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Ali: Britain faces the wind of change
Znet Article, May, 03 2010
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
“THE wind of change,” British prime minister Harold Macmillan informed the South African parliament in 1960, “is blowing through this continent.” The all-white legislature in the land of apartheid gave him the silent treatment. Fifty years later, ...
Ali: Year one: damned if he doesn’t...
Znet Article, January, 18 2010
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
In a speech on the eve of Martin Luther King Day this week, Barack Obama invoked the memory of the great civil rights leader (and fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner) in advising his critics to put things in perspective and show a little more patience.
Ali: 'A choice between right and wrong'
Znet Article, October, 06 2009
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
Monday's edition of the British newspaper The Guardian contained an obituary for Marek Edelman, whose claim to fame was his leading role in the famous Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, when Jews trapped in a part of the occupied Polish capital surp...
Ali: The march of the skeletons
Znet Article, September, 14 2009
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
Going by the rate at which former operatives from a plethora of military and other agencies have been emerging from the woodwork and spilling the beans in Pakistan, it almost seems as if someone went around spiking their preferred beverages with t...
Ali: The Reluctant Adversary
Znet Article, September, 01 2009
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
“THE objectives favored by liberals have their merits,†Barack Obama notes in The Audacity of Hope. “But they hardly constitute a national security policy. It’s useful to remind ourselves, then, that Osama bin Laden is not Ho Chi Minh, and...
Ali: Central American blast from the past
Znet Article, June, 30 2009
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
On the face of it, last weekend’s dramatic events in Honduras are a throwback to the past, when the armed forces in any number of Latin American countries routinely ousted civilian governments. It’s inaccurate, however, to portray the unwarran...
Ali: Same Border, Different Foe
Znet Article, September, 17 2008
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
It is unlikely the Russians ever had any intention of rolling across the Durand Line. However, more than a quarter century hence, the Americans have indicated that it is they who may well be coming. The New York Times reported last week - on Septe...
Ali: American Dream or Nightmare?
Znet Article, September, 09 2008
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
The presidential race in the United States kicked off such a long time ago that for months on end it seemed interminable. Now, at long last, the Hollywoodized spectacle of the party conventions is over. There are still eight weeks or so to go befo...
Ali: The Re-Liberation of Zimbabwe
Znet Article, June, 30 2008
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
To his brothers-in-arms, he was simply Comrade Bob. Lord Soames, who presided over the change as London’s representative, called him a “splendid chap”. Smith, who had kept Mugabe in prison for 10 years, abhorred the idea of majority rule but recog...
Ali: The Spirit of ‘68
Znet Article, May, 26 2008
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
ON his road to Palais de l’Élysée, Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed, among other things, that he was out to obliterate the legacy of 1968. “The heirs of May ‘68,” he said, “imposed the idea that there was no longer any difference between good and evil, ...
Ali: Regime change in Mogadishu
Znet Article, June, 27 2006
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
APOLOGISTS for the pre-eminent global superpower frequently complain that the object of their allegiance all too often attracts unfavourable publicity even when it does a good deed. Ask them for an example and they'll invariably conjure up images ...
Ali: Fight them on the beaches?
Znet Article, December, 20 2005
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
LAST week, the day after Sydney witnessed some of its worst racial violence in living memory, a woman in the affected suburb answered her doorbell only to find a pair of men, of “Middle Eastern appearanceâ€, wishing to be let in. Sh...
Ali: Ripples in the Middle East?
Znet Article, March, 07 2005
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
IT IS not hard to discern the equivalent of a spring in the step in the recent output of the commentators and analysts who either supported the American aggression against Iraq, or criticized it desultorily only after they saw it developing into a...
