Tomgram: John Brown, Invading Washington Over the last seven years, it’s often been said that George W. Bush exists in a bubble. When it comes to the cast of characters in his administration — and the Washington Consensus generally — it turns out he isn’t alone. The other night I watched Harvard academic Joseph Nye [...]

The Case Of Fooling Most Of The People, Most Of The Time By John Chuckman This year marks the forty-fourth anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination. What is most remarkable about this is the stunningly simple fact that, despite innumerable books and several official investigations, we still do not know what happened in 1963. Not understanding [...]

TS Admin : Norman Mailer died November 10th 2007. His following essay was published in July 2003 issue of The New York Review of Books. By Norman Mailer The stage, however, remains occupied. The question posed at curtain-rise has not been answered. Why did we go to war? If no real weapons of mass destruction [...]

‘By Anwaar Hussain This piece is neither an attempt at defamatory lampoon nor a noxious ridicule of General Musharraf’s actions. It is with a heavy heart indeed that one pens these lines. With heavy heart because one is a personal witness to the qualities of head and heart of the esteemed general. For those qualities [...]

Interfaith Dialogue Should Focus on Man not God The Pope Rejects Muslim Outreach (Speech given by Ali Baghdadi at Northeastern University, Chicago, Interfaith Dialogue Day, Nov 13,2007) TS Admin : I am glad to know of another Muslim with whom I have a commonality of thought, by and large. I had written my article The [...]

By Jason Miller  ”Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” -Winston Smith from George Orwell’s 1984 If you needed more evidence that most of our “esteemed” members of Congress are members of a criminal class of ruling elites, who regard the likes of us in the poor and working classes with the disdain most [...]

Pakistani Lawyers vs. American Lawyers By Ralph Nader One of the most noticed photographs in the newspapers last week was that of a well-dressed Pakistani lawyer on the streets hurling back a tear gas canister toward the soldiers who were suppressing a demonstration by lawyers protesting the martial law (called “emergency rule”) of Gen. Pervez [...]