Category Archives: International Affairs

“New Caliphate” Nonsense

By Ziryab | Published: August 26, 2010
This is cross-post by M.J Akbar New Delhi, India – “Muslims want to revive the Caliphate,” I hear pundits say. The idea is just preposterous. The Caliphate is a pre-nation state concept, relevant only to the Age of Empire. The Caliphate was defeated by the British in 1918. It was buried by the Turks in 1924. Upon [...]
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Goodbye Pakistan?

By Guest | Published: August 17, 2010
This is a cross-post by Terry Glavin The Sound of Pennies Dropping: 1. Pakistan’s main spy agency says homegrown Islamist militants have overtaken the Indian army as the greatest threat to national security, a finding with potential ramifications for relations between the two rival South Asian nations and for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. A recent internal [...]
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is digging mass graves for American soldiers in preparation for a war over its nuclear programme, according to a former senior commander.

By Ziryab | Published: August 15, 2010
This is a cross-post by Richard Spencer. The scene in the south of Iran where hundreds of mass graves have been dug General Hossein Moghadam, the Guard’s former deputy chief, was speaking after film footage showed strings of freshly dug graves in the south of the country. They were close to the site of war graves for the [...]
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Pakistan leads the War on WikiLeaks

By Effendi | Published: July 27, 2010
The Pakistan government has gone into damage control mode after the evidence of the ISI’s involvement in Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan was exposed and confirmed on WikiLeaks. The Pakistan ambassador to USA, Husain Haqqani has penned an article in the WSJ, to undermine the veracity of the reports. The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not even [...]
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Is Gaza Starving?

By Effendi | Published: June 13, 2010
The UNDP has published its yearly Human Development Report (HDR) and the results are surprising to say the least. It will put paid to a few received notions held dearly by the moralists of the Left, the Islamists of the religious right and pretty much everything else in between. I say that with irony at [...]
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The Taliban and its Pakistan puppet masters

By Faisal | Published: June 13, 2010
The Times has published an article on a new study published by the LSE which uncovers support by the Pakistani government and by Pakistan’s intelligence servcice, the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), for the Taliban. The ISI in particular is said to be represented on the Taliban’s war council, the Quetta shura. And up to seven of [...]
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Turkish Deceit

By Faisal | Published: June 6, 2010
Last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gave the USA a stern lecture on its role in the Flotilla incident, and revelled in his own “with us or without us” moment: “Psychologically, this attack is like 9/11 for Turkey. We expect full solidarity with us. It should not seem like a choice between Turkey and Israel. [...]
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meanwhile, in israel…

By bananabrain | Published: June 4, 2010
with the flotilla imbroglio (or fiasco, if you prefer) in full swing, yours truly has just arrived back from the zionist entity, where numerous representatives of clan bananabrain continue to live as normal a life as one might expect in what hussein shobokshi of asharq al-awsat describes as “a state established on a lie based [...]
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religious idiots round up: vengeful volcanoes

By bananabrain | Published: May 12, 2010
of course, nobody should be surprised that when a natural disaster occurs, the usual suspects jump on the bandwagon to explain why it proves their wacky theologies and that G!D Is Having a good old Smite at people of whom they disapprove or, alternatively, that it’s all part of the dastardly plans of the illuminati [...]
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Bangladesh’s Quest for Justice

By Guest | Published: April 1, 2010
This is a cross-post of an article by Salil Tripathi for the Caravan Magazine of India. It is long (7000 words) but it is balanced, moving and well worth reading. **** A QUARTER CENTURY AGO I met a man who calmly told me how he had organised the massacre of a family. He wasn’t confessing out of [...]
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