posted by f.sheikh
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Memorable Speech on House Floor-(Mr. Ted Yoho’s abusive language gives permission to other men to use same language against his daughters-and that is not acceptable).
Reply
Category Archives: Politics
Pakistan’s Assets Aboard-Looted Money
Shared by. Shuja Khan via Viewslink
LET US LODGE CLAIMS ON SAFEHEAVEN COUNTRIES THRU UNOFOR RECOVERY OF OUR MONEY AND ASSETSWITH DUE MARK UPS AND PROFITSHELD BY THESE COUNTRIESILLEGALLY , ILLEGITIMATELY UNETHICALLY.
CORRUPTION IS BEING DONE , A MASSIVE CORRUPTION
BUT
EVERY ONE HAS DONE IT
POLITICIANS , BEAURACRACY , GOVERNMENTS , LEAS , POLICE , JUDICIARY , ARMED FORCES ,BUSINESS COMMUNITY , ULEMAS , NGOS AND EVERY COMMON MAN AND WOMAN
IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER….
SOLUTION IS NOT IN PUNISHING A FEW.
WE SUFFER AS A NATION A MORAL BANKCRUPTCY.
WE NEED TO STUDY , LEARN AND DO WHAT HONEST NATIONS DID TO REACH TO CURRENT LEVELS OF INTEGRITY HUMANITY AND DISCIPLINE .
The Lukewarm War (Pakistan, India,Iran & China re-alignment)
WHEN the Iran-India deal on Chabahar port was announced in 2016, it sent considerable shockwaves through strategic circles in Pakistan, and rightly so. Viewed as part of India’s encirclement strategy, Chabahar was seen not only as a potential rival to Gwadar, but also as an indication of India’s widening regional influence and as a potential outpost for India on Pakistan’s western flank.
Taking a wider-angle look, it also had the potential to cut off Pakistan from Afghan trade as the project, and the accompanying rail link from Chabahar to Zahedan and then on to Zaranj in Afghanistan could eventually have, if not exactly replaced, but at least curtailed Afghan transit trade through Pakistan.
A year later, the capture of India spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who also operated out of Chabahar, added to these anxieties given that it was unlikely at best that his anti-Pakistan activities were not known to, and tolerated by, Iranian authorities. The noose was tightening and strangulation seemed inevitable with an openly hostile India to the east, a nearly equally hostile Afghanistan — considered to be heavily influenced by India — to the west and now Iran seemingly joining in.
But a lot can change in four years, and recently there were reports that Iran had decided to cut India out of the railway project and go it alone. Quoting sources in the Iranian government, media reports claimed that this was due to India’s reluctance to initiate their part of this project in the light of its increasing bonhomie with the US and also the related fear of sanctions, even though Chabahar had been given a special waiver by the United States.
posted by f.sheikh
“THE HARDHAT RIOT” Book review by David Paul Kuhn
(Worth reading historic account of 1970 NYC riots when anti-Vietnam war protesters were beaten up by white blue-collar workers. It was a moment when white blue-collar workers became Republicans. f.sheikh)
Kuhn, who has written before about white working-class Americans, builds his book on long-ago police records and witness statements to recreate in painful detail a May day of rage, menace and blood. Antiwar demonstrators had massed at Federal Hall and other Lower Manhattan locations, only to be set upon brutally, and cravenly, by hundreds of steamfitters, ironworkers, plumbers and other laborers from nearby construction sites like the nascent World Trade Center. Many of those men had served in past wars and viscerally despised the protesters as a bunch of pampered, longhaired, draft-dodging, flag-desecrating snotnoses.
It was a clash of irreconcilable tribes and battle cries: “We don’t want your war” versus “America, love it or leave it.” And it was bewildering to millions of other Americans, including my younger self, newly back home after a two-year Army stretch, most of it in West Germany. My sympathies were with the demonstrators. But I also understood the working stiffs and why they felt held in contempt by the youngsters and popular culture.
New social policies like affirmative action and school busing affected white blue-collar families far more than they did the more privileged classes that spawned many antiwar activists. For Hollywood, the workingman seemed barely a step above a Neanderthal, as in the 1970 movies “Joe,” about a brutish factory worker, and “Five Easy Pieces,” in which a diner waitress is set up to be the target of audience scorn. (Come 1971, we also had “All in the Family” and television’s avatar of working-class bigotry, Archie Bunker.)