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Articles by Anil Madan
How Misinformation, Disinformation, and Electoral Fraud Threaten Democracy
| October 19, 2026 | Opinion | Electoral Integrity By Anil Madan Democracy depends upon an informed electorate capable of making decisions based on accurate information, reasoned debate, and trust in public institutions. Misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and electoral fraud each threaten these foundations in different ways, but together they can seriously weaken democratic governance. Misinformation refers to false or inaccurate information that is shared without an intent to deceive.
AI, Paper Clips, Viruses, Ebola, and the Plague
Why crying wolf on artificial intelligence ignores human ingenuity and real-world risks By Anil Madan One month ago, The New York Times published a story captioned: “This AI Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature.” The researchers who conducted the study, scientists from the Stanford University Departments of Bioengineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Genetics, all affiliated with the Arc Institute of Palo Alto, and one from the Broad institute of MIT and Harvard, titled their...
Are we Unintelligent about Artificial Intelligence?
AI offers tremendous potential for humanity, but history is not one of mankind coming together to make wonders happen for all By Anil Madan Some months ago, AI Models built by leading companies, Anthropic and OpenAI, trained to hack computer systems, ventured beyond their supposedly limited test environments. OpenAI’s model hacked into the systems of another company called Hugging Face. Later, Anthropic reported three hacks by its model.
Twenty-Five Years After 9/11: The New Face of Terror
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan On July 1, 2004, in response to a question on “Ask the White House” — an interactive forum for people to question members of the administration — Condoleeza Rice, then National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, and later his Secretary of State, assured a questioner that the US was safer in these words: “We are safer today. But we are not yet safe.
Iranian Sanctions, Canadian Tariffs: A Double Whammy
Engaging in a tariff war with Canada fractures allied cooperation and destabilizes the US economy while Washington struggles to manage simultaneous crises in the Middle East and global sanctions By Anil Madan With which country does the US have the closest ties of friendship and cooperation? If you had asked that question just three years ago, the unsurprising answer would have been either Britain or Canada. The US-Canada bond has been more than one of geography.
The Iran War: A Potential Triangular Choke Emerges
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan The political effluvium of the sensational dressing-down that Ukraine’s President Zelensky suffered at the hands of President Trump and VP Vance at the White House last year, still lingers in the ether. The stinging words, laced with seeming truth still echo: “You don’t have the cards right now…” It appears that the Iran war and Putin’s war on Ukraine are converging and Zelensky may have cards. The question is whether Trump wants to play the hand or fold.
America: 400 Years — A Celebration of Immigrants
| June 22, 2026 | Diaspora | Without immigrants, the American economy would collapse. It’s not just the scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs and risk-takers, but it’s also the immigrant labourers, nurses, healthcare aides, construction workers who keep this nation moving every single day By Anil Madan It is not an exaggeration to say that over the past 700 years, Britain and America have had the greatest impact on the world.
America is An Idea; American is An Ideal
| June 8, 2026 | World Affairs | Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan In one month, Americans will observe with reverence — and celebrate — the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In anticipation of that day, let us look back at that Declaration and for a moment, indulge ourselves in what may be possible.
Drones Are Changing Warfare
| May 25, 2026 | Latest News, World Affairs | Breakfast with Bwana Increasingly autonomous drones are redefining warfare, replacing expensive, legacy artillery with precise mass achieved through scalable, low-cost precision attacks By Anil Madan The other day, I read that Ukraine can produce up to 10 million drones a year whereas the US can just about manage 100,000. All of Europe combined does not have any more robust production capacity.
The Iran War: Winning, Losing And Ending
| May 4, 2026 | Latest News, World Affairs | The war’s energy impact will outlast any cease-fire, shaping global politics and economics for years By Anil Madan Even as the ceasefire in the Iran war stretches out, there is the uneasy feeling that an agreement between the US and Iran is far, far, away and perhaps impossible to achieve. Meanwhile, for the Iranian people, for the Gulf States, and indeed for the world, the devastating effects are compounding.
The Iran War: A Comprehensive (sort of) Review
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan It is undeniable that wars are easy to start. What the Iran war has taught us — once again — is that wars are sometimes, also easy to stop. All it takes is for the parties to agree to a ceasefire. And often, the unlikeliest mediator emerges as the catalyst for the ceasefire. Pakistan was instrumental in getting the initial ceasefire organized and then in convincing President Trump to extend the ceasefire.
