[caption id="attachment_4205" align="aligncenter" width="606"] Left, U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman. Right, the spot in Afghanistan where he’s believed to have been shot and killed.[/caption] Just a few short miles from the Pakistani border, on a plateau above the Afghan village of Lawara, sits a small U.S. fire base named after army ranger Pat Tillman. Now, the United States is shutting down the base, accord ...

 By Peter A. Kirby Are miniaturized versions of the world’s largest ionospheric heater (HAARP) all around us modifying the weather? Have electromagnetic frequency generators been installed over major fault lines waiting to trigger massive earthquakes? Has our military developed a super weapon that can vaporize entire cities with lightning from the ionosphere? There is evidence that technology exists and is ...

Copyright © 2012 by Robert D. Kaplan Maps copyright © 2012 by David Lindroth, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. The preface contains material from four earlier titles by Robert D. Kaplan: Soldiers of God ...

[caption id="attachment_4182" align="alignright" width="385"] Lana Del Rey performs in France in July. Her album, Born To Die, came out in January, to mixed reviews.[/caption] It's beginning to look a lot like craziness — end-of-the-year craziness, to be precise. Now that Gray Thursday has officially reduced Thanksgiving to carbo-loading for the holiday shopping marathon, many people's winter holidays have ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Coming into the Mumbai Test, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was sitting in his hotel room and thinking: What did he want from the authorities to win the Test?   The answer he came up with was simple: A turning pitch, batsmen who know the conditions, three spinners and as an afterthought, he wanted to win the toss too. In the minds of many, it was a fail-safe approach. And he g ...

 Posted By Zaheerul Hassan November 26, 2012 "Jerusalem Post" - November 22, 2012  - -Hamas leader says he'll move to a peaceful path contingent on the "end of the occupation" and Palestinian statehood. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared a position on Palestinian statehood that is nearly identical to that of his Fatah rival, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in an interview with CNN aired Wed ...

Posted by Zaheerul Hassan Ialamabad:  Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on Senior journalist Hamid Mir and warned of more attacks on anyone pursuing the secular agenda.Yesterday a bag of explosive has been found pasted in Hamid Mir Car. Govt offered full security to the journalist. Pakistan massed have demanded that govt should take serious ...

bY Rasul Bakhsh Rais There are many ways leaders of a nation can isolate themselves from the rest of the world. It is not mere geography, terrain or lack of communication facility but a mindset. Afghanistan has been historically isolated for some of the above reasons, but today, doing so voluntarily or under foreign coercion would work against self-interest. No rational, practical leaders in the contemporar ...