October 2017

The Assertion Of Identity

  News reports about communities and regions asserting their identity are capturing media headlines everywhere. While the media gives a lot of coverage to an event or action connected with…

The Early Years In America

Several days ago, I spoke with my sister on the phone about the founding of the USA. For around forty minutes, she shared information with me on the topic. Here…

The Canada-Israel Nexus

The Canada-Israel Nexus. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Atlanta, Georgia. 2017. For a complex and critical examination of the relationship between Canada, Israel, Judaism, and Zionism, Eric Walberg’s new work The…

Wonders!

Hate Taj Mahal as ' Muslim' mausoleum After visiting it applauding as India's ' priceless gem' A wonder!

Chaos On Manus Island

There are standoffs, threats and continuing tensions over the imminent closure of the Manus Island Detention Centre. (The politically palatable term here is “processing centre”.)  This closure, instigated by legal…

The Origins of Modern Democracy

Part of the hegemonous stupidity or just plain ignorance that many people entertain is that modern democracy originated in Greece, with the French Revolution or with US Constitution writers. In…

Terse Turse Take

  "Oh no, you don't call people from Niger and Nigeria by the same name!" -- the author's home schooled youngest in 2006 I have reservations about Democracy Now!, but…

Redefining Pain

                                              The word pain literally means “ a highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury”. If so, what I experienced during the first 3 months of my treatment…

The Seamless Web Of Life VS. Greed

An interpretation of the grim, bleak story of "The Fisherman And His Wife". ... Background: "The Fisherman and His Wife" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm,…

Pain

The pain in my mind Affect my body. The pain in my body Affect my mind. Wonder whether these two Had arranged marriage Or love marriage. Since I remain single…

Pirating Into The Czech Elections

The Pirate Party are buccaneering their way into European politics, having found a foothold in the testy soil of Central Europe after colonising, in small measure, various hamlets in Sweden,…

Donald Trump Is Not The Only Problem

Donald Trump is not the only problem in the United States. The problem with the United States if truth to be known, are the American people. Sometimes it seems that…

Commitment Must Take A Different Course

  "As water seeks its own level, corruption creeps into the body politic to metastasize throughout society and its institutions." --from Geoff Dutton's NPR, the CIA and Corporatism While our mainstream media…

Can We Revive Periyarism?

Looking at the strengthening negative attitude of people towards positive ideologies, cultivation of which has given the opportunity to India to stand tall among other civilisations, anti-Periyarism not only throughout…

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