World cannot afford American Patriotism
Barack Obama to the Chicago Council on Globl Affairs: Only through this phased redeployment can we send a clear message to the Iraqi factions that the U.S. is not going to hold together this country...
View ArticleHillary is wrong either way
Many (including kos) have commented on Hillary's refusal to "acknowledge she made a mistake" or apologize. Hillary keeps repeating that "if she had known what she knows now" she would have voted...
View ArticleIran coverage by AP
Sorry for the short diary, but: I saw this headline in yahoo.com in the front page: "U.N. says Iran refuses to halt nuke development"The article title, when you click on the link says: "Report on Iran:...
View ArticleA Third World Perspective for Kossacks
Reading about foreign policy diaries in DKos and debating American foreign policy with some AMericans has led me to write this diary - it is obvious your narrative of world history is vastly different...
View ArticleIs Democracy ideal?
One of the premises on which the attack on Iraq was based is that the Iraqi people have no real power - that they are not a democracy. And hence America was justified in "liberating" that country. In...
View ArticleKilling Afghans continues
Here is the latest - 25 civilians killed in NATO airstrikeNow I know that most members in DKos see the Afghan war as justified - although, as aggressive war, it was as illegal; and in terms of war...
View ArticleWould YOU relenquish power if you had it?
Political reconciliation hasn't happened, and violence has leveled off and may be creeping back up," said Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., chairman of the House committee. "So how can we encourage, if not...
View ArticleThe Porn Library Of Chromepet
This is not meant to be an adult post - it simply analyzes a model of working together as a community. Nothing offensive in here. I wrote this post for primarily an Indian audience, in my personal blog...
View ArticleThe selection of America's President
(I wrote this article for an Indian audience here in my blog. I thought it may be of interest to Kossacks as an outsider's perspective.) The presidential elections for the United States are due first...
View ArticleIraq war and the dirty bomb scenario - talking points
There are two talking points that need to be defeated right now for the sake of sanity. Bush in his ABC interview says, "I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess,". Senator Dianne Feinstein...
View ArticleSlumDog and the West
Couple of diaries have been posted on slumdog and how India received it and how the West received it and so on. Coincidentally, for no particular reason, I wrote a post yesterday linking Slumdog, the...
View ArticleThe task of building a better world
I was watching TV today when it struck me that the world order was all wrong. I quickly wrote an elegant proof for it and here it is.The progressive blogosphere in the USA handles debates such as...
View ArticleColonialism and the American blindness
After watching the coverage of the flotilla incident and the Israeli attack, in the blogosphere and on television, I could not understand initially why there seemed to be so much complexity in the...
View ArticleAn Independent Take on the Elections
I am from India, but I follow US politics very closely, I have no stakes in the elections as Americans do, but like many others around the world, what got my attention was the Bush era, and the Iraq...
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