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Obama’s Domestic Headaches and Pakistan

By Jalal Ahmad • Oct 3rd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Current deterioration in Pak-US relations has its roots in domestic US politics. President Obama is under intense political pressure in the run up to presidential elections on issues such as economy, health care reform and will have to face the public over his failure to bring home the troops he so famously promised and end [...]



Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe

By Guest Blogger • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on [...]



Hillary Out , Now It’s Obama vs McCain

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

According to The Associated Press tally, based on primary elections, state Democratic caucuses and support from superdelegates. It took 2,118 delegates to clinch the nomination at the convention in Denver this summer, and Obama had 2,154 by the AP count. So are we going to have an African American President in the world’s most powerful [...]