May 11, 2008
The Makh-Dooms of Pakistan
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring According to a little heard news, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has reportedly decided to drop the family prefix of Makhdoom from his name saying he wants to serve people...
April 27, 2008
War on Hunga
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Note : Hunga is Texanese for Hunger. What is hunger? When the glucose level of the liver falls below a threshold, a feeling is experienced that is called hunger, usually followed by a desire to...
April 13, 2008
Stoning of the Songbirds
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring The story below has been inspired by the news of a recent stoning of a man and a woman in Northern Pakistan. It is a work of fiction. The first stone whizzed way above her...
April 5, 2008
Smelling the Coffee, eh America?
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring 81 percent of respondents in a most recent New York Times/CBS News poll believed "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track," up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in...
March 26, 2008
Remembering Fallujah
For those who have been reading my work over the years, you know that Fallujah, Iraq has been a special concern of mine. It has been a testing ground of U.S. strategy, tactics, and weapons in so many ways. And...
March 20, 2008
I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring On this fifth anniversary of Iraq invasion, George Bush said, "Because we acted, the world is better and the United States of America is safer." With a million dead Iraqis, more than 30,000 dead and...
March 16, 2008
Stopping the Suicide Bomber
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring We have to condemn with loud voices, open speech and fearless thinking as much the terrorists as the system that spawns them Young men, full of youth's vigor, pumped up and brainwashed by patriotism or...
March 8, 2008
Full Circle at Yale
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Yale University is an awesome institution. For the academic year 2006-2007 for example, Yale was having on its campus over 13000 undergraduate, graduate and international students. Yale has 275 Campus buildings and its library holds...
February 14, 2008
Battle for God; Battleground Pakistan
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring The killing frenzy in Pakistan has reached a feverish pitch. In a rapidly darkening scarlet hue, the extremists are marching on suicide-bombing, beheading and maiming innocent citizens on their bloody path to their murky goal....
January 7, 2008
Happy New Year and Row on You Galley Slaves !
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Chances are that this year too fear will continue to be necessary, merit useless, intellect dangerous and blind obedience vital to the autocratic powers imposing themselves upon the global citizenry....
December 29, 2007
Benazir the Matchless
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Whoever killed her, snuffed out the last major representative of liberal/moderate voices in Pakistan I met Benazir. I spoke to her....
December 24, 2007
Perhaps the Universe will Never Blink
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' is a truly remarkable book. It is an ambitious attempt to decipher the mysteries of universe. Genuinely enthralling, it is a unique travelogue of science. Starting from...
December 8, 2007
Iran: Off the Hook or On the Hook?
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring If Israel is not happy with the NIE, it does not matter who else is. The bolt from the blue called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, which was released on Monday the 3rd...
November 19, 2007
On Savage Seas
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring This piece is neither an attempt at defamatory lampoon nor a noxious ridicule of General Musharraf's actions. It is with a heavy heart indeed that one pens these lines. With heavy heart because one is...
October 22, 2007
Pakistan, my fatherland, I weep for thee
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring On the worst carnage in Pakistan's history in which close to eight hundred innocent people were killed and maimed. Today I weep for this blood-smeared mournful land that you have become, marooned in the...
October 17, 2007
Putka versus Dubya : Who is going to kill us more?
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in St Petersburg, then known as Leningrad. His father Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, was a factory foreman and his mother, Maria Ivanovna Putina. He was raised...
October 8, 2007
If I were a tank, men would bite dogs
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring There are main battle tanks, there are fish tanks and there are simple water tanks. Then there are 'Think Tanks'. Odd as it may seem, Think Tanks are tanks that think. And just as...
October 5, 2007
Blackwater Rising
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring So what are these Blackwater operatives? Peace keepers, law enforcers or dogs of war, armed goons? Or are they the new Stasi? Ka-la- Pa-ni-, literally 'Black water' in Urdu/Hindi languages, a term for the...
September 29, 2007
If wishes were horses
By: Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that Iraq and Afghanistan are just the latest victims of the colonial behemoth in a continued saga of American imperialism and not any thing else....
June 6, 2007
Some democracy, America
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring The American President is selling a product that America does not have. President Bush is in Europe flaunting, in a hard sell pitch, his brand of democracy to the world at large and to Russia...
May 8, 2007
Still the Bumbling Fools
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring Thanks to the murderous fools in the current US administration, civil life in Iraq, now at the "point of no return", is teetering at the edge of total anarchy....
March 25, 2007
Hydrocarbon Law for Dummies
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who was in Japan last week for a four-day official visit, says U.S.-led coalition forces should be able to withdraw from his country in a year and half at...
March 19, 2007
A Million Deaths in Iraq
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring Today, I received a shocking email from the respected Doctor Gideon Polya regarding the death toll in Iraq as of March 2007. Before I publish the contents of that email, here is a brief...
March 18, 2007
Happy Anniversary Free Iraq!
By: Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring This 18th of March, 2007 it will be the 4th anniversary of Iraq's brutal occupation by American forces and also the 4th birthday of 'free Iraq'. The only things that have changed are the...
March 12, 2007
The Case of the Meddling Iranians
By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring For more than 18 months now, the George W. Bush administration has periodically raised the charge that Iran is meddling in Iraq. US defense officials recently displayed "Explosively Formed Projectiles" and heat sensitive detectors...
February 18, 2007
The Fall of the Roaming Empire
By: Anwaar Hussain of Fountainhead Forum The American imperial behemoth finally lies panting at the sandaled feet of its nemesis, the ragtag resistance fighters, in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan. Desperate attempts are on by the deniers to infuse...
January 17, 2007
No Honor among Murderers
By Anwaar Hussain at the Fountainhead Forum On Saturday December 30th, at 6:05 Iraq time, in Abu Ghraib prison, Saddam Hussain was executed not for the mass killing of some 100,000 Kurds, but for killing 148 Iraqis in the small...
September 25, 2006
Toward the Garden of Eden
By: Anwaar Hussain of Fountainhead Forum All indicators are that the rapidly emerging global civilization is here and here to stay, the teething-pains resistance offered by nationalistic, patriotic or religious forces not withstanding. The beginning of a global society may...
