By Anwaar Hussain Everybody loves Raymond, the double slayer. The Pakistani Government ‘loves’ him to the extent that they are willing to bend the rules to grant him diplomatic immunity from prosecution for the twin killings that he committed in Lahore. They ‘love’ him for the large one-time dose of Manna, over and above the [...]

By Anwaar Hussain While the American colonial goliath lies wheezing at the callused feet of its adversaries in Afghanistan, its commander General Stanley McChrystal has been fired by President Obama for his indiscrete comments to the media. Not many tears are being shed on the general’s fall. Almost everyone who is any one in Washington [...]

By Anwaar Hussain After crawling out of the woodwork where they hibernated for decades, the ex-spooks of Inter Services Intelligence are singing like canaries on the national media. In a blizzard of accusations and counter-accusations, ranging from secret funds used to prop up political alliances to brazen smear campaigns against political leaders, they are revealing [...]

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 [...]

By Bill Noxid It took a particularly long time to find any hint of reality on television yesterday. I decided that I wasn’t interested in watching the still complicit media and criminally culpable government pretend to morn the deaths of September 11, so my options were even more limited than usual. All of the cable [...]

An Essay On The Indictment Movement By Bruce R. Marshall “If the American people really knew what we had done, we would be chased down the street and lynched.” — President George H.W.Bush to White House correspondent Sara McClendon, 1992 The call initiated by patriotic citizens in Brattleboro Vermont for the indictment of Bush and [...]