By Angie Riedel It is time to get past the ‘death and violence is the answer’ mentality. We can not afford to let it continue. The US government now confronts every minor inconvenience with brutality and force. With lies. With tricks. With deceit. With unrivaled hypocrisy. It speaks a scripted and rehearsed dialog of illogic [...]

By Ahmed Rashid It is a sign of the times in Pakistan that Asif Ali Zardari, the man elected president today, had to move from his heavily fortified house in Islamabad to the even more heavily fortified prime minister’s residence. And not a moment too soon. There was an assassination attempt on prime minister Yousuf [...]

Murdering Mother Earth one forest, one species and one atom at a time By Jason Miller I am the earth.  You are the earth.  The Earth is dying.  You and I are murderers.  –Ymber Delecto What a sorry lot we humans are, particularly those of us immersed in the “American Way of Life.” Killing is [...]

A fictional satire, a satirical fiction, just a fiction, or just a satire, or indeed a distinct possibility, you decide. By Anwaar Hussain This is October 2010. As Pakistanis were busy distributing sweets celebrating the day old military coup in the streets and Bazaars of Pakistan, General Ashfaq Kiyani addressed the nation in his first [...]

By Irfan Husain One of the joys of being on the eastern coast of Canada is the availability of lobsters. Some time back we were invited to a lobster boil on the beach to celebrate our friend Giles Walker’s daughter Kaisa’s engagement, and each guest had one of the delicious crustaceans with lemon-butter sauce, apart [...]

By Eric Walberg Food protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months. On 2 April, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting in Washington that there are 33 countries where price hikes could cause widespread social unrest. The UN World Food Programme called the crisis the silent tsunami, [...]

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