Where are you, Zahir Ebrahim?

You worked relentlessly, putting out article after deeply- researched article on your website, Project Humanbeings First. Articles on the forces shaping our world, the media, the dialectic, the Zionist project, politics in Pakistan, on political ideologues of all nationalities and stripes, letters from your correspondents.

Your were a fount of knowledge and insight, able to take me to task on everything from Vladimir Putin’s alleged financial assets to the posers and pretenders of dissentstream. Some thought you evil for this. You could be harsh, but you were not evil. A broken heart for your country drove you.

Your website now appears scattered over various archives. So much unpaid work over a decade or more, gone. Your books, in pdf form, are surely somewhere, right? You printed them out and preserved them, I hope. You are most welcome to put them here on my site for preservation, wherever you are. I didn’t agree with all your views, but I recognize a brave person struggling to say real things, letting his voice sound, even if only in echoes in the vast silence of the cyber gulag to which the untermenschen of the internet are consigned.

No email account seems to work for you, now that Google has wiped you off blogger. How does one get in touch? Are your wife and children safe? Where are you?

I remember how you teased me for my paranoia. Who’s interested in wiping out blogs like ours, you asked, with all the confidence of your PhD from MIT, your engineering patents, your work in defense technology in Silicon Valley.  Use blogger or free wordpress and save yourself the headache, you counseled.

You should have heeded me.