Opinion

ABOUT ten years ago I witnessed my first Conga line.  One of my brothers had just gotten married and all invited guests, including myself, were mixing it up at the reception.  All of a sudden people began to slither through ...

  Conquering armies have taken Kandahar-Kabul route since the time of Alexander the GreatHISTORY tells us that when Kandahar falls, Kabul will follow. Of course it doesn't happen quite that quickly. But Canadians should keep history in mind after last week's ...

 TWO statements on Shariah, made in February and March, 2008 by two prominent leaders in the UK and US have generated a storm of protest and praise. Both the statements and the reaction they generated are of interest ...

BECAUSE of the negative and antagonistic slant of Western propaganda aimed at Zimbabwe since the beginning of the 21st century, diplomatic activities of these countries’ representatives on the ground must be monitored carefully. This is the most dependable ...

FOR decades, measures of child well-being in the United States—infant mortality rates, the percentage of children whose parents had steady employment, and general health indicators—saw gradual improvements or stable levels for the overall population. Since 2000, however, many aspects of ...

 THE Bangladesh government, charged with the task of cleansing the nation’s polity and bringing vigor to its economy by streamlining the country’s various institutions, has allowed on 11 June the former prime minister and opposition Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina ...

UNLIKE English poet Alexander Pope – I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came – I suffer from a natural discomfort with numbers. Which is why one had to be more than dependent on one’s more calculating classmates when it ...

THE Constitution of the United States of America guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press. TV reporters in the USA, however, are not completely free because they have to satisfy their sponsors and the stations’ producers and ...

ANOTHER Jewish pimp shows its real colors in broad day light. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. This son of a Muslim commits to dole $ 30 billion to Jewish occupiers of Muslim Palestine for maintaining their occupation and for ...

THE US military may have targeted Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud Several in an airstrike on June 14, according to several reports from Pakistan. Baitullah's hideout in the town of Makeen in South Waziristan was hit with three missiles, ...

WE speak to Ohio Congress member and former Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich about his impeachment effort against President Bush. On Wednesday, Congress voted to send Kucinich’s bill to the House Judiciary Committee, where it’s unlikely to be considered before ...

VINCENT Bugliosi is one of the most successful prosecutors in this country, with a record including twenty-one murder convictions without a single loss. With a new book, he outlines his case for the prosecution of George W. Bush for murder. ...

AS Osama bin Laden lay dying, December of 2001...might he have imagined that seven years later he would be on bogeyman life-support, still officially issuing messages as ruling poster boy for America’s mindless, force-fed terror obsession? The hammerlock on thoughts ...

HOW to explain the oil price? Why is it so high? Are we running out? Are supplies disrupted, or is the high price a reflection of oil company greed or OPEC greed. Are Chavez and the Saudis conspiring against us? ...

Statement by Cynthia McKinney, Power to the People Candidate for U.S. President, on the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's Presidential Candidate in 2008 - statement issued June 9, 2008 ON Saturday, June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton ...

AMERICAN troops in Iraq would be confined to their bases and private security guards subject to local law if Iraq gets its way in negotiations with theUS over the future status of American forces. According to ...

AFTER Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. negotiated an understanding with Israel—a “gentlemen’s agreement” —stipulating that neither nation would thenceforth conduct espionage operations in the other’s territory without consent. But the agreement ...

5 Minute Video By John Stewart A very telling piece from John Stewart showing what Jimmy Carter said that ANY Presidential Candidate MUST be approved by AIPAC    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20064.htm ...

LIKE a Muslim undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the Pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay ...

ONE of my many major grouses with the 'mainstream' Indian media (and this applies to the dominant Western media as well) is the despicable way in which it treats Pakistan. It is as if bad news about Pakistan is always ...