Dhaka Debacle Part 1 & 2 (Video)
IRSHAD SALIM: As I work on the 3rd of many comments and observations I have on the Dhaka Debacle, I am re-posting below Part 1 & 2 of my views
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 another type that is very common in history: a “coup from above.” That’s more difficult
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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 (Dollar swing & Pak Rupee slide) in Pakistan with many who are on my WhatsApp
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Some Comments on Jim Mattis View on Pak Politics
Jim Mattis, the former US Secretary of Defense with a decade of experience in interacting with Pakistan leadership claims in his book “Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead” that Pakistan’s
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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, Slaughtered without a Knife, at Kitab Ghar Literary Festival on Saturday. “I have written a
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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 War less stable than the previous one, Jo Inge Bekkevold writes. Arsenal of democracy. After
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The Media Very Rarely Lies
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: With a title like that, obviously I will be making a nitpicky technical point. I’ll start by making the point, then explain why I
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 McConnell and much of the Republican elite have been casting around for a way to
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 knew it then, and would know this now –looking at things on hindsight: Still, the
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Why is the West Against Islam?
Shared by Qayyum Ahmed: A brother named Ranjit Lal Madhavan has written a very nice article in Malayalam. After reading and listening to it, I felt the urge to translate
Hyperintelligence: Art, AI, and the Limits of Cognition
by Jochen Szangolies: On May 11, 1997, chess computer Deep Blue dealt then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov a decisive defeat, marking the first time a computer system was able to
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The Puzzle of Working Class Politics Around the World
by Pranab Bardhan: The recent spectacular rise of extreme right-wing parties in Italy and Sweden and the squeaking narrow victory of Lula in Brazil have revived the puzzle that in
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