China’s pacific overtures
ahsanBy Simon Winchester The dangerous game of chicken now being played out in the South China Sea, with American warships sailing provocatively close to a clutch of new-made Chinese islands,…
Road map for China’s 2020 vision
By Pepe Escobar Everybody's doing the Shisanwu. Well, at least hundreds of millions of Chinese are. Here's the pop version; call it the new Chinese five-year plan for dummies. You…
Start of CPEC witnesses socio-economic activities in Balochistan
Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said social and economic activities have started in Balochistan along with the roads being constructed there as part of…
The army’s call for accountability
By Saeed Malik There are many definitions of Democracy. One of these which hits the mark is that Democracy is a system of government which holds the rulers accountable. Another…
JFK’s forgotten CIA crisis
During a spectacular dinner at Mount Vernon, Kennedy pressed Pakistan's leader for help with a sensitive spy operation against China. The magic of the Kennedy White House, Camelot, had settled…
Putting US forces onto sovereign Syrian territory, is an act of war
By Patrick J. Buchanan The United States is being sucked into a new Middle East war,” says The New York Times. And the Times has it exactly right. Despite repeated…
Close Guantanamo and return it to Cuba
By Marjorie Cohn Obama has yet to fulfill the promise he made in his January 22, 2009 executive order to shutter Guantanamo “no later than one year from the date…
Arming dictators – An American tradition
By Mel Gurtov Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid-package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to…
Consumerism: The Root Cause of all Evil
A Perfect World Imagine waking up on a Monday morning feeling euphoric in spite it being a working weekday. You get up on time, get dressed with a big smile…
From Africa’s wealthiest democracy under Gaddafi, to US – NATO sponsored terrorist heaven
By Garikai Chengu October 20, marks the four-year anniversary of the US-backed assassination of Libya's former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and the decline into chaos of one of Africa's greatest nations.…
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