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Jim Sleeper in Washington Monthly: Berkowitz’s must-read essay argues that the nature of war itself has changed enough that massive militaries are useless and that war itself is unwinnable by any “side.”
Continue readingWhen War Loses Its Power, ‘We Must Have a New Concept of the State’
Jan 4th 2024 in “The Economist”: His party is being unfairly muzzled, the former prime minister writes from prison. Today Pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal
Continue readingImran Khan Warns That Pakistan’s Election Could Be a Farce
As Houthis target commercial shipping relentlessly, the message to the US and Israel is clear By Zeeshan Ahmad in The Express Tribune: “Can’t say I didn’t warn you.” It’s a
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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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
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
Continue readingDr. Mubashir Hasan On Kashmir, Bhutto, Etc. (Video)
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.
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
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,
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.
Caviar, counterculture, and the cult of Stalin reborn Marzio G. Mian at Harper’s Magazine: Russia has become, to observers in the West, a distant, mysterious, and hostile land once again.
Adam Tooze writes in Chartbook: In 2023 the escalation of violence around the world was horrifying. As the FT remarked: “The anecdotal evidence that war is surging round the world
Continue readingWar, Peace And The Return Of History In 2023