Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Colonialism’
Bush’s Envoy to Iraq Calls for Partition of Afghanistan
Politico | By Robert D. Blackwill | 7 July 2010 A de facto partition for Afghanistan “This means accepting a de facto partition, enforced by U.S. and NATO air power and special forces, the Afghan army and international partners. After years of faulty U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, there are no quick, easy and cost-free ways to escape the [...]
Blowing Smoke Rings at the Kabul Charade
Spiegel | By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kabul | 20 July 2010 Setting a Date for the Pullout Kabul Conference to Herald End of NATO Mission Under tight security, the foreign ministers of NATO states are convening Tuesday in Kabul. Despite massive problems and a weak President Hamid Karzai, the military alliance wants [...]
U.S. Imperialism “South of the Border”
Consortium News | By Lisa Pease | 17 July 2010 Oliver Stone Under Assault Again Oliver Stone is under attack again, which isn’t a surprise, given that no other filmmaker has been so willing to challenge the “conventional wisdom” in an effort to uncover the facts about important events. After seeing what the media did to Stone for his [...]
Pakistan Governed by Tax Evaders
New York Times | By Sabrina Tavernise | 18 July 2010 Pakistan’s Elite Pay Few Taxes, Widening Gap ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Much of Pakistan’s capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out to dry. But [...]
Anti-War Conference in Albany, NY (23-25 July 2010)
Times Union | By Dennis Yusko | 18 July 2010 From fighting a war to fighting war Veterans more vocal in anti-war movement "Fear turns into hatred and overcomes everything you are," McCord said from his Wichita home. "You turn into a monster over there. I feel it is my duty to speak out on the wars and what I witnessed." ALBANY -- Ethan [...]
US/NATO Psy-Op/MISO in Afghanistan
The Nation | By I. M. Mohsin | 15 July 2010 Afghanistan: the psywar prongs June ended as the deadliest month for the foreign troops, more so the US. According to ISAF’s assessment, 103 soldiers got killed while many more were badly injured. Lacking missiles and air power, which is the monopoly of the foreign troops, the Taliban have to [...]
The Caliphate of Elizabeth Regina
Afpakwar | By Arshad Zaman | 15 July 2010 A host of clichés on law and governance—religion has no place in politics, church and state must be separate, etc.—adorn the Op-Ed columns of newspapers. They are said to be based on the English example, among others. England is ruled today by “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the [...]
Proceedings of the Balochistan International Conference, Washington, DC, 21 November 2009
The Baluch | 21 November 2009 Baluchistan International Conference, Washington D.C. Organized by American Friends of Balochistan This post reproduces selected remarks, statements, and papers delivered at the Baluchistan International Conference, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2009. By way of background, in a 14 November 2008 [...]
The Baloch Narrative
Blip.tv | Undated The Baluch 'The Baluch' is a 25-minute documentary about the history of Balochistan, once a sovereign nation, now a troubled province of Pakistan. In late 2006, following the assassination of tribal leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, our team traveled to Balochistan where for 5 days we visited the towns of Quetta, Kalat and [...]
Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”
In a brilliant reflection on Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, Nosheen Ali exposes how the book constructs a patronising and misleading narrative of terror in which the realities of Northern Pakistan and Muslim life-worlds are distorted through simplistic tropes of ignorance, backwardness and extremism, while histories of US geopolitics and [...]
