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Let’s Stop Blaming America
We are still the prisoners of a culture of conspiracy and inferiority
Pakistan Moves Closer to China
The friction between Islamabad and Washington following the death of Osama Bin Laden in an American operation and the possible acceleration of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will narrow, analysts say, the relationship, already strong, between Pakistan and China.
What Holbrooke Knew
When he was alive, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was effectively gagged, unable to comment on what he saw as missteps of the Obama administration that he served. But as we face a crisis in Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden, it’s worth listening to Holbrooke’s counsel — from beyond the grave.
The Cost of One Man
Analysis of the economics of the military history of the US
ANALYSIS-Investment Key as Indonesia Eyes Greater US Cocoa Exports
JAKARTA, April 7 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s cocoa industry is looking to grab a bigger slice of the U.S. market due to unrest in top producer Ivory Coast, but needs a review of an export tax, as well as more investment to boost quality and output.
Who’s Serious Now?
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, sounds upset.
Special Report: The West’s Unwanted War in Libya
PARIS (Reuters) – It is a war that Barack Obama didn’t want, David Cameron didn’t need, Angela Merkel couldn’t cope with and Silvio Berlusconi dreaded.
US Economy 101: Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars and Bailouts
The US dollar’s value is likely to fall further in terms of other currencies, because nothing is being done about the US budget and trade deficits. Obama’s budget, if passed, doesn’t reduce the deficit over the next ten years by enough to cover the projected deficit in the FY 2012 budget.
Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
War on Terror: Does a Phrase Matter?
Arab Revolution Could Trigger Foreign Investment boom
LONDON (Reuters) – Unnerving as it is, the tide of political change sweeping the Arab world may also end up drawing in a fresh wave of foreign capital for the region.
My Impressions of Libya and Some Afterthoughts:
Qadhafi’s modified the Islamic calendar, which is in use in Libya and nowhere else. He effaced the influence of Ulama and Fuqaha as he envisaged himself to be the sole interpreter of the Sharia. He saw no need for the Qur’anic interpreters, as in his words “Qur’an was revealed in plain Arabic”
The Thrones Are Shaking
The televised brutality against unarmed civilians seeking their dignity as seen in Egypt, and now in Bahrain and Libya is neither shocking nor unexpected.
A Tarnished Halo
However, within minutes of the announcement of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, an estimated 200 Egyptian protestors morphed into unmanageable beasts. They had just been freed from an oppression that had defined the bulk of their lives and, within a mere matter of minutes, they chose to become violent merciless oppressors themselves.
The Israeli Conspiracy that Never Existed
I have, since childhood, been hearing about an invisible thing called the Israeli conspiracy.
Only Authentic Leaders Can Deliver a Middle East Peace
This week’s leaks have exposed the dangerous folly of US and British attempts to control and divide the Palestinians By Seumas Milne, Guardian UK Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) walk together upon Medvedev’s arrival in the West Bank city of Jericho January 18, 2011. Medvedev drove into the [...]
The Brutal Truth About Tunisia
Bloodshed, tears, but no democracy. Bloody turmoil won’t necessarily presage the dawn of democracy
Pakistan: How Many Enemies Within?
And according to CNN, Pakistan intelligence in 2004 had warned against hiring Qadri because of his Dawat-e-Islami connections.
America on the Rocks
“the US unemployment rate as of December 2010 was 22.4 per cent”
The Battle for the Vale III
My subject, of course, is not about the Northern San Francisco Bay Area, but the human rights situation in the disputed occupied terrain of Kashmir…
