Who really creates value in an economy?
Sep 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – MARIANA MAZZUCATO LONDON — After the 2008 global financial crisis, a consensus emerged that the public sector had a responsibility to intervene to bail […]
Palestinians will survive UNRWA
Sep 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH Clearly, the motive behind defunding UNRWA is the termination of the 70-year-old Palestinian refugee problem. It is of course an Israeli […]
9/11 remembered: Robert Fisk’s close encounter with Osama Bin Laden, the man who shook the world
https://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/BkROavl6f_default/index.html?videoId=5833544243001&customParams=permutive%253D7496%2C7668%2C3446%2C3448%2C3449%2C3461%2C3509%2C3660%2C3482%2C3507%2C3537%2C3536%2C3709%2C3710%2C3749%2C3758%2C5069%2C3483%2C3528%2C4670%2C5476%2C5477%2C3535%2C3942%2C4335%2C3809%2C4808%2526videoID%253D5833544243001%2526articleId%253D8532256%2526gs_channels%253Dshadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist%2Csafe_from_harvey_weinstein%2Cshadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist%2Cbelvedere_negative%2Csafe_from_emirates_blacklist%2Csafe_from_emirates_crew_incident%2Csafe_from_facebook_blacklist%2Csafe_from_fas_blacklist%2Cgv_arms%2Cgv_death_injury%2526playertype%253Dclicktoplay%2526topictags%253D911%2Cosamabin_laden%2Cmiddleeast%2Csaudiarabia&customTargeting=%2F71347885%2F_main_independent%2Fin_voices%2Fin_voices_article&playsinline=true 9/11 remembered: Robert Fisk’s close encounter with Osama Bin Laden, the man who shook the world This is an edited extract from Robert Fisk’s book, ‘The Great War for Civilisation’, […]
Begum Kulsoom Nawaz passes away in London after battle with cancer
Source: Dawn Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, passed away in London on Tuesday after a months-long battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband […]
John Bolton threatens ICC with US sanctions
Source: BBC News The US has threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it goes ahead with prosecutions against Americans. The court is currently considering prosecuting US servicemen […]
Migrant crisis: Scores drown off Libyan coast
Source: BBC News More than 100 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coastline earlier this month, an aid agency says. Two rubber boats set off on 1 September […]
Film review: Is Fahrenheit 11/9 truly incendiary?
Source: BBC News Fahrenheit 9/11, the 2004 screed against George W Bush, remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time. But many argued that despite its box-office numbers it had little […]
The advantage team sports has over individual exercises
Do This Kind of Exercise If You Want to Live Longer, Study Says Source: Time Experts like to say the best form of exercise is whatever kind you’ll actually do. […]
Search Are flying taxis about to become a reality?
Source: CNN (CNN) — The prospect of a flying taxi that lifts you over the traffic and speeds you to your destination is an enticing one — but are we any […]
Teens Are Over Face-to-Face Communication, Study Says
Source: Time By KATY STEINMETZ September 10, 2018 When Common Sense surveyed roughly a thousand teenagers about their habits back in 2012, most of them said that their favorite way to […]
Florence is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane through landfall
Hurricane Florence Expected to Strengthen as It Barrels Toward North Carolina Coast Source: Time By CIARA NUGENT, ALIX LANGONE, and GINA MARTINEZ Hurricane Florence is tracking farther north and is expected to gain […]
Russian Cosmonaut Allays Concern About Hole in International Space Station
Source: Time By ASSOCIATED PRESS September 10, 2018 (MOSCOW) — A Russian crewmember on the International Space Station has recorded a video message to assuage concerns about an air leak on the orbiting outpost. In the video released Monday by Russian space agency Roscosmos, Sergei Prokopyev explained how the crew last […]
A Bishop Says The Church Will Cooperate With Vermont Investigators After BuzzFeed News’ Investigation Of Abuse At A Catholic Orphanage
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Talal Ansari The Diocese of Burlington will cooperate fully with authorities looking into allegations of abuse at the St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Bishop Christopher Coyne said Sunday, […]
Catholic clergyman calls on Wuerl to resign, says he’ll refuse to participate in Mass with him
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 10 at 2:37 PM A highly visible member of Washington’s Catholic clergy has made a dramatic declaration calling on Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign, […]
NY attorney general subpoenas state’s Catholic dioceses in connection with sex abuse investigation
Source: CNN By Mark Morales and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN)The New York attorney general has issued civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a civil […]
Every Ray of Light Gives Us Eternal Hope in God’s Providence
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He (Allah) reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:103/104) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the […]
Moot soon on Madressah reforms, Ahmadis
Kalbe Ali September 11, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), on Monday announced that the alliance of religio-political parties would soon […]
STATE MISDEEDS
SEP 11 2018 BY KHALED AHMED ATIF MIAN’S OUSTER FROM THE EAC IS MERELY THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF THE BIGOTRY FACED BY MEMBERS OF PAKISTAN’S AHMADIYYA COMMUNITY In the […]
A Novice Imran’s Wild Promises & Pakistan’s Off-Track Governance
CYRIL ALMEIDA Look at what Imran Khan said at the remembrance ceremony. See who the PTI has left to twist in the wind, again. Behold the embarrassment of the dam-water […]
Reality check: Atif Mian did not need the post – the EAC and Pakistan needed him
By Raza Habib Raja Published: September 10, 2018 Several days ago, when the controversy around Atif Mian’s appointment was beginning to erupt, a friend sent me a brief clip of […]