David Yeagley: Bad Eagle or Plain Loon? Posted on 15 June 2010 by Garibaldi at Loonwatch.com “Bad Eagle” or just “Plain Loon”? What happens when you cross a white supremacist with someone who claims to be half-white and half-Native American? Answer: David Yeagley (hat tip: Mallorcaman). Yeagley is a rare and strange specimen, self-described as the “lone Conservative Indian voice,” he rails against Native Americans and anyone who he considers to be liberals. He is known amongst Native Americans, for reasons we will come to shortly as the Indian apple, apple n. An Indian who is red on the outside, … Continue reading David Yeagley – ”Hitler was right?’

By Mahir Ali dawn.com “The last person the Taliban would want to see is Asif Zardari,” wrote Ahmed Rashid. –File Photo The vehement denials that have lately been pouring out of Islamabad with reference to Matt Waldman’s controversial discussion paper on the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate’s embroilment with the Afghan Taliban offer little cause for surprise. Even a relatively milder indictment of the ISI’s role in Afghanistan would have been greeted with a dismissive counter-offensive. At the same time, however, even a cursory perusal of the report demonstrates that what’s disconcerting about it goes well beyond the striking allegation that … Continue reading What’s wrong with this picture?

WikiLeak Case Echoes Pentagon Papers Coleen Rowley Former FBI Special Agent Co-authored by Robert Parry Almost four decades after Defense Department insider Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers — thus exposing the lies that led the United States into the Vietnam War — another courageous “national security leaker” has stepped forward and now is facing retaliation similar to what the U.S. government tried to inflict on Ellsberg. Army Intelligence Specialist Bradley Manning is alleged to have turned over a large volume of classified material about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to Wikileaks.org, including the recently posted U.S. military video showing … Continue reading WikiLeaks founder under threat?

(The dynamics of …) Sergey Gavrilets*,†,‡ and Aaron Vose§ + Author Affiliations Departments of *Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, †Mathematics, and §Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 Edited by Tomoko Ohta, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan, and approved September 21, 2006 (received for review February 20, 2006)   Next Section Abstract The “Machiavellian intelligence” hypothesis (or the “social brain” hypothesis) posits that large brains and distinctive cognitive abilities of humans have evolved via intense social competition in which social competitors developed increasingly sophisticated “Machiavellian” strategies as a means to achieve higher social and reproductive success. Here we build … Continue reading Machiavellian intelligence

MPs’ expenses: MPs complain of being ‘thrown to the dogs’ MPs have complained that they are being ‘thrown to the dogs’ after being forced to abide by a strict new expenses regime. telegraph.co.uk MPs are unhappy about changes to the expenses system Photo: PA One veteran Labour backbencher, Ann Clwyd, said she would not have sought re-election to Parliament had she known the “hassle” she would be forced to undergo to claim allowances under the system introduced last month. Other MPs branded the regime a “nightmare” and “indefensible,” and some demanded that they be given a credit card rather than … Continue reading MPs’ Expenses – Time to stop the lynching of MPs’?

By Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD – After the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States , Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and its industrial and financial backbone, became a main transit route for al-Qaeda – illustrated in gruesome fashion by the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in May 2002; he was on al-Qaeda’s trail. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, in collaboration with United States intelligence, tackled the problem head-on and by 2007 dozens of al-Qaeda cells had been broken up, all but cleaning the southern port city of al-Qaeda’s influence. The Taliban’s resurgence in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan in … Continue reading Bloody fight over Taliban lifelines

By Abubakar Siddique Think of Pakistan and Afghanistan as a giant chessboard. General Stanley McChrystal, commander of United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Afghanistan, and General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani, head of the Pakistani army, sit on its opposing ends. And both men are waiting for each other to make the next move. The two allies await each other’s promised offensive against Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Washington has encouraged Pakistan to move its forces into North Waziristan, where powerful Afghan Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and an assortment of Pakistani, Arab and Central Asian militants wield … Continue reading Pakistan, US play waiting game

By Stephen Blank China announced in late April the sale of two nuclear reactors to Pakistan. This deal is clearly against the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and the spirit if not the letter of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) [1]. Nevertheless, the United States has not and may not even register a protest to this sale in spite of its implications for regional stability. Washington’s desire for Beijing’s support for effective sanctions on Iran dampens the political will to take Beijing to task on other international issues [2]. Although the announcement of this deal does not come … Continue reading China puts down marker in nuclear power race

By Asutosha Acharya Amid media reports indicating that Tamil organizations made up of diaspora in different countries are still making desperate attempts to keep alive the concept of “Tamil Eelam”, suspected pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) elements, for the first time since the military defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka in May 2009, allegedly executed a terrorist attack in neighboring India. On the morning of June 12, suspected LTTE cadres blasted railway tracks at the Perani railway station in Villupuram district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Passengers of the approaching Tiruchirapalli-Chennai Rockfort express escaped unhurt … Continue reading Tamil diaspora keeps ‘Eelam’ dreams alive

By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON – The timing of the publication of a major New York Times story on the vast untapped mineral wealth that lies beneath Afghanistan’s soil is raising major questions about the intent of the Pentagon, which released the information. Given the increasingly negative news that has come out of Afghanistan – and of United States strategy there – some analysts believe the front-page article is designed to reverse growing public sentiment that the war is not worth the cost. “What better way to remind people about the country’s potential bright future – and by people I mean … Continue reading Pentagon strikes it rich