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Yeswecanistan

Yeswecanistan

All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about?…

Prospects of India-Pakistan Nuclear Confidence Building

Prospects of India-Pakistan Nuclear Confidence Building

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) arrived at between India and Pakistan at the Lahore Summit of 1999 had a whole host of measures that the two states were to undertake.…

Economy: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me

Economy: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me

Obama is loading up the poor with enormous debts that imply hyperinflation in order to make Gold Sacks too heavy to lift and in order to reward the munitions industry…

Turkey, Armenia, and the Terrible Truth

Turkey, Armenia, and the Terrible Truth

Turkey has always had its share of decent folks. One close example is the righteous family who, during the great genocide and national dispossession of 1915, risked its own to…

Additional Troops for Afghanistan Not Expected to Carry Out a ‘Surge’ Against Pakistan

Additional Troops for Afghanistan Not Expected to Carry Out a ‘Surge’ Against Pakistan

Pakistan too does not want a US withdrawal, but neither do we want a US surge because that will drive the insurgents into Pakistan.…

Examining Obama’s Rationale for Escalating the War in Afghanistan

Examining Obama’s Rationale for Escalating the War in Afghanistan

Outlining his rationale for the decision to send yet more troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama on Tuesday began with a familiar refrain: “We did not ask for this fight.…

The Obama Puppet

The Obama Puppet

The military/security lobby has war and a domestic police state on its agenda, and a mere American president can’t do anything about it.…

I Like My English Grilled: A Video Biography of Students in Rural Cambodia

I Like My English Grilled: A Video Biography of Students in Rural Cambodia

There were many things I really wanted to hear from the students. What did they love most about Cambodia? Where in the world did they want to visit? What were…

View from Pakistan: A Very Cozy U.S.-India Relationship Can Destabilize South Asia

View from Pakistan: A Very Cozy U.S.-India Relationship Can Destabilize South Asia

When the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President Obama during his visit to the US this week, the two leaders will discuss the strategic dialogue framework between the two…

India-Pakistan relations: Movement?

India-Pakistan relations: Movement?

With Obama promising to make a call soon on General Stanley McChrystal’s report on the counter insurgency requirements in Af-Pak, Obama no doubt used the opportunity to probe India’s position.…

Wrestling with the Vietnamese Language

You can’t learn a language in twenty minutes a day. One hour a week won’t get it. To truly learn a difficult language, such as Vietnamese, will take a dedicated…

Myths of Our Time

Myths of Our Time

The United States needs to be censured for its immoral behavior, not have that behavior rationalized as being in its material interests.…

U.S. Delegation in Rangoon Met With Burma’s Ethnic Minority Political Parties as Part of “Fact Finding” Mission

U.S. Delegation in Rangoon Met With Burma’s Ethnic Minority Political Parties as Part of “Fact Finding” Mission

An American delegation that visited Rangoon as part of a fact finding mission was told by one of Burma’s main opposition parties that they refuse to endorse the country’s elections…

This Is Your War Not Ours, Ms. Clinton

This Is Your War Not Ours, Ms. Clinton

Clinton was here for first hand assessments of ground realities important for Obama’s future Afghan war strategy now under review.…

The Evil Empire

The Evil Empire

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who…

The continuing desperate quest to find something good to say about US foreign policy

Most people believe that the United States lost the war. But by destroying Vietnam to its core, by poisoning the earth, the water, the air, and the gene pool for…

In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony

In short, in China the U.S. corporations have made adaptations to the local business/political climate that fits into their natural corporate ethos and that have and are in process of…

Maldives: A Bold and Historic Step for Change

Maldives: A Bold and Historic Step for Change

A couple of days ago, the awareness campaign for climate change got a new boost when the government of the Indian Ocean republic of The Maldives held an underwater cabinet…

Af-Pak: Opportunity for a Regional Initiative

Af-Pak: Opportunity for a Regional Initiative

President Obama has acknowledged that he is in the midst of a decision making exercise brought on by the McChrystal report, saying, ‘”I will never rush the solemn decision of…

Afghanistan: Can the New U.S. Strategy Succeed?

Afghanistan: Can the New U.S. Strategy Succeed?

The Initial Assessment Report of the Situation in Afghanistan by General Stanley McChrystal has caused the Afghanistan issue to again come under spotlight.…