Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale; It makes no difference who Americans vote for- the two parties (property parties) are really one party representing four percent of the people – quotes from (late) Gore Vidal. The planning for conquest of the Middle East started with the […]
Author: Gulam ASGAR MITHA
The Petrocurrency War
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2007 had supposedly asked ex-Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd “how do you get tough on your banker?” This was over concerns about China’s growing power and hold on US finances and according to Wikileaks Rudd told Clinton to keep force as a last […]
China and Its Economic and Geopolitical Eurasian Strategy
“….in the meantime it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the US) emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, April 1997 For several decades and centuries, the European and Asian colonial powers fought among themselves for control of foreign lands, […]
Towards a “Newer” World Order?
When the white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “close your eyes and let us pray”. We did and when we opened our eyes we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu Archbishop Tutu was one of those […]
The New Global Economy: rise of China and decline of USA
There is a limit to economic manipulations by empires. All empires have perished due to economic hardships. The Ottoman, Soviet and the British empires were no exception in the past century. Waste was the key product of these empires. Whether the only empire – the US – understands it or […]
The demonization of Islam
Much is being written regarding the Charlie Hebdo issue in Paris, France. I do not condone any killing but at the same time I do not support issues that violate human rights, religious freedom or freedom of speech and thoughts. Using cartoons to condemn Divine thoughts and beliefs is utterly […]
Lessons from Vietnam and Afghan Wars and Terrorism
The past histories of mighty empires, emperors and kings are in the pages of history books for present empires, emperors and kings as well as for those that would follow in the future. Gulam Asgar Mitha I’d returned to Pakistan from the US in April 1976 after completing my post-secondary […]
Raping the Middle East Religions and Cultures
In reference to the Israelis, the late Edward Said had written “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”. Edward W Said was a Palestinian American literary theorist and public intellectual who helped found the critical-theory field of […]
Modern and Ancient Parallels of Arabian Aristocracy
“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.” William James Durant (a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published […]
Middle East: The Regional Chessboard
PRELUDE ‘When the rich get richer they get more powerful and that puts them in the position to lobby for policies that make them richer still’ – former Clinton advisor Larry Summers. It is not the intent here to get into specific details about the Middle East which is of […]
Capitalism and its Contribution to Wealth Inequality
‘When the rich get richer they get more powerful and that puts them in the position to lobby for policies that make them richer still’– former Clinton advisor Larry Summers. I briefly read the French economist Thomas Piketty’s best seller CAPITALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY. The theme of Picketty’s work […]
Fascists and the Retrograde Oligarchy
By Gulam Mitha (Canada) Competition is a sin therefore it must be destroyed. The only question about wealth is what do you do with it? The above are the quotes of the first billionaire in human history, John D. Rockefeller who died in 1937. In today’s dollars, he would have […]
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