Economic sanctions imposed by the US and/or EU were associated with 564,258 deaths annually from 1971 to 2021
| April 20, 2026 | World Affairs | The Toll of Economic Sanctions. The Toll of USAID Cuts By Anil Madan The Lancet is a highly regarded British peer-reviewed general medical journal. In July 2025, it published an article titled Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis.
Artemis II and Armageddon: Adventures on the Dark Side
| April 13, 2026 | Latest News, World Affairs | Breakfast With Bwana By Anil Madan Artemis II, about a quarter million miles from its launch pad, disappeared from earthly view as it rounded to the dark side of the lunar sphere. Science fiction became reality. The astronauts, cut off from contact with earth, crossed over the Terminator — the line that separates lunar night from day — and slung around by gravity, emerged from the darkness, safe and sound. The laws of physics were not violated.
The Geopolitical Stew Boils Over: A Recipe for Turmoil
| April 6, 2026 | Latest News, World Affairs | How long will all this last? Probably until Trump’s term in office comes to an end By Anil Madan On Tuesday, March 31st, US stocks surged.
Blocking the Strait of Hormuz – Iran’s Nuclear Option
By Anil Madan The chant has been ringing for years. Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear bomb. The Israelis have persistently emphasized that this is existential for the survival of their State. The Gulf nations see a nuclear armed Iran as a threat. With nuclear bombs, Iran would be able to bully and extort its neighbours with missiles, drones and unleashed proxies.
The Existential Matrix: Trump, Netanyahu, and Iran Face known and Unknown Unknowns
Breakfast With Bwana By Anil Madan Ever since the Islamic Revolution that vaulted Ayatollah Khomeini to power in 1979, his chants of “Death to America,” and “Death to the Zionist Pigs” filled the air. His successor, and undoubtedly the successor’s son who has been anointed as the next iteration of Supreme Leaders, echoed his exhortations. How seriously should threats seemingly existential in import be taken? Do they require a pre-emptive blow, or would a retaliatory response suffice?
Is the US sending mixed signals - or is the Western Alliance divided against itself?
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan In February 2025, US Secretary of Defense (or of War, if you prefer) spoke at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, Belgium.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
| January 25, 2026 | World Affairs | By Anil Madan A dog sees a car, starts barking and runs after it, full tilt. At some point, we have all wondered: what if the dog caught the car? At Davos, we saw world leaders, all earnest, barking up the wrong tree. Never have so many, so badly assessed a situation. Or was it that their display of panic and hysteria actually defused a crisis — one that might otherwise have morphed into the end of NATO, the Western alliance, and the rules-based order?
Strategic Preemption or Imperial Overreach? The Cases of Venezuela and Greenland
| January 20, 2026 | Latest News, World Affairs | By Anil Madan In 2019, more than six years ago, Donald Trump was asked about his interest in acquiring Greenland. He said: “Denmark essentially owns it. We’re very good allies with Denmark. We protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world. So, the concept came up and I said, ‘Certainly I’d be.’ Strategically it’s interesting and we’d be interested but we’ll talk to them a little bit.
The Certainty of Uncertainty
| January 5, 2026 | Latest News, World Affairs | “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” By Anil Madan Here we are near the end of another year and, unless humanity does something utterly stupid in a day or two, we will enter 2026 not entirely unscathed but having survived despite ourselves. Let me begin by saying that the most significant event of 2026 coming up is the 250th anniversary of the founding of America.
Smoke and Fire - A Review of Significant Events In 2025
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan The new year was barely a week old when smoke rose and fire engulfed the Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas of Greater Los Angeles. The destructive wildfires burned some 37,000 acres of the densely populated city and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.
Is Australia’s Social Media Ban For Children sensible regulation or government overreach?
| December 14, 2025 | World Affairs | Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan If you take the time to search for a catalog of the ills of social media, the resulting list is long. Aside from loss of face-to-face interactions with one’s peers and fragmentation of social relationships, mental and emotional health risks include depression, anxiety, addiction, isolation and loneliness, and cyberbullying.
A Worldwide Anti-Immigrant Wave
| December 5, 2025 | Latest News, World Affairs | Asylum seekers can strain the state and spark citizen friction, with fears of cultural loss and resource diversion sometimes leading to protests or riots By Anil Madan Just about six weeks ago, Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheal Martin called riotous clashes of around 1,000 protesters with police in Dublin “extremely serious and very, very grave.” The demonstrations sparked by reports of an alleged sexual attack on a young girl had protesters...
