As Gore Vidal said once, “we are the United States of Amnesia.” We are. We don’t read. We don’t know other languages. We don’t study our own history. Our history is the history of an idea – an imperfect idea. Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines hosted a fantastic debate of various experts discussing the Bush legacy [...]
Read more →I saw this movie today and have to recommend it to anyone who wants to see the consequences of torture. Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film [...]
Read more →A few weeks ago, when the South Asian Tribune ran a story that the United States was planning a coup to remove General Musharraf from power, I honestly didn’t put alot of thought into it. There is always a coup of some kind in process in Pakistan, whether it comes from the religio-fascists that don’t [...]
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