Every one with a TV set has seen the horrific floods that swept Pakistan. Huge areas have been flooded, towns have been submerged and people have been rendered homeless. It is utterly tragic to behold. No one can predict what the consequences of this disaster will be in the months to come. But if you…
By now, it is clear that the problems facing America’s economy and recovery are structural. This week, Tom Friedman of the New York Times came out with an opinion about the structural problems facing America. Friedman discusses three structural problems in his article. First he points out the enormous debt America has piled on to…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Editor’s Note: August 15 is India’s Independence Day. This is a day when Pseudo-European Indians love to talk down their country, its progress and its people. We are great fans of Core India and Indians who reflect the core. When you visit Mumbai, you will be struck by the eternal optimism of core Indians. They…
It was not long ago when a regime created a concept that one religion and one ethnic group were the root cause of all trouble in their land. The regime was Nazi Germany and the ethnic group were Jews. The propaganda of the regime was persistent, pernicious and soon it infected the entire German society. …
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
A young man was asked his name in a Louis L’Amour book. He said “they call me Handy”. When asked why, he drawled, “I was handy in a gunfight and so folks began calling me Handy”. In the Wild West, names did not matter much. Where you came from mattered even less. What mattered is what you…
Last Sunday, Sixty Minutes aired their clip of the 2001 defeat of the Taleban Government in Afghanistan. It was a good, positive clip that put to rest the false terminology about the US invading Afghanistan. This clip titled Ex-CIA Operative Comes Out of the Shadows featured CIA Henry “Hank” Crumpton who went to Afghanistan with a…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Editor’s Note: We tried to reach out to the editors and writers of the WSJ India Edition. Our hope was to engage in a dialogue and seek answers to basic questions we have. Unfortunately, the people at WSJ-Delhi responded with what we perceived as arrogant indifference. Below we lay out our questions and views. WSJ…