Contact With ET Within 20 Years
by Marcus Chown in New Scientist in 2004: “If intelligent life exists elsewhere in our galaxy, advances in computer processing power and radio telescope technology will ensure we detect their
Americans Are Not As Poor As They Think They Are
by Thomas R. Wells: Americans dominate global (social) media and one result of this is that the rest of the world is overexposed to Americans’ ideas, and also to their
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In a way, Bengal was Britain’s Gaza
Insurgency then and now: British India’s rebels and Israel’s Hamas Arpan Roy writes in Dawn: In the same way that the British cited terrorism as the reason why India was
A 1-Litre Bottle Of Water Contains Some 240,000 Plastic Fragments: Study
Nanoplastics pose a greater threat to human health than microplastics because they’re small enough to penetrate human cells, enter the bloodstream and impact organs. A typical one-liter (33-ounce) bottle of
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Dr. Mubashir Hasan On Kashmir, Bhutto, Etc. (Video)
From DesPardes archive: Kashmir, Bhutto, “If I’m assassinated”, Benazir, PPP: Dr. Mubashir Hasan shared his views with Irshad Salim. Mr. Mubashir Hasan was in Washington/Virginia then -he had telephonic talk
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Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer
Mosab Abu Toha in the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Palestine is a story away.” This is what Refaat Alareer wrote on my copy of the short story anthology he
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Leftists, Progressives Team Up With Islamists to Oust Bhutto. ‘It Was a Foolish Idea’.
Nadeem F Paracha in SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE BANDWAGON LEFT: On October 9, 2009, the day my father passed away, I received a call from an old college friend of his.
The Logic of Austerity
Dillon Wamsley in Phenomenal World: In the aftermath of 2008, the pace at which capitalist states moved from bailouts and stimulus policies to fiscal belt tightening was jarring. No less
Pakistan: Growing Weed Instead of Tree
IRSHAD SALIM: A note from my diary Jhatke Pe Jhatka (Shock & Awe): A free and fair elections was held in 1971. It was free for sure, observers say. However,
Break Every Chain: How Black Plaintiffs in the South Sought Justice
Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: MOST AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white
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TWO Videos on Palestine, Ukraine
IRSHAD SALIM: TWO years ago (in Feb2022) I commented on the Ukraine issue –using a Russian-French commercial video advertisement of a car. It may not have relevance with the situation.
Victims of Our Own Narrative
Markets in Pakistan should be allowed to generate profits, but not at the expense of the customer Zafar Masud writes in Dawn: Shiller, a Yale-based behavioral economist, argues that markets