Category: Opinion

Selling Citizenship

Marco D’Eramo in Sidecar: Aux armes, citoyens! So begins the refrain of ‘La Marseillaise’, adopted as…

Dhaka Debacle Part 1 & 2 (Video)

IRSHAD SALIM: As I work on the 3rd of many comments and observations I have…

OPINION: Israel Is On Its Way To Becoming a Dictatorship

Usually when we think of a coup, we think of that kind. But there is…

Sattar Baksh NOT Starbucks and TWO Comments on Pak Economy WhatsApp Shared

IRSHAD SALIM – Early this week I shared my comment on the state of affairs…

Some Comments on Jim Mattis View on Pak Politics

Jim Mattis, the former US Secretary of Defense with a decade of experience in interacting…

Talking Points: “A Judge Has to Buck the Trend”. More…

Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Jawwad S Khawaja at the launch of his book,…

Five ways the next Cold War will be different

New world order. The structure of the U.S.-China bipolar rivalry will make the next Cold…

The Media Very Rarely Lies

Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: With a title like that, obviously I will be…

The GOP Elite Wants to Brand Trump a Loser

Amanda Marcotte in Salon: It’s no secret, among political junkies anyway, that Senate Minority Leader Mitch…

Dhaka Debacle: ‘War is Too Serious a Business to Be Left to the Generals’

IRSHAD SALIM: A clear and imminent military defeat was inevitable and unavoidable; any military mind…

Why is the West Against Islam?

Shared by Qayyum Ahmed: A brother named Ranjit Lal Madhavan has written a very nice…

Hyperintelligence: Art, AI, and the Limits of Cognition

by Jochen Szangolies: On May 11, 1997, chess computer Deep Blue dealt then-world chess champion…