You can help find a cure for paralysis and help people like Chase walk again.On April 26, five-year-old Chase Ford will be participating in the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon. But it’s not just Chase’s young age that will make this feat so amazing.
It was almost three years ago that Chase fell and hit his head [...]
Mr Heinrich Buecker from Berlin very kindly drew my attention to the following cause one of these days. You are requested to visit the site and see if you can join the cause. I am for it.
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Please take a look at war-is-illegal.org an international declaration initiated by some shops and international artists in [...]
[Introduction: It cannot be denied that the heartrending events of September 11, 2001, changed all our lives. I saw the sad events on CNN and was really shocked. Could anything in the world really force anyone to perpetrate such brutal crimes? But again being a journalist/writer in his early career I was acquainted with the [...]
Book reading these days is considered an onerous pastime. While it is an activity so important that we can hardly afford to call it a hobby, those who do and yet cannot spare time for it complain that there are so many books in the market that you cannot effectively sift from it. For those [...]
‘You Have to Rethink War’
An ex-CIA spymaster critiques America’s war on Al Qaeda.
By Jeffrey Bartholet | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Mar 3, 2008 | Updated: 3:28 p.m. ET Mar 3, 2008
Henry “Hank” Crumpton has spent most of his career as a spy or spymaster for the Central Intelligence Agency. An expert on running covert operations [...]
Today I received an email from Manal Ahmad on behalf of American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)’s Frontline/world and Christian Science Monitor. The mail invited our readers to preview an investigative video report (See Part 1/ Part 2/ Interview of the reporter) on the Talbanization in Swat and Musharraf’s imposition of [...]
There is a lot of talk going on regarding the fate of the war on terror expecially after the change of the tide in Pakistani politics. Most of these concerns are misplaced because the real partners, the legitimate ones in this war are now taking charge in Islamabad. Pakistan People’s Party the [...]
Change is nigh and the world is watching the US presidential race with increasingn interest. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both managed to stay in the race with considerable grace. Having read the writings of both the leaders it is difficult for me to tell who has promise. Obama’s Audacity of hope and Clinton’s [...]
If you think there was any room for conscience in the actions of states, please try to rethink the things through. The establishments of all countries behave in same fashion. While the western leaders pay great lip service to the cause of democracy their hearts remain with the dictators. Take the example of Keith Ryan’s [...]
Any conjecture on Keith Ryan would be premature at this hour however his death indeed leaves behind some harrowing questions. Why would a diplomat despite having worked in uncountable stressful places all of a sudden commit suicide? Why such things are only happening in Pakistan? After all, these days you don’t even find diplomats killing [...]
