Delegates’ humiliation Dawn Editorial An explanation is all the more needed given the growing concerns across the world of racial profiling at US airports. While this case is particularly high-profile, there have been many similar incidents in the past where passengers have been offloaded, detained, even arrested, apparently because of their race or nationality. – Photo by Reuters. The treatment meted out to a Pakistani military delegation on Monday at the US Dulles Airport is nothing short of insulting. The eight-member delegation, led by a two-star naval officer and comprising senior military officials, was headed to Florida to attend a … Continue reading Pakistanis Insulted – Is This The Way To Treat Friends?

Anti-Islam hysteria By Pankaj Mishra Populist sentiment, which Democrats as well as Republicans clamour to represent, fully endorses the scapegoating of a religious minority for America’s recent military and economic failures. – AFP (File Photo) In the New York Times last week, writing about the eruption of hatred for Muslims in the US, Frank Rich asked what seems an increasingly pertinent question: “How do you win Muslim hearts and minds in Kandahar when you are calling Muslims every filthy name in the book in New York?” Americans who are shocked by what the columnist Maureen Dowd calls a “weird mass … Continue reading Anti-Islam hysteria by American Republicans Party

Militants kill female teacher in Bajaur Bajaur was once a stronghold of Taliban militants who are opposed to the education of girls and have destroyed hundreds of schools in northwest Pakistan in recent years. — Photo by AFP KHAR: A female teacher was killed and two of her colleagues wounded when masked militants shot them in an ambush in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt on Thursday, officials said. The victims — all women — were targeted as they returned home on foot from their school in Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district, officials said. “Five to six militants who were hiding … Continue reading Mullahs kill female teacher in Bajaur

Lahore mourns triple bombing as death toll rises A man reacts over explosions as protesters burn vehicles in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. – AP LAHORE: The death toll from suicide attacks that targeted a busy procession in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore rose to 31 on Thursday as six people succumbed to their injuries, officials said. Three suicide bombers targeted a Shia mourning procession made up of thousands of people on Wednesday at the moment of the breaking of the fast in the holy month of Ramazan, wounding hundreds. It was the first major attack in Pakistan … Continue reading Anger Grows in Lahore as Mullahs Attack!

Tuesday 31 August 2010 by: Michael Corcoran, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Photo: Staff Sgt. Samuel Bendet / U.S. Army) Just as the media lied to help us get into a war, they are now lying us out of one. In the introduction to season five of HBO’s critically acclaimed series, “The Wire,” Det. Bunk Moreland and fellow murder investigators laughed as they duped a hapless, young street gangster into confessing to a murder by pretending a copy machine was a polygraph test. “The bigger the lie, the more they believe,” he said. The statement … Continue reading Media Manipulates the “End” of the War in Iraq

Entire US-Mexico Border to Be Guarded by Predator Drones Tuesday 31 August 2010 by: Taylor Barnes  |  The Christian Science Monitor | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: waynewhuang, dmolsen) The entire 2,000-mile US-Mexico border will be monitored by drones starting Wednesday when a new Predator drone begins flying from Corpus Christi, Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. There are already three drones operating along portions of the border. Aside from the new drone launched today, money for two more was included in $600 million legislation President Barack Obama signed earlier this month, … Continue reading Predator Drones on US-Mexico Border

Tuesday 31 August 2010 by: Cynthia Benjamin  |  Women’s Media Center | Op-Ed (Photo: The National Guard; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t) Today is the deadline promised by Barack Obama for the complete withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. After more than seven years of war for a cause most Americans couldn’t believe in, I should feel relief, even elation, as the date approaches. Reassurance, however, has been elusive to me. I am the mother of a soldier, and I’ve come to question my government’s pronouncements. My son is Cpt. Jess Greaves, U.S. Army. Jess … Continue reading Military Moms Still Fighting for Complete Withdrawal

After Saddam, America’s Next Fake Enemy: Deficits Tuesday 31 August 2010 by: Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co. (Photo: The New York Times) Were Americans misled into the Iraq war? Yes. But Karl Rove, who served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, argued in the Wall Street Journal in July that his “biggest mistake” was not fighting back in 2004 when the story began to spread that the Bush administration had lied to Americans during the run-up to the Iraq war. “That was wrong and my mistake: I should have insisted to the president … Continue reading America’s Next Fake Enemy: Deficits

By Olivia Chung HONG KONG – Chinese entrepreneur Song Youzhou reckons he has found a way for commuters to leapfrog the horrendous traffic jams that increasingly bring his country’s cities to a grinding halt. Song’s solution is a 43-meter long “straddling bus” that runs astride the road on tracks, allowing it pass over vehicles underneath while an upper level carries as many as 1,200 passengers. A test-run of his futuristic vehicle – dubbed the “3D Fast Bus” – is planned for early next year on a track to be built in Beijing’s Mentougou district. China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock … Continue reading Bus on stilts to beat Beijing gridlock