A Letter to Neocons

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by Anwaar Hussain

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Dear Neocons,

It is show time over Iran. You are in a bind of your own making and, boy, am I glad to see that!

Allow me to explain.

The directly increasing Iranian belligerence vis-à-vis your pressure on Iran’s nuclear program indicates that a decision time has finally arrived. Your spokesman, the President of United States, having earlier included Iran as an integral part of the ‘axis of evil’ in a rush of blood, simply does not leave you with a ‘do-nothing’ option. You now have either to put up or shut up, once and for all. Read more



Viva Fascismo

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by Anwaar Hussain

Picture: Poster in Helsinki, Finland, September 2006.

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‘Fascismo’ is the Italian for Fascism. Strictly speaking, the term is relevant to the autocratic political movement that ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.

Fascismo, however, is also applied to Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler and, loosely, to all other authoritarian-cum-totalitarian regimes since then.

Fascismo is characterized by dictatorial attempts to impose state control over all aspects of citizens’ lives: ranging from political and social to cultural, and economic. Fascismo lauds the nation, state, or race as superior to individuals, institutions, or groups composing it. As an attractive façade, and to whip up mass support, fascismo uses popular rhetoric, calls for a heroic collective effort towards make-believe goals and demands loyalty to a single leader or group of leaders. Read more



A Pakistani Rosa Parks?

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by Anwaar Hussain

Picture: Ms. Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks

A young Pakistani girl student belonging to the Christian faith has delivered a massive blow to our collective hippocratic attitude toward our minorities with a simple query. She dared to ask a straight forward question of Pakistani Courts. Her question is;

Am I, a Pakistani Christian, equal to a fellow Muslim citizen?

A little background would help the reader better understand her question. Read more



The Strappado Rendition

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by Anwaar Hussain

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In one of the most widely disseminated images from the Abu Ghuraib scandal, the thuggish grinning faces of Specialists Sabrina Harman and Charles Garner peer out with an evil force. Each is offering a “thumbs-up” gesture as if posing for a pride of performance award.

In the background is a cellophane wrapped, ice packed corpse of one Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi who was tortured to death during interrogation at Abu Ghuraib prison. The U.S. military ruled the death a homicide. Read more



Our Man Cheney

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by Anwaar Hussain

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William I was King of England from 1066 to 1087. He was also known as William of Normandy, William the Conqueror and William the Bastard. He earned the last title due to the fact that he was the illegitimate and only son of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, and Herleva, the daughter of Fulbert, a tanner. William succeeded to the throne of England by right of conquest by winning the decisive Battle of Hastings in 1066 and suppressing subsequent English revolts, in what has become known as the Norman Conquest. Following the Norman Conquest, the machinery of government developed further, producing long-lived national institutions including Parliament. Four Norman kings presided over a period of great change and development for Britain. The Domesday Book, a great record of English land-holding, was published; the forests were extended; the Exchequer was founded; and a start was made on the Tower of London. Read more



A Kick in the Shin?

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by Anwaar Hussain

Picture: General Mohammed Elbaradei.

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Is the 2005 Peace Nobel for Mohamed ElBaradei a kick in the shin for the US Government or a routine award?

Born on June 17, 1942, in Cairo, Mohamed ElBaradei is the son of the late Mostafa ElBaradei, lawyer and former president of the Egyptian Bar Association. He earned his Bachelor of Law degree at the University of Cairo in 1962, and doctorate in International Law at the New York University School of Law in 1974, receiving several other honorary degrees along the way.

ElBaradei joined Egyptian diplomatic service in 1964, serving in missions to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, in charge of political, legal and arms-control issues. He joined the IAEA in 1984 and held a series of high posts before succeeding Hans Blix as director general in 1997. A charge that he holds to date after being reappointed to the same portfolio for a second and a third term in years 2001 and 2005 respectively despite firm opposition from the United States. Read more









Anwaar’s articles appear simultaneously here at Truth Spring and at Soul Vibes in The Pakistan Tribune.


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