Will the Epstein Files Be Released? Maybe Not
| November 21, 2025 | World Affairs | It is tempting to speculate, but so far, truth has proved more tantalizing than fiction or speculation By Anil Madan Late on Wednesday, November 19, President Trump announced on his social media site that he had signed the bill passed 427-1 by the House of Representatives the previous day.
Trump Orders Nuclear Tests - Is this a New Nuclear Age?
| November 15, 2025 | World Affairs | Are we witnessing a return to the crazed world of the Cold War — wasting untold billions of dollars to prove what we already know: that we can destroy each other many times over? By Anil Madan It was almost too good to be true.
The Xi-Trump Meeting: The more things change, the more they stay the same
| November 7, 2025 | World Affairs | ‘For all the fuss, there does not seem to be much of a change in the US-China relationship’ By Anil Madan The well telegraphed mini “summit” between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday 30 October 2025, ended with Trump saying that it had been a very good meeting, a 12 on a scale of zero to 10 with ten being the best.
It Is Time to Reset the US-India Relationship
| October 24, 2025 | World Affairs | India’s challenges are also America’s challenges. It is vital that these two countries find ways to bolster each other By Anil Madan At the beginning of this month, nineteen members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats with no Republican joining, sent a joint letter to President Trump urging him to reset and repair the “critical partnership” that the US has forged with India.
The Arab-Israel Coalition Against Hamas
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan Back in 2014, in an email to a friend explaining my perception of the Israeli position on a two-state solution, an undivided Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and Gaza, I wrote: “Israel is for a two-state solution – one state makes no sense. But they feel they must get the Palestinians out of Jerusalem.
The Dragon and the Elephant. Is the US-India relationship in peril?
| September 26, 2025 | World Affairs | India and the US are too important for each other’s success and security in too many ways for a dragon to drag them apart By Anil Madan The conventional wisdom is that China and India are adversaries. The conventional wisdom is that India is too dependent on Russia for oil and fighter aircraft. The conventional wisdom is that the US and India need each other to counter the threat posed by China.
Protests against Governments, for Kings, and for no Kings
| September 12, 2025 | World Affairs | Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan King Gyanendra, the deposed monarch of Nepal, in a 2008 interview said that the decision of the interim parliament to abolish the monarchy did not “reflect the majority view of the people. This isn’t a democracy.” At the same time, he conceded that the people do have the right to choose the fate of the monarchy.
The Global Governance Initiative: A China-Centric New World Order
| September 5, 2025 | World Affairs | If Xi’s predictions hold true, a requiem for the American empire is currently being composed By Anil Madan On Monday, September 1, 2025, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus meeting in Tianjin, China’s President Xi Jinping celebrated the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japanese aggression in World War II.
The Empire Strikes Out
| August 22, 2025 | World Affairs | Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that had he been President in 2022, Putin would never have attacked Ukraine, and that if he did become President again, he’d end Russia’s war on Ukraine on his first day in office. Inauguration Day for Trump 2.0 was on January 20th this year.
The Human Race: A Lose-Lose Game
| August 9, 2025 | World Affairs | We are all destined to go to our graves at some point.
A Look Behind Trump’s Tariffs
| July 25, 2025 | Latest News, World Affairs | American consumers will face higher prices, increased inflation, fewer available goods, and a drain of money from the global economy due to these unnecessary taxes. By Anil Madan Last Tuesday, July 22nd, the Chief Financial Officer of General Motors announced that its profit margin declined sharply due to incurred tariff costs of around $1.1 billion.
Elon Musk’s America Party: A Strategic Move or Wishful Thinking and Delusion?
By Anil Madan Elon Musk, erstwhile supporter and then sidekick of candidate Trump, and for a not so ELONgated time, of President Trump, has announced the launch of a new political party in the US, the America Party. The announcement in America of a new political party is neither a novel, nor a surprising occurrence. The biggest surprise is that someone has previously used the name Musk chose, the America Party.
The End of American Soft Power; The Resurgence of American Hard Power
By Anil Madan On March 1, 2025, Associated Press (AP) reported that the Trump administration had eliminated more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding. These decisions, AP stated, left millions of people without access to life-saving care. Some 10,000 contracts with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) were terminated.
The US-Israel-Iran Triangle: From Obliteration to Mediation
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan As the NATO summit wound up at The Hague, President Trump held a press conference following another stream of rambling remarks. A question raised by more than one journalist was whether the recent US bombing run on Iran’s nuclear facilities had truly obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Are America’s Constitutional Checks and Balances Fatally Flawed?
