More


Trumps NATO upgrade for Saudi Arabia rewriting Middle Easts balance of power

Bangladesh, Nov. 22 -- Washingtons decision to designate Saudi Arabia as a “Major Non-NATO Ally” (MNNA) has already made headlines, but much of its deeper geopolitical logic remains underr... Read More


Trumps military buildup triggers China–Russia countermoves

Bangladesh, Nov. 19 -- The arrival of a major US aircraft carrier strike group in the Caribbean this week has sent shockwaves across Latin America, bringing back a new version of the Monroe Doctrine i... Read More


Afghanistans opium collapse exposing 40 years of US intelligence complicity

Bangladesh, Nov. 13 -- Afghanistans opium fields are withering, and with them a major pillar of the global narcotics economy. According to the latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) s... Read More


North Korea has revived Jakarta-Pyongyang ties

Bangladesh, Nov. 6 -- Indonesias Foreign Minister Sugiono landed in Pyongyang this October. It was the first top-level visit from Jakarta in over 12 years. The timing was no accident: it coincided wit... Read More