10 Ways the U.S. Military Has Shoved Christianity Down Muslims’ Throats It’s not just private religious organizations that act like Christian crusaders. September 23, 2009  |       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqIPjj3ciU&feature=player_embedded    The Military Religious Freedom Foundation was founded in 2005 by Mikey Weinstein, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Reagan administration White House counsel, after the harassment his own sons faced as Jewish cadets at the academy led him to discover that the fundamentalist Christian takeover of the Air Force Academy was far from an isolated problem. It was a militarywide issue that needed to be confronted head on. But it quickly … Continue reading Crusader U.S. Military and the attack on Muslims!

7 Habits of Highly Frugal People The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. Not surprisingly, this directly … Continue reading 7 Habits of Highly Frugal People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgkvYmelMFQ The Other Side: Shooting drones By Rafay Mahmood   Young film-maker Muhammad Danish Qasim talks about his short film The Other Side which has won the NFFTY award. GRAPHIC: SAMRA AAMIR   KARACHI:  While seasoned film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made us proud with an Oscar award this year, it seems young film-makers are not far behind as they are working on interesting and unique projects that are garnering attention and recognition for Pakistan. One of these talented minds is Iqra University’s Media Science student Muhammad Danish Qasim whose short film The Other Side has created a buzz in Pakistan as well as at international festivals. Plot … Continue reading The Other Side: Shooting drones

Emotion and logic Gilani has said that in the future the government will not make decisions which are “emotional”. Now that the six-month standoff with the US over Nato supply routes finally seems to be over, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that in the future the government will not make decisions which are “emotional”. This was a tacit admission that Pakistan may indeed have taken steps that could be justified only as a matter of honour and not as policy decisions. By some estimates, Pakistan will earn up to one million dollars a day from the 600 or so … Continue reading Pakistan – Emotion and logic!

Iran, Pakistan, Israel most negatively rated countries: BBC poll By Ferya Ilyas   Pakistan is the only country which rated its own influence as negative, stated poll results. SOURCE: BBC POLL Pakistan was ranked second in the list of most negatively rated countries in the world by a global poll for BBC World Service, which surveyed 24,090 people around the world.  Citizens of 22 countries were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone between December 6, 2011 and February 17, 2012. Polling was conducted by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country, together with the Program on International Policy … Continue reading Pakistan Mullahs help the country win,’The most negative Poll!’

  SPEAKING FREELYUS punishes Iran for Palestinian resistanceBy Ardeshir Ommani  Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing.  On a Sunday morning in Beirut, October 23, 1983, a yellow Mercedes Benz truck loaded with 12,000 pounds (5,443 kilograms) of dynamite slammed against the four-story building that housed the US Battalion Landing Team Marine Headquarters. The explosion, which was heard throughout Beirut, killed 241 American servicemen. Minutes later a second truck, full of explosives, slammed against the barracks of French paratroopers nearby; the blast killed 58 … Continue reading US punishing Iran for Palestinian resistance?

India dumps Iran, squeezes ObamaBy M K Bhadrakumar  The cloud cover of sophistry that has been characteristic of India’s Iran policy in recent years lifted on Tuesday when the government admitted in parliament that it had taken a policy decision to reduce oil imports from Iran.  The frank admission came on a day when an emissary from Washington, Carlos Pascual, special envoy on energy matters in the United States State Department, arrived with the proclaimed intention of weaning New Delhi away from Tehran’s fuel.  The Barack Obama administration will be delighted that the sustained diplomatic and political pressure on India … Continue reading India dumps Iran to get pimped by the US?

Terrorists blur into freedom fightersBy Brian M Downing  Tensions between Iran on the one hand and the United States and Israel have eased substantially since war loomed just a few weeks ago.  Israeli politicians, generals and security experts have openly expressed opposition to attacking Iran. More recently, the hawkish coalition in power has brought in the Kadima party, a large moderate bloc whose leaders also oppose such a strike. The P5+1 talks – which include Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US plus Germany – on Iran’s nuclear program are scheduled to begin in Baghdad next week in this calmer … Continue reading Terrorists or freedom fighters? Depends on the US Congress!

TAPI price deal closeBy Robert M Cutler  MONTREAL – Great anticipation surrounds next week’s meeting on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline project, as press reports from all sides suggest the possibility of a final agreement on transit fees.  The 1,735 kilometer pipeline would run from southeastern Turkmenistan into Afghanistan, then parallel to the highway from Herat to Kandahar and finally via Quetta and Multan in Pakistan to the town of Fazilka in India. Pakistan and India would receive 13-14 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y) of gas while Afghanistan’s take would be 5 bcm/y.  The deal would have a … Continue reading Price deal?: Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline

Who’s who at NATO’s banquet By M K Bhadrakumar  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still printing the invitation cards to its Chicago summit on Sunday. A card was printed for Pakistan President Asif Zardari on Wednesday. Pakistan became “eligible” following indications it will get down from the high horse and reopen the transit routes for military convoys into Afghanistan – despite the stubborn refusal by Washington to either apologize for the massacre of Pakistani soldiers last November in an air strike or terminate the deadly drone strikes on Pakistani villages.  Pakistan will receive US$1 million per day from the … Continue reading NATO’s sexiest banquet!