By: Dr. Farooq Hassan
It is an end of an Era: No words can really describe the impact of the sad news on the morning of August 26th, 2009 of the passing away of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. President Obama described him as the greatest Senator of our times. That he was certainly, but to me [...]

In order to support and strengthen the recent American and Chinese commitments to the concept of Low Carbon Economies, perhaps these policy guide lines and goals could be incorporated into the Waxman Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 [H.R. 2454].
1. Sequester additional carbon in the soils and forests in a sustainable [...]

The Country at Stake With Reckless Leadership
By Farooq Hassan
Law & Int’l Affairs Professor — Harvard
I have been in Cairo where I had arrived to talk to the Arab intellectuals of strategic and Islamic affairs. Regrettably then on May 27, the third major terrorist attack in Lahore occurred.
Recent hostilities in the country concerning [...]

Islam: Environmental Protection
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By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
Dr. Hassan has a new essay in The Nation:
Every morning at my Harvard’s library desk I go through press reports on Pakistan. I regret to say that no country in the World has as bad things written about it as Pakistan does. While some of these critiques, ridicules or even sarcasm could [...]

Author: Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Will the remnants of 20th Century national security mechanisms derail our own recovery and jeopardize the health, well-being and prosperity of Americans by consuming our societal attention and resources around the potential or actual next large terrorist attack, while other greater threats to our society and to the world continue to [...]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN –
Dr. Hassan has published an essay of interest on the Mumbai massacre and Pakistan.
The mental shock on seeing the Mumbai massacre on the TV in my hotel room in Dubai was both abrupt and intense. I left soon thereafter as I was en route to performing the Hajj; but the thought [...]

By DR FAROOQ HASSAN
November 18, 2008
Dr. Hassan’s latest opinion piece has been published here.
Tyranny of good intentions
Any contemporary thinker of any significance cannot be in any doubt on the three salient aspects of the evolving political scenario in Pakistan, viz: (1) the manifest political operations through which Zardari has entered the portals of absolute power, [...]

For the first time in his professional career, Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe – previously on various short-lists of potential Supreme Court nominees – proposed a Constitutional Amendment.
He felt it was necessary in order to assure that traditional 18th Century constitutional civil liberties would remain protected against modern technological threats.
On March 26, 1991, Professor Tribe (now [...]

Tags: civil liberties, due process, free press, freedom of speech, technological threats, unreasonable search, unreasonable seizuers

Tell Them About the Dream
Please do it TODAY!
A terrific music video by Laura Vecchione (Veck-ee-oh-nee)
She writes:
Dear Friends,
This is a song and video that came together in a week, in three different cities, because of people’s belief in Sen. Obama and his message of renewal and the historic nature of this election. We got it [...]