Stephen E. Arnold: Pakistan Takes on #GoogleGestapo Social Media — Can A Country Be a Country in Bill Gates’s Technopia?

Social Media Versus a Nation State: Pakistan Versus the Facebook and Friends The government of Pakistan’s social media position is reflected in this passage from the article: The new set of regulations makes it compulsory for social media companies to open offices in Islamabad, build data servers to store information and take down content upon …

Pepe Escobar: China-India-Iran-Pakistan-Russia Triumph

The West Can’t Smell What Eurasia is Cooking A tectonic geopolitical shift happened in Astana, Kazakhstan, only a few days ago, and yet barely a ripple registered in Atlanticist circles. At the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), founded in 2001, both India and Pakistan were admitted as full members, alongside Russia, China and four Central Asian …

Owl: US PizzaGate, UK Rotherham, Pedophiles, Pakistanis, and When the Alt-Right Breaks the Story Mainstream Media Refuses to Cover…

This is extremely interesting – shows parallels between Pizzagate and Rotherham sex scandal, given the news sources in latter instance: “The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal first “broke” in the far-right blogosphere. The accusation they made was that these gangs were being allowed to operate undisturbed because everyone was too afraid of “appearing racist” to …

Berto Jongman: Pakistan’s Hand in the Rise of International Jihad

Pakistan’s Hand in the Rise of International Jihad TUNIS — PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan and the Taliban produce results in the next few months, his country may not survive 2016. Afghanistan is barely standing, he says, after the Taliban onslaught last year, …

Nafeez Ahmed: USG Culpability in Pakistani School Massacre + Criminal Foreign Policy & Revolution USA RECAP

Who is responsible for the Pakistan school massacre? EXTRACT In 2009, I obtained a confidential report commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which provided a shocking explanation for this seemingly contradictory policy. The report, authored by respected defence consultant Prof Ola Tunander, who had previously contributed to a high-level Danish government inquiry into …

Stephen E. Arnold: Does Amazon Lack Integrity? Where is Due Diligence on Authorship (Including Kindle Spam Fraud Books from Pakistan and India)?

Amazon: Not Right for Some Authors I wanted to call this write up Godforsaken ID. But you might plug in the letter “C” or you might not. I suggest you track down a dead tree edition of the still dog paddling New York Times. Check out the business section and look for the Google pleasing …