US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to reach out to the people of Pakistan, share their concern and put across the US concerns during her three day visit to the country. She met student groups, politicians, journalists, and women groups. Given here are excerpts from her ’round table with radio journalists’ in Islamabad,...
By Peter Symonds wsws.org An international agreement on the export and processing of Iran’s low-enriched uranium is yet to be finalised after sharp opposition emerged this week within the political establishment in Tehran. An initial Iranian response handed yesterday to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reportedly contains caveats that are unlikely to be...
US gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.5 percent on an annualized basis in the third quarter (July through September), breaking a string of four consecutive quarters of negative growth, the Commerce Department reported. President Barack Obama hailed the report as “welcome news” and “an affirmation that the recession is abating and the steps we’ve...
Terrorist by John Updike New York, Alfred A. Knopf 2006, 310 pp By David Walsh wsws.org Terrorist by American novelist John Updike is poorly conceived and unconvincingly written. It tells the story of a New Jersey teenager, Ahmad Mulloy-Ashmawy, the son of a long-absent Egyptian father and an Irish-American mother, who has chosen Islamic...
By David Walsh wsws.org American novelist John Updike died January 27 in Danvers, Massachusetts, at the age of 76. The cause of death was cancer. A major figure in American literature for the past half-century (his first full-length novel, The Poorhouse Fair, appeared in 1959), Updike published more than 60 works—novels, collections of short...
Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR, by Vadim Rogovin By Andrea Peters wsws.org The late Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin ‘s book presents a compelling and uncompromisingly political interpretation of the the Stalin had unleashed in 937-38 Stalin’s aim, the author insists, was to eliminate all traces of the substantial...
Prime Ministers of India and China, meeting at the Thai resort of Cha-Am Hua Hin on the sidelines of ASEAN summit, Saturday did not let their differences derail bilateral relations and side stepped Arunachal Pradesh and planned visit of Dalai Lama to that place which raised the border temperature in the past one month....
New Delhi: The United States appears keen to make big ticket defence sales to India which is has begun a $100 bn modernization of its armed forces. Hitherto, India was largely dependent on Russia and its earlier incarnation Soviet Union. Not any longer with Moscow driving a hard bargain and insisting on hard currency...
What constitutes the essence of prayer? Many prayers to God are current among the lovers of God, arising as they do from diverse cultural contexts. Some of the prayers invariably contain an element of asking something from God, either material or spiritual. In fact, God is so merciful and bountiful that even without their...
