As I try to read the current political tea leaves, I see a strange paradox for Senator Clinton.
The apparent disarray shown by the Clinton campaign since Iowa suggests a lack of leadership skills in the face of an unexpected twist of fate.
So you have three odd strikes against Senator Clinton:
1. Her touted experience was fooled […]

Author: Jock Gill
I just watched “The War Room“, a film about the 1992 Clinton Campaign, for the first time since 1993.
Watching this film of politics from 15 years ago is an experience I recommend highly. In 1992, Bush, and esp. Mary Maitlan, one of his senior campaign staffers, worked […]

The Nation, 26 November, 2007
DR. FAROOQ HASSAN
While arguing major constitutional cases against Musharraf’s regime in the Supreme Court of Pakistan since 2000 I realised that his only agenda was ‘himself’. Both the coups of October 12, 1999 and that of November 3, 2007 were staged to save his army chief’s job. […]

Today, I received an email that started, “Do You Support Florida in the Primary Mess? If not, I don’t really want to get into a debate about it on list, so send me a off-list e-mail.” I think this is misguided in several different ways.
First and foremost, I’m very concerned about the compression […]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
August Monday, 20, 2007
When Pakistan’s history is being written objectively there is little doubt that it would signify one of the most remorseless power tussles between the civilian and military rulers on the one hand, and the secular and religious forces on the other.
As such as the country reaches it 60th birthday […]

This is a must watch hour of outstanding investigative journalism.
The Trouble with Touch Screens
It looks to be likely that the 2000 Florida vote was intentionally sabotaged by Sequoia, the single source for the ballots, by:
         1. Using sub-standard paper stock to make the ballets;
         2. Ordering the ballots be printed “short”, i.e. in clear variance with standard […]

But Only
“In the Box Solutions”
are offered up by our would be presidents and their parties.
A few of our Out of the Box Problems:
Global Climate Change
Peak Oil
Bird Flu
Global Credit Crisis
Backwards Communications Infrastructure.
An electrical system that wastes at least 70% of the energy it uses
Smoldering National Urban Crisis
A corrupt, profit driven election process
The attack on […]

It looks like we are in for a nasty economic storm as the greed driven subprime loan bubble bursts. We are about to experience the unintended consequences of unregulated, transnational capitalism, without the tools to regulate it knowledgeably or to understand its emergent vulnerabilities.
Bush and the Republicans have thrived upon a culture of greed. […]

If today’s candidates for President have a broadband strategy for rural America, it amounts to little more than bringing the inadequate and over priced broadband offered up to urban residents to their country cousins. This is hardly a path towards recapturing global communications leadership for America. More of the same old same […]

By: Dr. Farooq Hassan
Recently, when Negroponte was in Islamabad, he is reported to have said that the matter of uniform was to be decided by General Musharraf. If for no other reason as a constitutionalist and as a lawyer I was disappointed by these sentiments as they signalled that in US policy analysis one person’s […]