INTERNATIONAL

"In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history." This sentiment, introducing the essay that made Francis Fukuyama a household name, commands renewed attention today, albeit from a different perspective. Developments during the 1980s, above all the winding down of the …

  Americans know that something fundamental is amiss. They sense—rightly—that they are being misled no matter which political party does the leading.   A long misinformed public lacks the tools to grasp how they are being deceived. Without those tools, Americans will continue to be frustrated at being played for the fool.   When the “con” is clearly seen, “the mark” (that’s …

The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual …

ALL IN THE NAME OF PRINCE OF PEACE. The military is denying it allows its soldiers to proselytize to Afghans, following the release of footage showing US soldiers in Afghanistan discussing how to distribute Bibles translated into Pashto and Dari. We speak to Air Force veteran and former Reagan administration counsel Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, …

  It is time that our big brother India practises towards its own minority of around 150 million Muslims throughout the country in general and Kashmir in particular what it preaches to Sri Lanka on   minority rights.   Time and again Indian government officials from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to other top officials insist Sri Lankan government of the need …

  The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and costly to the country’s image. But one more blunt truth must be acknowledged: the occupation is morally repugnant. On one side of a barbed-wire fence here in the southern Hebron hills is the Bedouin village of Umm al-Kheir, where Palestinians live in ramshackle tents and …