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 […]

Back on January 17, 2001, The Onion published this ’spoof’. Their crystal ball was all too accurate.
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity […]

An important key for a more successful future is a more realistic and more honest economics. Not the fantasy economics we have today that assumes that economics is both mechanistic and divorced from the laws of the natural world.
Why we have not developed a new economics that includes the laws of physics, and […]

Transpartisanship Defined
Transpartisanship represents an emerging field in political thought distinct from bipartisanship, which aims to negotiate between “right” and “left,” resulting in a dualistic perspective, and nonpartisanship, which tends to avoid political affiliation altogether. Rather, transpartisanship acknowledges the validity of truths across a range of political perspectives and seeks to synthesize them into an […]

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 […]

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 […]

By: Farooq Hassan
A team of Scotland Yard investigators has arrived in Pakistan to assist in the inquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Earlier three different versions of the killing had come from the Islamabad authorities within the first three days of the tragedy of December 27, 2007. Then Musharraf appearing on […]

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 […]