By YOUSEF DRUMMOND ALL American presidents endure crushing responsibilities; the most important among them is what foreign policy direction or “world-view” she or he intends to carry out and how to implement it “concretely” on the ground to achieve particular results that will hopefully improve theirs’ and other nation’s national security. Contrary to popular belief [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY WHEN the HG Wells classic War of the Worlds was turned into a movie for the silver screen in 1953 the West was in the grip of the Cold War. The film adaptation of the alien invasion was designed to send out a subliminal warning message to those who viewed communism as something [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND THE morning after Barack Obama’s dramatic transformation from United States Senator from Illinois to the 44th President of the United State, I drove a short distance to a neighborhood cards-and-gifts store to buy a copy of the New York Times at around 9 a.m. All copies were sold out. The next [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY THE day after US war planes bombed an Afghan wedding party killing more than 30 women and children, I drove from Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas to the border crossing. Feeling rather sensitive towards my own security as a white westerner, I decided to throw on an all-enveloping burka and make my way across [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND BY the time each of us reads this article we will have known whether John Sidney McCain or Barack Hussein Obama will be inaugurated on January 20th, 2009 as the 44th president of the United States of America. Given the dizzying pace of political talking-heads and the array of presidential political statistics [...]
