The New York Times recently ran an article questioning why the West was so concerned about the plight of the Palestinians yet cared not a whit about the suffering of the Balochs at the hands of the Pakistani military. It seemed curious when I read it. The Balochs, after all,
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Assange Indicted, but for What?
The Stratfor intelligence company emails, leaked this week by WikiLeaks, have revealed that a private security agency has obtained classified information from the US Government (by the admission of Stratfor employees in emails they expected to remain confidential). It’s also revealed that Assange has a “secret” indictment against him, which
Continue readingRedBedHead: Republican Contest: Battle Of The Scumbags
Where do they dig up these cretins? I mean, is it really possible that in the 21st century these guys can be the front runners of one of America’s two mainstream parties to be the next president? Seriously? On the bright side, I can’t see how the Republicans can possibly
Continue readingLeDaro: US/NATO Attack Kills 24 Pakistani Soldiers
It’s a very scary incident, which makes America’s already strained relations with Pakistan even worse. Some Pakistanis are talking about retaliation, I hope there is none. Pakistan is a nuclear power and if those nukes get into the wrong hands, God help us. It would be a very dangerous situation.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: GOP Foreign Policy Debate: Iran, Covert Ops, and Sanctions
While most of the CBS GOP Presidential Nomination debate on foreign policy in South Carolina was predictably following the standard script, there was one issue that somewhat surprised me. That is, the extent to which multiple candidates were very empha…
Continue readingLeDaro: US/NATO is winning in Afghanistan??
Great victory eh! Once U.S and NATO forces leave, not only will Afghanistan fall back in the hands of the Taliban but also Pakistan and maybe Iran. Pakistan is becoming more fanatic religiously. Since 1978 Pashtuns from Afghanistan have taking refuge i…
Continue readingCIA undermines aid agencies
That the CIA does sleazy stuff is hardly new. Perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised then that they exploited children to help track Osama bin Laden.In order to confirm his presence in Abbottabad, they sought DNA samples from the residents of what th…
Continue readingRedBedHead: US Sacrificed Aid Agencies That Help Children To Kill Bin Laden
If you ever had any doubt that the hunt to locate and then kill Osama bin Laden was about anything other than vengeance and demonstrating to the world that Captain USA always gets his man, this latest revelation ought to dispel that. First, it was reve…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Pakistan: When Thieves Fall Out
As Neil Sedaka once crooned “breaking up is hard to do”, especially when you’re a superpower who needs the help of an unstable and corrupt government to have any chance of defeating an insurgency. It looks like the USA is just beginning to figure out w…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Nuclear weapons and motivations for Libya and Iran
Perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the non-proliferation movement was the 2003 decision by Colonel Qaddafi of Libya to entirely abandon his nuclear, chemical and biological weapons program, throwing open the doors to inspectors and allowing the pr…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The left’s opinion change on Pakistan and the drone war
The issue of the drone war and the public reception to it, particularly among progressives, demonstrates both the strength and failings of that movement. The hallmark test of legitimacy for any body that espouses political opinion is and must be consis…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Get Out of Afghanistan. We’ve Seen This Movie Before
It’s like a geo-political take on one of those slasher movies in a haunted house. Danger lurks behind every door.The haunted house is Pakistan. Danger lurks everywhere – along its border with Afghanistan, in the disputed Kashmir region, alo…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: China Now Wants a Military Presence in Pakistan Tribal Areas
In the wake of two terrorist bombings in Xinjiang province, China wants to hunt down Uyghur militants it claims are being trained in Pakistan’s ungovernable tribal areas.Since the blasts, which killed 18, Chinese official…
Continue readingStability in South Asia?
Suspended because of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, peace talks between India and Pakistan are back on. Foreign ministers of the two countries have held a formal meeting in New Delhi that brought effusive comments from both parties.The Indian…
Continue readingLeDaro: United States of America: Has it lost its collective brain
There is a story on MSNBC that the US is considering to grab “nukes” from Pakistan because there is a danger they may fall into the wrong hands. I suppose after Osama Bin Laden, US is emboldened. No doubt it was a flawless operation, but to ‘grab…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Afghanistan In Disarray? Blame Iran Even If It’s B.S.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that at the end of a bad month for the client regime in Afghanistan and the NATO colonial project in general, that the US made the discovery that Iran was supporting al Qaeda and needed to announce it. I also believe ot…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Disaster That Is Afghanistan
This week’s slaying of Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a warlord/mobster with extensive power in Southern Afghanistan is a reminder that NATO and the Americans haven’t got the situation in Afghanistan under control. Not …
Continue readingPakistanis really don’t like the U.S. They really don’t
That the United States is unpopular in Pakistan is common knowledge. But just how unpopular is surprising. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 73 per cent of Pakistanis hold an unfavourable opinion of the U.S., 68 per cent have little or no …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Pakistan Said to be Gearing Up for Nuclear War
The people who assess the risks of nuclear war spend a lot of time casting bones and reading entrails. Right now they warn that Pakistan is seen readying to “cross the nuclear threshold.”Pakistan’s test launch last month of a new short-rang…
Continue readingMind of Dan: Osama may be dead, but we still have to stay in Afghanistan
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. -Mark Twain Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed, it appears, by the CIA. The question is what do we do next? Many are saying it is time for us to get out of Afghanistan, but most people saying that were […]
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