PODGORICA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- When news broke that construction of Montenegro's first highway would begin near his house, Vukasin Petrovic, a villager in Jelin Dub, about 14 km north of the capital Podgorica, was so excited that he joked he would jump off a planned bridge.

The dream of safe and fast travels was too distant to realize in this small and under-developed corner of the Balkans, until impressive piers, some as high as 160 meters, emerged on the horizon.

The highway is part of the project that cut through the country's undulating mountains.

Sitaram Yechury

1 Oct 2018; GANASHAKTI: Mr. Mohan Bhagwat’s three-day lecture outreach to dress up the RSS with a modern, inclusive and liberal image is an exercise displaying its characteristic duplicity.  This is akin to its attempt (familiar to my generation) to lure youth to join its `shakhas’ through `vyayamshalas’ (body building clubs).

Brinda Karat

GANASHAKTI: On this day, September 28, three years ago, Mohammad Akhlaq, a resident of the Bisada village in the Dadri area of western Uttar Pradesh, was brutally killed in his own home by a mob of men on the accusation of cow slaughter.

His younger son Danish was grievously injured. His mother was also badly hurt.

Prabhat Patnaik

GANASHAKTI: The fraudulence of the claim made by the Modi government with regard to the “Ayushman Bharat” scheme launched recently surpasses all its previous efforts. This is hardly surprising for a government for which what matters is not what it actually does but how it creates perceptions about what it is doing.

The Ayushman Bharat scheme consists of two separate parts.

By Khadra Hamdan from Gaza

They look like one, they feel like one, they walk on a double foot , right left, left right

Five months of their life has paved the way for a lifetime of bitterness mixed with sweet.

26 Sep 2018; TASS: The United States Sixth Fleet, based in the Mediterranean Sea, may abandon the use of Israel’s major port of Haifa, Seth Cropsey, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The reason for the move is China’s permission to build and control a new port terminal in Haifa. Everyone in Israel is trying to figure out who made the decision to allow America’s major strategic adversary to take over this crucial port.

Prabhat Patnaik

Prakash Karat

14 Sep 2018; GANASHAKTI: The journey to becoming a subordinate ally of the United States has reached a decisive stage.

The first two-plus-two ministerial dialogue comprising the foreign and defence ministers of the United States and India, held on September 6, has given the India-US strategic alliance an institutional character.  The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the secretary of defence, James Mattis, visited Delhi for this inaugural meeting.  The 2+2 dialogue will be an annual one.

By Elena Teslova and Fatih Hafız Mehmet

MOSCOW/ANKARA, 14 Aug 2018; AA: With 300,000 military men, more than 1,000 planes, helicopters and UAVs, 36,000 tanks, and 80 naval ships Russia is showing off its military might in the largest-ever war games in the country's history.

The Vostok 2018 (East 2018) war games which started on Tuesday come on the heels of the country's first-ever military drills in the Mediterranean since the collapse of the Soviet Union, held between Sept. 1-8.

by Xinhua writers Sun Ding, Pan Lijun, Xu Xiaolei

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- "301 is a bed tax," "301 is a toothbrush tax," "301 is a food tax," "301 is a tax on your winter wardrobe..." said Hun Quach, the vice president for international trade at the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

To make her case, Quach, a retail industry representative, brought a basket of supermarket shelf items, and walked the 301 committee through "a day in the life of tariffs."

By AW Siddiqui

The Innocent Prophet is an anti-Islamic movie. It’s another addition in the long list of anti-Islamic, anti-Muslim propaganda items, created by Imran Firasat, a Pakistani married to an Indonesian Budhist, who now lives in Spain.

The movie is promoted by US pastor Terry Jones, best known for his plans to burn Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, and has become notorious for anti-Islam publicity stunts [1].

By Maung Zarni

LONDON; 25 Aug 2018; AA: Watching YouTube Myanmar State Counsellor’s 43rd Singapore lecture -- 1-hour lecture including the questions and answers – entitled, “Democratic Transition in Myanmar: Challenges and the Way Forward,” left me deeply disturbed, pained and outraged.

The degree of her delusions, distortions and concoctions made me realize that my fellow Burmese dissident has become nothing more than the most polished mouth piece for her former captors, namely the murderous military regime.