by  Jason Miller   “America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. [...]

By Francis Fukuyama Latin America, it is safe to say, gets no respect in Washington. Mention the region at a meeting of foreign policy cognoscenti who are not Latin America specialists, and eyes immediately glaze over. There may be a quick discussion of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, but attention will swiftly return to the Middle East, [...]

By Prof Khwaja Masud – Dawn – 20-10-07 ‘WHICH side of the barricade are you on’ This was the question posed to the intelligentsia by Maxim Gorky, during the mid-thirties of the last century, when fascism was on the rampage in Europe. This query is as relevant today as it was 70 years ago in [...]

by Jemima Khan* *Ms. Jemima Khan is the daughter of the late UK billionaire Sir James Goldsmith and the ex-wife of Pakistani cricketer turned politician Imran Khan. She is also an ambassador to UNICEF. She’s back. Hurrah! She’s a woman. She’s brave. She’s a moderate. She speaks good English. She’s Oxford-educated, no less. And she’s [...]

On the worst carnage in Pakistan’s history in which close to eight hundred innocent people were killed and maimed By Anwaar Hussain Today I weep for this blood-smeared mournful land that you have become, marooned in the blazing desert, torn and tormented, plundered and ravaged, disfigured by the scars of myriad wounds, tears dropping from [...]

Here is the plain truth of the matter, from the horse’s mouth Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to [...]

On the recent Turko-American rift on the Armenian genocide. Turkey votes to invade northern Iraq; Congress considers the Armenian genocide. The two are dangerously connected Standing before a blurred photograph of a ditch full of emaciated corpses, an elderly woman begins to cry. “The Turks are butchers,” hisses another. These women are among thousands of [...]