from the book

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

publisher - Harper-Collins

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

The Empire and the People

War is the Health of the United States

Self-help in Hard times

A People's War ?

The Impossible Victory: Vietnam

The Seventies: Under Control ?

Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartiasan Consensus

The Coming Revolt of the Guards

Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:

"They.....

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Eminent historian and scholar Dr Mubarak Ali traces back the history of sub-continent and tries to find out what ails the Pakistan-In

dia relations. Dr Mubarak Ali finds fault with the colonial legacy and says “it was the British w...

ANALYSIS: A gender-blind ‘neo-miratha’ —Farhat Taj

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

Tribal leaders in FATA have been killed along with their female relatives. The aim of such attacks seems to be to wipe out any possibility, no matter how remote it may be, of the female heirs taking up the anti-Taliban struggle

Miratha is a Pashto word that refers to the now obsolete practice of killing all males, adult and minors, in a family so that there are no male heirs left to inherit the family...

VIEW: Does Pakistan make sense? — II —Haider Nizamani

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

If persistence of Baloch nationalism points towards limited success of the Pakistani national project, the dilution of Pashtun nationalism shows that Pakistani identity can co-opt regions by making them economic and political stakeholders in a united Pakistan

Punjab’s nationalism is often subsumed in Pakistani nationalism, but there have been instances in the recent past when Pakistani nationalism di...

analysis: Drone attacks: challenging some fabrications —Farhat Taj

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

The people of Waziristan are suffering a brutal kind of occupation under the Taliban and al Qaeda. Therefore, they welcome the drone attacks

There is a deep abyss between the perceptions of the people of Waziristan, the most drone-hit area and the wider Pakistani society on the other side of the River Indus. For the latter, the US drone attacks on Waziristan are a violation of Pakistani’s ...