Sunjeev Bery

Tag: Huffington Post

  • Dollar vs. Dollar: U.S. Consumers Battle U.S. Taxpayers in Global Drug War

    The Huffington Post Posted: February 3, 2010 By Sanjeev Bery Although the reporting has improved in recent years, U.S. media coverage of the “war on drugs” continues to ignore the economic realities of just who is fighting who in the conflict. The drug war is best understood as a battle of dollar versus dollar —…

  • Why Deepak Chopra is wrong

    The Huffington Post 05/05/09 by Sanjeev Bery, Sahar Shafqat It is always easy to tell someone else what they need to do. Just point your finger, clear your throat, and boldly offer your advice. Don’t worry about the realities of history — just speak your mind. In his recent essay, “The Dilemma of the ‘good’…

  • Help those who ask for it.

    Americans are only learning about Pakistan from Americans, and that’s a problem.  Too much of what passes for “news” about Pakistan is really just one American telling the other about how the Taliban are on the verge of taking over the nation.  Nevermind that there might be 10,000 Taliban troops and 170 million Pakistanis. One…

  • Reacting: William Bradley on Huffington Post

    I couldn’t help but react to William Bradley’s April 30th Huffington Post column on Afghanistan and Pakistan.  It had some interesting points, but it was also filled with vaguely orientalist notions of Pakistani security issues. There were the noble generals, the scary ISI, and the invisible 170 million civilians who would soon fall to a…