Socialize
Creating the bin Laden Reality
I have heard one dozen times today (May 13) from media that the US killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. I heard it three times from National Public Radio, twice…
Is Pakistan Being Cast as the Next Plausible Evil Doer?
Conspiracy theorists assure us that Osama bin Laden was killed in December 2001 and his body put on ice in—of course—an undisclosed location. If the recent killing of bin Laden…
Americans Are Living In 1984
The White House’s “death of bin Laden” story has come apart at the seams. Will it make any difference that before 48 hours had passed the story had changed so…
The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by…
Obama Snatches Defeat from Jaws of Victory
As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death filtered out onto the streets of America it triggered unsightly scenes of undiluted hysteria, chest-thumping and back-slapping which has sadly become a…
Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death
In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press, or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write,…
Iran-Pakistan Relations in Light of Popular Uprising in Bahrain
Pakistan’s interior minister, Rehman Malik, was recently on a visit to Tehran conveying a special message from the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to President Ahmadinejad of Iran. The Pakistani…
India-Pak: Justifiable Pessimism
Superficially, it would appear that Kashmir is at the ‘core’ of the problem between the two states, India and Pakistan. Other candidate areas of lesser significance figure in the basket…
Review of Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 2011. Given the nature of events reported in the regular media, this…
India-Pakistan: Nothing in the offing
After the Thimpu talks between the two foreign secretaries, India and Pakistan stand at yet another beginning. As in the middle of last year, there is little indication that this…
Can America Get Away With Murder?
The Murder On the crispy afternoon of January 27, in crowded downtown Lahore, a guy who later identified himself as Raymond Davis, a technical advisor at the US Consulate, Lahore,…
Made by America – the Peoples’ Revolution
US Administrations have been blighted since 9/11 by a deadly cocktail of arrogance and ignorance, with a twist of the strong desire for revenge. But before you take aim and…
Atheist: ‘Blasphemy is a victimless crime.’
Salman Taseer was murdered in Pakistan a few weeks ago. He was the governor of Punjab province and a member of the secular Pakistan People’s Party. The man who killed…
Today We Are All Seditious!
When Mohandas Gandhi, the god-father of India who will be revered as the leading light of its freedom movement by the present and future generations of Indians, was arrested by…
Pakistan: A Deficit of Dignity
Pakistan’s rulers and ruling elites may well be thinking that the wave of people’s indignation that started in Tunisia and is now working its way through Egypt, Jordan and Yemen…
Coping with Islamist Pakistan
The revolution in Tunisia, with ripple effects in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon, has placed authoritarian regimes across the Muslim world on notice. On the face of it, Pakistan, having a…
Resolving the Kashmir Conflict
Almost the whole world had condemned the Mumbai attacks of November 2008. Such terrorism had also, once again, reminded us how important it is to combat the forces of communalist…
A Political Murder in Pakistan or War?
Pakistan’s English print media – faux liberal and elitist – have been in furor over the recent political murder of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab, by his own bodyguard. Ostensibly,…
AfPak: Talks as a way out
That Pakistan is ‘hedging’ is now official. It has been resisting both pressures and incentives to ‘do more’ in the war on terror. Observers with empathy realize it has little…
The Cost of Humiliation
Never underestimate the cost of humiliation. For in war victory is never clean, because it empowers the vanquished, or their successors, to struggle in the future. Recent wars in Iraq,…
- Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging? by Paul Craig Roberts - 3 Comments
- Finding Punt; Africa’s Last, Lost Great Civilization Is In Eritrea by Thomas C. Mountain - 7 Comments
-
Will Africa Be Home to the World’s Largest Radio Telescope? by John Glassey - 1 Comment -
The Nakba: 2012 by Richard Falk - 2 Comments -
US Envoys: Losing Lebanon—Visit by Visit? by Franklin Lamb - 4 Comments
-
A Scientific Theory of the WTC 7 Collapse by Michael Fullerton - 238 Comments -
The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel by Jeremy R. Hammond - 166 Comments -
Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia by Yvonne Ridley - 158 Comments -
Ron Paul: Propagandist or Prophet? by Jeremy R. Hammond - 157 Comments - Caught Red Handed; British Assassins in the Horn of Africa by Thomas C. Mountain - 150 Comments
pf soto: Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
Adiam Kidane: Finding Punt; Africa’s Last, Lost Great Civilization Is In Eritrea
a free bird: The Nakba: 2012
afAbet: Destroying Africa With Western “Democracy”
