By: Nick Gill
I am a left-liberal Democrat. This is about my dream team. I voted for Hillary Clinton in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. I believed she was a serious, tough, capable, intelligent politician who could do a good job as President. I also liked Barack Obama, but I felt he might be too inexperienced for [...]

BY: Dr. Farooq Hassan
Last Monday I had the privilege of addressing Harvard Law School’s International Law intelligentsia with scholars composed of countries from Brazil to Kenya and Australia to India to analyse the current ‘constitutional’ situation in Pakistan. My view is that the ethos of the current state of political crisis in Pakistan emanates from [...]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
It was a great honour for me to address the National Press Club ‘Newsmakers Event’ on January 24, 2008 in Washington DC. In my Keynote address on the current political crisis in Pakistan, I emphasised that Musharraf’s rule in Pakistan and supremacy of law are two contradictory concepts. His rule is backed [...]

I suspect this is the company that made the VERY polished and professional pro Obama video at DipDive.com
The Black Eyed Peas, former Kerry supporters, get credit for the music and the idea. See Will.i.am’s blog entry here.
It is VERY well done. And seemingly not covered by campaign finance laws as it was apparently [...]

A question to consider: If our leading political candidates for President refuse to challenge the culture of global, unregulated, free market corporatism, and the broken narrative used to justify it, just how much change do we think there is going to be?
Has wishful thinking deluded some voters into thinking “hope” and [...]

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 [...]