By Hans Vogel from english.pravda.ru The thruth will set you free, the truth is simple and what is simple tends to be beautiful and attractive. Yet neither individuals nor societies can function without bending the truth. As matter of fact, many conventions and accepted ideas are based on fiction or and expressed as myths, but [...]

The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune by Steve Coll   By Robert Vitalis* Steve Coll’s book tells two stories: a big one about how the bin Laden family cashed in on the oil bonanza in Saudi Arabia, and a smaller one about Osama’s role in the family business before he [...]

From Pravda. Ru In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about [...]

By Hanna Jaeckel I am sorry not to have gotten to this great article until this morning Anwaar. I have been teaching myself “international economics”, and it was a crash course of a 3-weeks duration. International Finance is nothing by comparison. God I feel jaded and cynical!! If the premises for your article were correct, then [...]

By Chris Floyd Don’t tell Obama and McCain, but the war they are both counting on to make their bones as commander-in-chief — the “good war” in Afghanistan, which both men have pledged to expand — is already lost. Their joint strategy of pouring more troops, tanks, missiles and planes into the roaring fire — [...]

By Huzaima Bukhari and Dr. Ikramul Haq The likely threat of military attack by the US and its allies in the tribal areas of Pakistan using the pretext of potential strike like 9/11 and increasing activities of the Taliban is creating fear and panic amongst masses. The main agenda behind this bizarre scheme is to [...]

What must never, repeat never, be done is to negotiate a treaty with these elements from a weaker position. A Pathan despises weakness as much in himself as in any one else. Such treaties are not worth the paper these are written on. By Anwaar Hussain The badlands were not always badlands. The Federally Administered [...]