Year: 2013

Superman vs. Jesus

Huff Post: Superman is Jesus. More precisely, in the new movie, Superman: Man of Steel, we are meant to draw very distinct parallels between Superman and Jesus. Arguably, the movie goes a step further making Superman the modern-day, Americanized Jesus. [If you have not seen the movie and do not want […]

Big Brother is watching Pakistan

Dawn: It’s reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’, but it’s real life – the US government’s extensive surveillance programme also applied to foreign citizens, and Pakistan is no exception. As a result of the US government’s PRISM and Boundless Informant programme, nearly 13.5 billion pieces of “intelligence” were collected in […]

Spiritual But Not Religious

Huff Post: by Weston Pew. In a country and world that is addicted to war, consumption, incarceration, inequality and the pillaging of Earth’s precious resources (which are on loan to us by future generations) it is simply not enough to speak every Sunday about loving thy neighbor. Sermons, lectures, and […]

How to End the Stalemate With Iran

By SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN and MOHAMMAD ALI SHABANI The New York Times THE stunning election of a pragmatic former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, has offered the Obama administration a once-in-a-lifetime chance to end the atomic stalemate with Iran. In the West, Mr. Rowhani is widely seen as a turbaned […]