By Anwaar Hussain
The text books that are taught to Pakistani children recount exploits of numerous past Muslim heroes in them. Standing tall amongst these heroes is one Arab by the name of Muhammad bin Qasim, born on 31 December 695 in the city of Taif in modern day Saudi Arabia.
Following are just some of the [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
President Obama’s decision to surge the troops’ level in Afghanistan is understandable. That is the only thing America can do in fact. They cannot just pack their bags and go home. They are losing the war with the present troop strength. All other conventional tactics have been tried out. The troop surge in [...]

By Bill Noxid
The most disturbing consequence of the election of the first African-American president is the delusional rush to pretend that this country that was founded ( and continues to function ) on genocide and slavery, is somehow “past” racism.  Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth, and the fact that society as a [...]

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 I would [...]

By Zafar Masud
AT 67, André de la Roche stands ramrod straight and a full head taller than one’s idea of an averagely tall person.
Hard labour here at his ancestral vineyards by the Loire river in central France has imparted this mild-mannered Parisian intellectual a lean, muscled physique.
The descendant of an old aristocratic family, André now [...]

By Jason Miller
Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using against us, it can also be our salvation.
We are facing swarms of [...]

By James Petras – march 2008

Picture: A North American Cree Nation proverb: “Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
Introduction
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading [...]