
Left & Right in A Divided Europe
Even as West European countries seemed to have edged to the right of the political map – all three polities of central Europe lurched to the left. Socialists were elected to replace economically successful right wing governments in Poland,...

Five Strategies for The U.S. in Syria
WASHINGTON In the western media’s telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil, and for good reason. The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of...

Labour Peer Accused of Anti-Semitism
So if you’ve found guilty of dangerous driving and someone has died because of this, you’d be thankful that you got away with dangerous driving rather than death by dangerous driving, meaning you only got 8 weeks in prison rather than...

Mexico Sets The Tone on Hate Speech
Homophobic epithets are so pervasive across the globe that most heterosexual people are sadly unaware of the psychological and physical toil they have on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. Too often and cavalierly...

Billionaires Dumped US Stocks
Several billionaires showed loss of confidence to the Obama administration.
Warren Buffet, the 80-year-old primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway since 1951 and consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people,...

Anonymous Hacked U.S. Site
Aaron Swartz, known to some as the Robin Hood of Data, was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and internet activist. He was arrested on January 6, 2011 by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading...

How the US government really operates
The federal government is, in practice, a one-party state controlled by an oligarchy, which is a relatively small group, composed of financiers, politicians and journalists.

Why Punish Politicians for Cutting Entitlements?
David Brooks, an op-ed writer for the New York Times expressed an interesting take on our current fiscal mess on Meet the Press Sunday morning. He said:

What Democrats Want, Republicans Should Give Them
No 21st Century government can afford to ignore the socialistic appeal of welfare and entitlements. Democrat Party politicians have made welfare and entitlement legislation into an art form. Unfortunately they have failed to adequately fund...