The Police State and Moral Relativism
By Nelson Hultberg.
An insidious police state is stealing over America today. We as a country have become like a freezing man slipping off to sleep in a blizzard, incapable of recognizing the demise of the liberty and honor on which [...]
Afghanistan — Peace and Security
By Mir Muhammad Ali Talpur.
Writing about Afghanistan is difficult even for those who are there and are in touch with the people on all sides of the divide. The real analysts of Afghanistan are never foolhardy and keep [...]
Netanyahu’s peace bete noire
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rivzi.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed rejection of a French peace initiative, telling the visiting French prime minister that peace cannot be forged through international conferences but only [...]
Oman: a Peaceful Oasis in a Flaming region
In a fractious, unstable region rife with conflicts, one country appears to be unscathed. It is telling that Oman emerged not only intact from the ramifications of the Arab Spring, but also shied away from the tense polarisation that has hijacked [...]
Iraq – Goals of the ISIS bombing campaign
By Rick Francona.
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Over the past few months, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of bombings in and around Baghdad – it has become almost a daily occurrence. The bombs include improvised explosive devices, car [...]
London’s Muslim mayorship ushers in new heraldry
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi .
In the given European situation where in Islamophobia is at its zenith, the rising of a Muslim mayor of London serves to hold sufficient warrants to the fact that to the Londoners the choice regarding [...]
The Crisis Of The Neoliberal Model Of Higher Eduction
By Jon Kofas.
Introduction
A nation’s higher education system reflects the ideological and political institutional mainstream as a whole. This has been the case since the founding of universities in the late Middle Ages (University [...]
10 reasons Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump
By Robert Steele.
1. The economy is good enough.
FALSE. Thom Hartmann, a Democratic author, is on record with his book, The Crash of 2016, and recent commentary, to the effect that all of the good economic news is a fraud. [...]
Congress’ aid cut & Pakistan’s concerns
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
The US Congress has recently put a spanner in the sale of F16s to Pakistan on concessional rates. The Congress’ no puts a big question mark on the US-Pakistan synergies regarding the ongoing war [...]
Why Latino’s Will Deliver the Presidency To Trump
By Tony Mele.
The October surprise in the 2016 Presidential election will be the astounding number of self-identified Latinos who will vote for Trump in numbers that will swing the election and deliver the White House to the [...]
Leaked interior ministry memos highlight differences within Egypt’s regime
By James M. Dorsey.
Leaked memos from Egypt’s interior ministry discussing ways to counter mounting public anger at the government of general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi raise the spectre of a split between the military [...]
Can debating skills help reduce youth extremism in Tunisia?
By Christine Petre.
Should citizens give up some of their rights in the interest of national security? This and many other questions were up for debate when Tunisian youth came together in the capital of Tunis recently to address [...]
USIP Report:” Terrorism Prosecution in Pakistan”
By Manzar Zaidi.
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Compounding these problems is the high number of cases going through the ATCs, notably due to the 1997 Anti-Terrorism Act’s broad definition of terrorism. Any reforms or new laws [...]
“Modernization Theory” and “Third Wave Democracy”: Internal and External Impediments to Democracy and Development
By Jon Kofas.
Introduction
Known mostly for The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order (1996) Samuel Huntington, like Francis Fukuyama (End of History and the Last Man, 1992), caught the interest of apologists [...]
Revisiting the Indus water treaty
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
Revisiting the Indus water treaty
The Pakistan Senate passed on Monday a resolution asking the government to “revisit” the 46-year-old Indus Waters Treaty on water sharing with India. “This [...]
Syria: The impending fall of Aleppo
By Rick Francona.
The city of Aleppo will fall in the near future – the anti-regime rebels in the remaining contested areas of the city will not be able to hold out much longer.
The graphic (left) epitomizes the pessimism [...]
Revisiting the Iranian election: 2016 Analysis
By Maha Hamdan.
Observers who portrayed the elections as a battle between ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ have tied themselves in knots – especially after reporting earlier that nearly all reformists had been disqualified [...]
President Obama orders 250 more American troops to Syria – what’s the plan?
By Rick Francona.
President Obama has ordered the phased deployment of an additional 250 U.S. troops to Syria to intensify the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It is expected that most of these troops will [...]
Expansion of India’s civil nuclear program via US backing?
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
Thanks to the US-India nuclear deal, there have been new developments regarding the expansion of Indian nuclear power programme, offering serious deliberations. Apparently the course of these developments comes [...]
Shockwave Approaching – The Return of the Ugly German
By Oliver Krumme.
What has been predicted for the past months has now happened. At today’s regional elections in three federal states – Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Saxony Anhalt – the right-wing AfD party [...]