By: Dr. Farooq Hassan, D.Phil.;
BA (Juris),MA,M. LiTT (OXON);
DCL (Columbia),DIA(Harvard);
Sen.Adv.Sup.Ct. (Pakistan),
Barrister at Law (UK),Attorney at Law(US).
Astute analysts on Pakistan are generally astonished that despite the lapse of four months since the February 18 elections, there is no substantive change in the federal governments outlook, image or composition. Indeed even major policies, […]

Thomas Friedman’s essay in today’s NY Times, Anxious in America, is a good first step indictment of the failure of the Cold War world view to solve our 21st century problems. It should be no surprise that a world view that despises the role of government, except, curiously, when it comes to spying on […]

How do we define an “economics” that would be appropriate for spaceship earth? Is the current Chicago school of economic theory, as embraced by Senator Obama, the best we can do? It has had a long run. Has it gotten us to where we want to be? Can it get us to where […]

Could a President Obama set us free?
What is the “The Trap“?
It is a three part film by Adam Curtis, broadcast by the BBC in March 2007.
Curtis’s narration concludes with the observation that the game theory/free market model is now undergoing interrogation by economists who suspect a more irrational model of behaviour is appropriate and useful. […]

Author: Jim Warren
It’s often said about “open” government, that the best way to hide something is to bury it in a mountain of “public” records.
Regarding John McCain’s everso-brief “disclosure” of his medical records, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported,
“… At promptly 7:30 a.m. PT [on Friday beginning a holiday weekend], we were taken to a […]

By: George Kamburoff
Author’s preface:

After 40 years of retrospection, I decided it was time to question the hero worship we give most recently to those who join the military, so I started writing, driven by my own experiences in the war of my generation.
No newspaper would print the letter below, unless it was substantially changed. […]

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Corner swamp 671, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

What do you see in the photograph above?

I suggest we primarily “act” on what we “see”. Errol Morris posits that what we “see” is largely informed by […]

Wall Street and Washington Are Failing Spectacularly — Where Do We Go?
By Joe Costello, AlterNet.
Posted April 15, 2008.
The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
I was 19 in October 1979, when I first stepped into a campaign office. It was the Draft Kennedy […]

[Note: The author of the essay below, Thompson Buchanan, is a retired Foreign Service Officer who has been sickened by the sight of America squandering the great asset of global sympathy and cooperation following 9/11, and the lives and treasure of America through an unjustified “war of choice.” He served eight years in the Soviet […]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
In today’s analysis, I examine some fundamental perspectives of far reaching significance for the US towards the outcome of the truly historic Pakistani elections of February 18. In a recent column on March 25, I had articulated the grim realisation that the Bush administration, by visibly still supporting Musharraf, was deeply offending […]