In a front-page article citing unnamed US military and political officials, the New York Times reported Tuesday that the Obama administration is close to approving a major expansion of Special Operations ground raids into Pakistani regions bordering Afghanistan.
The newspaper acknowledged that such a move “would amount to the opening of a new front in the [...]
Shah Abdul Halim
Pen is a weapon when the need calls for laying the foundation of a new culture.
- Mao Tse-tung
The Muslim ummah today is passing through the most critical period of its
history. They are now divided into some fifty or more nation-states and the
Super Empire is planning to divide them further. Muslims are humiliated. They
are [...]
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the second quarter of its fiscal year surprised on the upside as year-on-year growth was pegged at 8.9%. While the numbers are confidence boosting, it is important to realize that there is a statistical element to the latest number, while being very positive, rather than the data indicating [...]
The Wikileaks revelations confirm the obvious, more than what it informs us about the darker corners of ‘US diplomacy, cloaked in securitocracy.’ In fact, it is Cyber War, in the new game of psy-warfare, targeting individuals and countries, to cover-up the shame of defeat of war on Afghanistan, war on Iraq and 2006 Israeli war [...]
Leaked cable suggests US diplomats were briefed by the Red Cross of continued torture in Indian-administered Kashmir
Torture has been routinely used in prisons in Indian-administered Kashmir, a US cable released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks has suggested.
The cable, released on Thursday, says that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had briefed US diplomats [...]
“World bankers, by pulling a few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make or break entire economies. By controlling press releases of economic strategies that shape national trends, the power elite are able to not only tighten their stranglehold on this nation’s economic structure, but can extend that control world wide. Those [...]
Fears of bomb plan as witnesses tell US embassy that North Koreans are involved with underground facility in jungle
Witnesses in Burma claim to have seen evidence of secret nuclear and missile sites being built in remote jungle, according to secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, heightening concerns that the military regime is seeking to [...]
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slave of some defunct economist,” John Maynard Keynes once wrote. Politicians and pundits view the world through instincts and assumptions rooted in some philosopher’s Big Idea. Some ideas are old and taken for granted throughout society. For most Americans, [...]
A man reached 70 years of age and fell ill as he could not urinate. The doctors informed him that he needs an immediate operation. When the operation was completed, his doctor gave him the bill. The old man looked at the bill and started crying. The doctor told him that [...]
We certainly do live in interesting times, but I regard it as a great blessing rather than a curse, as our Chinese friends would have it. We have seen the world change repeatedly from the end of World War II to the current ongoing economic diminishment of America and Europe and so much in between [...]
