Amitabh Pal is the Managing Editor of The Progressive. He has interviewed the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter and John Kenneth Galbraith for the magazine. In addition to his role as the Managing Editor, Pal is the Co-Editor of the Progressive Media Project.
Iran is hardly the first Muslim country even in the recent past to have seen the use of peaceful protests against an authoritarian regime.read more

Boeing, BAE Systems (British), Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon were the largest producers of death, with arms profits for Boeing itself topping $4 billion.read more

Sadly, the Obama Administration seems to be backing away from support for courageous Egyptian reformers.read more

The best way to counter the extremists would be to help Pakistani citizens attain a decent quality of life.read more

The free-market dogma of getting the government out of health care has slowed the response to the outbreak.read more

The real tragedy here is that even with the cessation of conventional hostilities, the violence will probably not end.read more

Unless there is a change in the fundamental nature of the Chinese dictatorship, Tibet will quite certainly languish in its current state.read more

The energy level of the debate over U.S. policies toward the Middle East, already quite atrophied, will further decline.read more

It has several attributes that should prevent it from coming apart at the seams or being taken over by a bunch of ragtag jihadists.read more

It’s OK to lampoon him. But let’s skip all the comments related to his Indian background. They are repugnant.read more

A man as smart as Obama should know that the Taliban resurgence is in good part due to two reasons that no amount of additional troops can solve.read more

It should look into the allegations, not the least to refute the assertion that the court is an instrument of the West.read more

Obama needs to depart even more from the approach of the previous occupant of the White House.read more
The Mumbai attacks seem to be quite certainly the handiwork of jihadists: Note the seeking out of Americans and British citizens and the attack on the Jewish center, the first significant case of anti-Semitism on Indian soil.read more
Obama’s approach to the rest of the world may not be a night and day difference from Bush's.read more
