Madrid: 19 July
Dear & eminent colleagues:
I wish to bring you in picture about a truly historic meeting convened here on the invitation of the Saudi monarch. This conference had been convened for a most crucial dialogue between the three monotheistic faiths. Saudi King Abdullah appealed for “constructive dialogue” to end disputes between the world’s […]

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, […]

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. […]

[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 […]

Errol Morris’ new film is:
Standard Operating Procedure

Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, […]

Paul Krugman’s March 14th NY Times essay “Betting the Bank“, should be a wake up call that the old American Fantasy of no limits & no consequences is not only an impossibly false proposition, for one it ignores the laws of thermodynamics, but it is also at the very heart of our imploding economy.
It strikes […]

As we know, the voting and polling so far show that we want a new narrative and we want change. But where is the new narrative? And change to what, at how much pain?
How about a new narrative that incorporates thermodynamics into accepted economic theory; that addresses the demand side as rigorously as the […]

Yet again, the Democrats are following, not leading.
It strikes me that the Jena Six situation, an event that happened on December 04, 2006, is a leadership opportunity the Democratic party should have taken up more PRO-actively. It is part and parcel of the ugly racist legacy nurtured by the hateful and divisive “Southern Strategy” […]

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 […]

Bill Moyers: Tough Talk on Impeachment

Thanks to Dewayne Hendricks for this pointer: Watch this week’s Bill Moyer’s show.

Bill Moyers talks with Bruce Fein and John Nichols
BILL MOYERS: One of the fellows you’re about to meet wrote the first article of impeachment against President Clinton. Bruce Fein did so because perjury is a legal crime. […]