The triangular polygon is showing the effects of stress on its angles. The checks are not checking, and the system is out of balance By Anil Madan A friend asked: “How long can Trump go on like this? Can he be brought under control? I replied: “He believes that he is doing what the people elected him to do. That belief is a flaw not only in his thinking but in our system of checks and balances. So, yes, there are forces within the system that can rein him in, but they are a long way from coalescing.
Can Trump Realign the World Order?
Or will world disorder realign Trump? In the end, it might not matter By Anil Madan The advent of Trump 2.0 in the White House was replete with promises of realignment both at home and on the geopolitical stage. The 100-day mark of this second presidential term has come and gone and while there is much turmoil and churn at home, attempts to discern meaningful change around the world come up empty.
War And Peace. Black Smoke, White Smoke
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan The election of a new Pope follows a traditional process within a papal conclave.After each vote, successful or unsuccessful, the ballots are burned. Black smoke signals that no Cardinal eligible to be Pontiff has secured a supermajority of votes cast — at least 89 of 133.
The Birthright Citizenship Kerfuffle before the US Supreme Court
By Anil Madan The fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The bolded words have been the subject of controversy. It had been generally accepted in the United States that all persons born in this country, except for children of foreign diplomats, are automatically citizens of the US.
Separating Church And State: Will Harvard Save American Democracy?
In the battle to keep the Church of Harvard separate from the State of Trump, Harvard will prevail By Anil Madan Harvard College was founded in 1636. Two years later, John Harvard, an English Puritan Minister in the Colonies, died. He left a bequest to Harvard which included 400 books in his library. Harvard was founded long before, seven score years before, the United States of America came into existence.
The Great American Brain Drain
| April 11, 2025 | World Affairs | Self-Inflicted National Alzheimer’s ‘Major brain drain’ – Researchers eye exit from Trump’s America. Pic – Billings News – kulr8.com By Anil Madan Republican right-wingers in the US are fond of referring to the “Deep State” a mythical Hydra and of “draining the swamp” – an allusion to cleaning out the fraud, waste, redundancy, and bureaucracy in Washington.
Trump Doctrine or Incoherent Coherence?
If all of Trump’s incoherence leads to peace around the world and a more cohesive international free market regime, it may be viewed as coherent. Unfortunately, on the domestic front, there seems to be a complete absence of any coherence By Anil Madan Even before the inauguration in January and the official advent of Trump 2.0, we knew that things would be different.
Requiem For The Western Alliance? What’s Next For Ukraine?
Peace will be welcome, but how much solace will there be in knowing that it depends on Putin’s promises? By Anil Madan Much has been written about the shockingly bad and shabby treatment of Ukraine’s President Zelensky at the White House just a few days ago. Some have even suggested that the meeting was a setup to humiliate him.
The Far-Right causes Turmoil in Liberal Europe
The success of AfD is yet another example of a wave of successes by right-wing parties that has been spreading across Europe By Anil Madan Germany’s just-concluded election showed the right-wing AfD party making its best showing in the twelve years of its existence. It won almost one-fourth of the total seats in the 630-seat Bundestag.
A New Peace Initiative for Ukraine - Or Capitulation?
By Anil Madan President Zelenskyy of Ukraine warned that direct negotiations between the US and Russia, about ending Russia’s war of aggression, but excluding his country that is the victim of that aggression, would be dangerous.
The Out-Of-The-Box World Disorder
By Anil Madan In just over two weeks of President Trump 2.0, the world has seen an expansionist idea of America with Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal in its sights. The overture to buy Greenland ended in a somewhat testy telephone call between Trump and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen in which Trump insisted on acquiring Greenland and Frederiksen insisting that it is not for sale. That is not the end of the matter.
Israel and Gaza after the Ceasefire. What’s next?
Breakfast with Bwana By Anil Madan The UN reports that 90% of Gaza residents have been displaced and forced to move repeatedly since the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel. As well, some 60% of buildings including schools and hospitals, and 92% of homes have been damaged or destroyed.
Making The Breaking News
By Anil Madan “When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.” — Stephen King, Joyland. Stephen King was perhaps even more on to something than he realized. Take the expression “History is written by the victors.” This is frequently attributed to Winston Churchill, but a search reveals an article in Slate claiming that there is no recorded instance of his having ever uttered the aphorism although he did say that some things were best left to history and that he proposed to write it.
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