Posted on 17 June 2009. Tags: Anti-War movement in USA, End war in Afghanistan, Peace
A Movement to Make Obama Bring an End to War by Jane Hamsher & Robert Greenwald In 2007, 82 Democratic members of Congress signed a pledge. They would never again vote to fund the war in Iraq without plans for troop withdrawal. Republican critics accused them of demagoguing the war. Of using our soldiers as [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 17 June 2009. Tags: Afghan, Pakistan, US
The headlines about Pakistan in the media: Understanding the Rupert Murdock-Neocon-Hinduvata doomsayer machine which is running scared of defeat and retreat The resilience of Pakistan and the nation’s continuing collective refusal to do what the west would like it to do The stubborn Pakistanis It is pedagogical to note that Rupee News has written an [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 17 June 2009. Tags: Cricket, Nottingham, Pakistan, South Africa, Twenty20
The passionate Pakistani fans can out cheer the English home team, and drown out the subdued South Africans at the stadium. The question is can the offf-field advantage help them on the grounds? The Big Mo is on the side of the Pakistanis, the hands on favorites in the Semis. The Gul-Afridi-Ajmal troika is dangerous [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 16 June 2009. Tags: Islambad, Russia
The Ural mountains are known for many important events in world history. 2009 will be remembered when the geopolitcal and economic system was placed on a new a different footing. Yekaterinburg is remembered for many things. It is the place where the last Russian Czars, the Romonovs were executed. It is a place where the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA
Posted on 16 June 2009. Tags: Bharat, India, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan
The failure of the rude Manmohan Singh’s “complain diplomacy” The white dowager’s brown servant delivered the Brahmin message in the manner it had been scripted. The way Mr. Manmohan Singh greeted Mr. Asif Zardari not only shocked the demure Mr. Zardari, the rudeness has reverberated beyond the Urals, down the Himalayas to the Sea of [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 16 June 2009. Tags: Mayawati, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
To discover the reasons for the hatred for Gandhi, one has to come out of the Disneyworld perpetuated in his name and learn the reality about the man. To comprehend the dislike for the man, one has to read the two books by his grandsons, and understand what Dr. G.B. Singh is trying to say [...]
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Posted in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Posted on 15 June 2009. Tags: Bait Mehsud, Qari Zainuddin, RAW
With Iran in turmoil, the Indian army retreating from Kashmir, and tensions rising between China and Bharat, and the TTP on the run in Swat, the Pakistani army has devised a vigilante revenge strategy to hit Bait Mehsud where it hurts him–in his home. According to the new army strategy, if Bait strikes civilians in [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, US CA
Posted on 15 June 2009. Tags: America, Christians, Israel, Jews, Muslims
Some had considered the tough love message from President Obama to Prime Minister Bebe Netanyahu as a suicide mission which would confirm him as a one term lame duck president. It now seems like President Obama’s White House team had done its homework. There is little support for Israeli settlements among American Jews, and little support [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 15 June 2009. Tags: CIA, Iran
Several years ago the US Congress approved more than $250-$450 million in funding (on an annual basis) to be used against the Islamic republic of Iran. Hundreds of millions of Dollars were poured into an anti-Iran campaign to make it kneel down and roll back its nuclear program. This is not generic funding for the CIA, [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 15 June 2009. Tags: Mayawati, Mohandas Gandhi
To discover the reasons for the hatred for Gandhi, one has to come of the Disneyworld perpetuated in his name and learn the reality about the man. To comprehend the dislike for the man, one has to read the two books by his grandsons, and understand what Dr. G.B. Singh is trying to say about [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, S. Asia History