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Gaming The Voters

Gaming The Voters

Like millions of my countrymen, I have been following the “debate” in Washington over whether it’s better to walk to work or carry your lunch, which is how the “conversation” appears to me. The Three Stooges would have been proud of the script. Cable news has been dishing up a toxic smorgasbord of lies, half-truths [...]

Egypt: Arab Spring Morphs Into Summer Of Conflict

Egypt: Arab Spring Morphs Into Summer Of Conflict

It should have been expected that the various groups who demonstrated in such a strong, unified position in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt would begin to show their differences after Mubarak resigned. After all, they won! So what to do now? Governing is a lot harder than demonstrating. And, besides, they weren’t the government; [...]

Israel: An Impediment To A Nuclear-Free Middle East

Israel: An Impediment To A Nuclear-Free Middle East

You might have frequently heard of the Western mainstream media’s claims that Iran is pursuing a military nuclear program which is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Actually, spreading falsehood and untruth about the nature of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program has been a constant, unchanging and recurring theme of the Western corporate media’s coverage of Iran’s [...]

New Hampshire Or Bus: Sarah’s No-Campaign Campaign Tour

New Hampshire Or Bus: Sarah’s No-Campaign Campaign Tour

Speeding along city streets, going from somewhere to somewhere else, was the Sarah Palin “One Nation I’m Not Running for Anything But Follow Me Anyhow” bus chase. Following her were about two dozen reporters and photographers from the national news media, and now and then some local news teams, many of whom violated traffic laws [...]

Who Cares About The Iranian People?

Who Cares About The Iranian People?

The world countries are competing with each other in imposing new financial sanctions against Iran. While the Iranian people still hasn’t forgotten the bitter memory of 8-year war with the Baathist Iraq which was masterminded and fostered by the United States and its European allies, new rounds of crippling sanctions directed against the most strategic [...]

Memorial Day 2011: Two Names That Matter

Memorial Day 2011: Two Names That Matter

Unless you were in a coma the past few years, you probably know who Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton are. You heard about them on radio, saw them on television. You read about them in newspapers and magazines, on Facebook, Twitter, and every social medium known to mankind. Because of extensive media coverage, [...]

The Audacity Of Hate: Birthers, Deathers, Deniers, And Barack Obama

The Audacity Of Hate: Birthers, Deathers, Deniers, And Barack Obama

The latest garbage spewing hate as it circles the Internet in a viral state of panic continues a three year smear against Barack Obama. The attacks had begun with the extreme right wing spitting out Obama’s full name—Barack HUSSEIN Obama, as if somehow he wasn’t an American but connected to the Iraqi dictator who, despite [...]

The News, It Is A-Changin’

The News, It Is A-Changin’

It was a little before 9 a.m. I was chatting with two students. Another student came in, and asked if we had heard a plane had hit a building in New York City. We hadn’t, but I assumed it was a light private plane, and the pilot had mechanical difficulty or problems with wind turbulence. [...]

Egypt: What Else Is The Army Not Doing?

Egypt: What Else Is The Army Not Doing?

Over the weekend, as I was writing a piece about the failure of the Egyptian Army to put a stop to former President Mubarak’s grisly practice of arresting people on the flimsiest grounds and then proceeding to detain, torture and abuse them, I was reminded of a couple of other big things the Army isn’t [...]

Made In Pakistan

Made In Pakistan

Growing up in Afghanistan in the late seventies and early eighties, my grandfather admonished me to never purchase any product made in Pakistan. Like many Afghans, I sincerely appreciated my grandfather’s wisdom, but I never had the courage to question it, why? So one day at school, I asked a friend, who was also told [...]

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