By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon I had a particularly enlightening and depressing day last week as a student of American democracy and Arab-Israeli diplomacy. I know better now why most Arabs have totally given up on expecting anything positive or fair to emerge from the United States […]
source. dawn.com Afghan policemen leave the site of an attack in Kabul September 14, 2011. US officials suspect militants from the Haqqani network were behind the attack. –Reuters ISLAMABAD: The US warning on militants based in Pakistan goes against counter-terrorism cooperation between the two allies, the foreign ministry said on […]
Source. Asia Times on Line WASHINGTON – General David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counter-insurgency manual that the United States command headquarters should establish a “narrative” for the counter-insurgency war – a simple storyline that provides a framework for understanding events, both for the population of the country in question […]
Source: Asia Times on line By Mike Davis Someday, a new Edward Gibbon in China or India will surely sit down to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Hopefully it will be but one volume in a larger, more progressive oeuvre – The Renaissance […]
source. times of india WASHINGTON: America’s new intelligence chief David Petraeus has predicted that al-Qaida leaders may flee Afghanistan and the entire south Asia as they were being pressed hard by American forces. More:
Obama: Palestinian statehood vote at UN would be counterproductive U.S. president says he would oppose vote if it reaches the UN Security Council, calls efforts ‘distraction’. U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that if the Palestinians try to achieve statehood in the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. would oppose […]
Source: Asia Times on line. As the United States and its allies mourn the attacks of 10 years ago, it is worth placing those events and their consequences into a cohesive intellectual and geopolitical perspective. September 11, 2001, constituted the most audacious and deadly terrorist attacks in modern times. But […]
Suppression of one’s own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated. Noam Chomsky We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1, the presumed mastermind of the […]
Source: TOI on line One of the consequences of 9/11 was that national security became big business. Just how much has this protective cover cost the American taxpayer? Figuring that out is not easy given the fog that surrounds US defense expenditure. But a citizens’ group called National Priorities Project […]
source:times of india WASHINGTON: The Taliban have said that their movement had no role in the 9/11 terror attacks and accused the United States of using the incident to invade Afghanistan where they have killed tens of thousands of innocent Afghans. In a defiant statement emailed to media, the Taliban […]
Haaretz: Here destruction is met with a resolve to do good. Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai is able to look past the tragedy. He seeks to rebuild his broken world on hesed, loving kindness, as it teaches in the book of Psalms. His words of comfort lay out a vision for […]
By Tom Heneghan, Reuters, Jordan Times CAMBRIDGE, England – When Henry Kissinger published “Diplomacy”, his study of international relations, in 1994, it had no index entries for Islam or religion. Ten years later, another US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, wrote her own study on world affairs: “The Mighty and […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon To arrive in the United States, as I did a few days ago, one week before the 10th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks is to reach a land that is, remarkably, little changed from what it was on that shocking […]
Source: Daily Times Pakistan When the Pentagon taps the best of our multi-lingual talent pool and tasks them with manipulating software sock puppets, it smacks of monumental stupidity. It is an adult daycare software programme and who knows which individuals will end up in their playpen The Guardian ran a […]
Source: asiatimes on line The past decade, with its torture, renditions, black sites and drone assassination campaigns, has had little to do with bringing anyone to “justice”, and especially not Osama bin Laden. Why was it, then, that the Barack Obama administration chose to assassinate the al-Qaeda leader, rather than […]
Source. Asiatimes on Line The West in vain tries to find a form of agony worthy of its past – E M Cioran Enduring Freedom is how the United States government defined its official, military response to 9/11. It should have been Operation Infinite Justice; but then some apparatchik found […]
Source: Asiatimes on Line By Pepe Escobar Call it the Friends of Libya war; the R2P war (as in “responsibility to protect” Western plunder); the Air France war; the Total war; anyway, the “friends” had a blast spinning their win in Libya, which magically is not in Africa anymore. It has […]
SOURCE: ARABNEWS The WikiLeaks spotlight is once again trained on American war crimes in Iraq WikiLeaks finds itself in the spotlight all over again. The decision of the whistleblower website to put its full “unredacted” archive of more than 250,000 US government cables online has led to an uproar in […]
Source; Times of India NEW YORK: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has signed into law a bill initiated by the Sikh Coalition to significantly enhance religion-based protections for employees working in the metropolis. “Today’s law is a major step forward in ensuring Sikhs and other religious minorities are not […]
Source: Times of India WASHINGTON: A US-based Sikh community advocacy group has sought UN intervention to persuade India to pass a law for separate registration of Sikh marriages. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) Wednesday submitted a memorandum to UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Heiner Bielefeldt seeking UN […]