By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront R epublican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump has taken religious bigotry and xenophobia to a new level. He wants to close down mosques and monitor the Muslim population. His speeches are uncalled for political actions intended to further disintegrate the minority American Muslim population. The American perceptions of justice are not universally accepted everywhere. His speeches for Presidential mileage have resulted in a gloating war against Muslims. It also means that American ideas of liberty are mere empty talks. World's second largest religion cannot be practised freely in America. He also wants a database where all Muslims are ought to register their identities. Donald Trump is making shallow assumptions that America is only suffering politically and socially because of Muslims. His message had come in the wake of a deadly shooting by ISIS-inspired extremists who were involved in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Californi...

By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront The facts of history are diverted and they sometimes become misleading.  The Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which Obama visited in 2010, has become a new centre for war crimes, and the war talk is barely mentioned on the mainstream media. Let go back to 1960's and talk about the war in South Vietnam which probably killed seventy to eighty thousand people. When American President, John F Kennedy became involved in 1961, the situation had become out of control.  Kennedy authorised the use of napalm, chemical warfare, to destroy ground control and crops of poverty-stricken farmers in the government of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. It was a process of diverting the rural population in a process called ‘strategic hamlets.’  In the coming years, U.S expansionism continued with the takeover of Cuba, trying to liberate it from Spain. Then it stole Hawaii from its population and also invaded the Philippines, killing thousa...

Photo Source: Al Jazeera By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront AT THE HEART OF THE MIGRANT CRISES of our age lies a dangerous convergence of power and division, where political ambition hardens into dogma and dogma into fanaticism. The greatest burden falls not on those who wield power, but on families stripped of home, heritage, and belonging. Their journeys—fraught with uncertainty—demand resilience, hope, and often sheer luck to secure even the most basic sustenance. As The Guardian observed, ‘the refugee crisis is not only about numbers but about human dignity and survival.’ Recent conflicts have produced displacement on a staggering scale, with violence in Iraq’s Ramadi alone forcing millions from their homes. Since the beginning of 2014, fighting displaced about 2.8 million Iraqis, according to UN figures reported by BBC News. In 2013, about 40,000 South Sudanese were waiting to be transported from Sudan, where they lived in appalling conditions in Khartoum squatter camps. ...

By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Glove Upfront T here is clamour in Greece about Tsipras administration doing a mere lip service on economic changes which they loathed in election rallies, after their mandate win. In July, 2015, the bailout programme was defended by Tspiras and it has to go well with the hopes of the Greek public. But, there has been no real enthusiasm shown for tax reforms.  Rather, there has been a tax surge.  More than 60,000 Greek farmers have been asked to pay additional taxes and pre-pay at least fifty percent of next years tax. Some 70,000 businesses have to pay hundred percent tax for next year in advance. Every service employee in government service will have pension cutbacks. The Greek leaders don't only need a credible strategy which will drive them out of debt, but they also got to have an eye on their public expenditure. Most of the Greek bonds have been sold off by international banks and foreign investors, which means, that these institutio...

By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront W orld's four emerging economies, Brasil, Russia, India, and China are poised to become the leading global economies in the twenty-first century. China's decade of unprecedented growth has eclipsed Japan as the world's second-largest economy. Brasil has harnessed its resources and has become the largest economy in Latin America. India will soon become the most populated country in the world, with a young and educated workforce. Russia, for a while, has dominated its position as the world's leading energy supplier. Recent economic data on foreign direct investments, both to and from, these countries reflect the appearance of the rise of a new economic bloc on the world stage. FDI outflows from BRIC states accounted for $146 billion in 2011. This is almost 10 percent of the world's GDP output, shared by four developing countries. World Investment Report (2012) ascertains that outward FDI from developing nations by ...

                            By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront American imperialism did not begin with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Historians and journalists have traced its roots back to 1898, when the US annexed Hawaii and seized Cuba and Puerto Rico. Contemporary press accounts described how President William McKinley presided over the invasion of Spanish‑occupied Puerto Rico, a moment that symbolised America’s transformation into a global power. Exhibitions and historical features have since highlighted how the War of 1898 marked a decisive shift, with the US acquiring territories in the Caribbean and Pacific, including Guam and the Philippines, and setting the stage for its imperial reach. This expansionist logic carried forward into the 20th century. Ronald Reagan’s administration brought covert wars to Central America, destabilising Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Journalis...

Source: Internet By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront C hile has been known in history as the world’s second-largest copper mine pit. There was a time when the copper minefields at Chuquicamata, El Salvador mine and El Teniente became to be known as “ Chile’s salary .” The area had self-sustained settlements, own rail networks, schools, stores, and even their own police forces. Che Guevara’s memoirs, The Motorcycle Diaries , present an anguish of sorts after visiting the place which he had read about only in books, where mining workers were ill-treated by their bosses. When he and his friend, Granada visit the mining country, they meet a homeless communist couple searching for work. “ By the light of the single candle … the contracted features of the worker gave off a mysterious and tragic air … the couple, frozen stiff in the desert night, hugging one another, was a live representation of the proletariat of any part of the world ,” Che wrote. These moments in Chile ...

 By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront W hat is causing these endless wars, in terms of socialist perceptions in our modern world? Many powerful politicians, especially from the west, have said to have betrayed their ideals. Often what is articulated by powerful politicians before they come into power hasn't come true. Socialism has been a moral scale for human upliftment. It has been a great intellectual reminder, practised in our world, which gave the world new and credible forces of democracy, power to the working class,  several welfare initiatives that produced several social dimensions which deserve to get instituted in a so-called ideal state for the workers. However, these ideas haven't been practiced well always.  Any form of conflict obstructing a ruling  state bears a testimony to this. There are certain rules as well. Workers see themselves committed to some form of radical change through various political parties which are given birth throug...