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 [...]

Over the last 40 years or so we have too often heard from the champions of unregulated free market capitalism that “the government can do no right”. Or that “the magic of the market is always the best and proper answer to every problem.” Or the so called ‘joke’ “I’m from the government and I [...]

We in the United States are now in a deep and potentially fatal Constitutional crisis. We have, at our great peril, “bought into” the false philosophy of no limits and no consequences propagated by those who champion unregulated, global, “free” market capitalism. I now believe that our Constitutional crisis flows from the following deep meta [...]

July 17, 2007 The biomass energy activities at the recent UVM/Governor’s Institutes engineering camp demonstrate what Jock Gill has been talking about. On July 3, students came to Votey Hall with displays of bagged biomass pellets, posters about various “cocktails” of mixed biomass they’d tested, and homemade pellet burners. Jock was there to explain biomass [...]

NATION 16 July 2007, DR FAROOQ HASSAN As the Lal Masjid offensive in Islamabad ended on July 10, it had left behind according to the Pakistani Government an estimated 88 people dead, including the deputy head of the Mosque and the military colonel who led the initial assault. The casualty figures according to the online [...]

My friend Peter Jones sent along a pointer to the work at Princeton on “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” See also the Carbon Mitigation Initiative site. I think this is an interesting idea, but it is badly flawed for several reasons. 1] Nuclear power is a [...]

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 [...]