Home run? Boundary 6? Dazzled them! some of them? I submit that these are not the most appropriate metaphors. Let us begin by distinguishing between Obama the celebrity and Obama the statesman - something that we ourselves have difficulty doing. The celebrity realm has its own logic (more accurately, non-logic) that has to do with image [...]
American actions in the ‘war on terror’ have been driven by fear – at home and abroad. Fear that it may happen again, fear of the unknown, fear of the alien. It explains not only the radical thrust of Washington’s actions in the Greater Middle East but also the dulling of critical faculties. That pertains [...]
Drawing up a scorecard of winners and losers from the financial crisis and the resulting global economic downturn is relatively easy if we concentrate on straightforward economic effects, and if we think of them in the short term. Political ramifications, especially over the longer term, are more difficult to calculate. [...]
Where as very thought fully the grounds were soften up and prepared prior to the speech of Obama to Muslim world from Egypt; firstly a day earlier, the Osama bin laden’s Lieutenant Eman Zowahari appearance and lately of Osama bin laden by himself on AL Jazeera TV, the minutes after the President Barrack Obama touched down [...]
The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.
The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues [...]
LONDON — (Associted press- 02 June 2009) President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.
In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside [...]
Senior U.S. diplomats have recently arranged a limited reception in Islamabad where senior civil servants were invited to meet an Indian diplomat suspected of being an intelligence officer. Is this the new mission of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—While Pakistan is busy in battling a foreign-funded local proxy Taliban in Swat, [...]
A few—and only a few—prescient commentators have questioned whether the U.S. can sustain its informal global empire in the wake of the most severe economic crisis since World War II. And the simultaneous quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading more and more opinion leaders and taxpayers to this question. But the U.S. Empire helped [...]
The world led by United States has always trusted the ruling elite of the Pakistan. They have always supported and propped up the pygmies leader in the Pakistan just to safeguard their interests, which seemingly never have materialized enough to satisfy the clowns in the Pentagon.
Washington has been forcing Pakistan’s government, [...]
United States of America sometimes gives laurels to the democratic forces in Pakistan and sometimes to the military leadership. America hand out their aid, donations, loans and other support to the elite and then forgets about it. It always forgets about the common people of Pakistan who actually matter.
Who has actually suffered as a result [...]
