Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari WASHINGTON: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was so scared of a military coup after Osama bin Laden’s death that he was ready to create a “new security team” favourable to Americans and promised the US to hand over Pak-based 26/11 perpetrators including those […]
Washington, DC – As President Obama travels to Bali for this week’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, Human Rights First is urging him to question the Indonesian government about ongoing human rights concerns, including impunity for human rights abuses. Human Rights First was in Indonesia this week meeting […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington has offered to resign after reports that his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari, asked Washington for help to stave off a military takeover. A Pakistani businessman alleged in a column in the Financial Times last month that a senior Pakistani diplomat asked for […]
Source: Asia Times: Iran has reacted sharply to a joint United States and Saudi Arabia bid for a United Nations resolution accusing it violating diplomatic treaties and calling on Tehran to cooperate in ongoing investigations into shaky allegations of a terror plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington. American […]
Ron Paul is a presidential candiate from the republican party. Here is some of what he said yesterday on CBS during republican candidates debate.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich said at the Republican presidential debate here Saturday night that they would be willing to go to war to keep Iran from attaining nuclear weapons if all other strategies failed. http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf Romney said that if “crippling sanctions” and other strategies fail, military […]
Dwolla was founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne; it’s an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-28-year-old-is-making-sure-credit-cards-wont-exist-in-the-next-few-years-2011-11#ixzz1dXrVFeRD
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon After an extended stay in the United States that allowed me to speak with Middle East specialists and interested citizens in many cities, I sense a new theme that broadly defines American attitudes to developments in the Middle East: perplexity. Of course, […]
Muslims for Remembrance! (Toronto November 10, 2011): Muslims youth will be standing outside mosques across Canada on Friday November 11th to raise awareness of the sacrifices made by Canadians and to collect money for the Poppy Appeal. The sermons from the pulpit will echo their message of loyalty to country […]
Source / Credit: The Leduc Rep Educating Leduc residents was the goal of the Holy Qur’an open house held at the Leduc Public Library on Nov. 2. The tour has traveled to more than 230 communities across Canada in the past year. “We want people to know about the Qur’an […]
Say, ‘Travel in the earth and see how evil was the end of the sinful!’ (Al Quran 27:70) …
Source: Daily Times: ISLAMABAD: The head of the Homeland Security delegation, Michael McCaul, downplayed the significance of President Asif Ali Zardari’s remarks about “eradicating” the Haqqani network, saying it was unclear whether President Zardari had the power to make good on his pledge, given the influence of the military in […]
Source: asiatimes on line: WASHINGTON – Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of all remaining United States troops from Iraq by the end of next month, a familiar clutch of neo-conservative hawks and prominent Republicans are blaming the president for “losing” the Middle Eastern country to its […]
Source: Asiatimes on line: Get ready for a flurry of fuzzy satellite ”intelligence” of generic warehouses all across Iran frantically described as segments of a nuclear bomb assembly line (Remember a famous ”secret nuclear facility” in Syria not long ago? It was a textile factory.) Get ready for a flurry […]
Courtesy / Source: CNN NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Move over Congress. Move over President Obama. Bill Clinton is back — and he has a lot of economy-fixing ideas. The elder Democratic statesman has crammed his latest book — called “Back to Work” — with dozens upon dozens of policy […]
New census estimates show the number of Americans living in poverty has risen to almost 50 million — 16 percent of the U.S. population. That’s up from 46.2 million people reported in September. The new figure of 49.1 million takes into account higher prices for everyday costs and medical expenses. […]
Courtesy: NY Times November 3, 2011 Oligarchy, American Style By PAUL KRUGMAN Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It’s time to roll out the obfuscators! Anyone who has […]
Source: Times of India Two recent events have brought home some ugly truths. A Sri Lankan-origin Australian tried (unsuccessfully) to lay charges against the president of Sri Lanka, visiting Perth to attend the Commonwealth summit, for alleged war crimes in the war against the Tamil Tigers. Another former head of […]
source:asiatimes on line Anyone who hoped the Arab Spring might eventually take over the Persian Gulf and those lands once known as Arabia Felix has enough reason to drown in sadness. The Arab counter-revolution is stronger than ever – led by the House of Saud and its monarchy minions at […]
source Daily Times A central Texas gun dealer ran radio ads advising “Socialist” liberals, those who voted for President Barack Obama, Arabs and Muslims that they need not apply for his concealed gun license class. Crockett Keller, who owns Keller’s Riverside Store, ran the ads on the radio station in […]