The television shows American Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi sitting in harmony with the spiritual leader of Tibet at his safe haven in north India. And we say bravo. Like Steven Spielberg recently, who we also applauded, a brave voice who speaks as a leader has said shame, China. We all know that the policy of China has been to undermine the h

To watch the news from the middle east can be so painful. We can feel our hearts ache for those dying and being blown apart each day, we can despair, or still search for ways to stop the bloodshed. How we can best apply a kind and wise use of compromise and decision to create fair agreements that all can abide by is still nowhere in sight. Per

A student of life, and well into the final third of my mortal life, one can hear one's own folly and reckless statements, long since internally dismissed and distanced from, come at us from the mouths of others. Whether it is listening, as long as I could, to a modern Ralph Nader who I and millions had revered for his vital expose of the fail

Healthy lifestyles would not have suggested you be a capitalist in 1948 Shanghai when Chairman Mao came to power. And history well knows indeed, for the decade to succeed, it was off with their lives, a million bullets a month, for those months to proceed. By 1950, the Panda was so secure in its new throne, while North Korea was a distraction, it t

Visualize being in the indigenous Third World. Imagine an indigenous populist political candidate from a populist political party running for mayor. This candidate campaigns throughout the countryside blaming the current local political administration of being corrupt, leaving the municipality in debt and not doing anything for "the people"

Thank Heavens for George Bush! With elections coming up, neither Republicans nor Democrats want to appear soft on terrorism, genocide, nuclear detonation in urban areas, nor overdue parking tickets. Both parties agreed to take care of you, me and Grandma Jones and make sure that all the telecommunication companies are free to work with Georgie Wu

John McCain is out of touch with the American public. At a time when nearly 60% of Americans use text messaging, how does the McCain campaign not have a text message element? His competitors, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton sure seem to be more in touch with the American public, especially younger adults who must find the McCain campaign to b

With the record numbers of newly registered voters, the signal is clear that the voters want to take part in picking our next president. With this interest, there is a new wave of discussions on the role of the executive branch of office. Many wonder if the promises of the presidential candidates about health care, fixing the economy, social secu

With record numbers of new registered voters, the signal is clear that they want to take part in picking our next president. With this interest is the need to know more about the powers of the presidency. The power to make appointments is an area that has caused U.S. citizens to get involved. The Constitution gives the President the power,

Surely most of us have been in a financial quagmire at some point in our lives and learned that borrowing your way out is not the answer. Not Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling. As the global recession lumbers closer, the government has announced its latest attempt to cope; re-writing the rules. With less money coming in from tax revenue the gove

'One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly'. Nietzsche. The UK is set to introduce their first ever End of Life Care strategy to enable people to have more choice about how and where they die. The government is expected to fund this strategy with a 286m pound investment over a three year period. After much publicise

Invertebrates like Nancy Pelosi and Neville Chamberlain are the fools who men like Adolf Hitler and George W. Bush count on to help them build their empires.

Barack Obama, once the darling can do no wrong presidential candidate of the media, seems to be on a slippery downward slope since his highly publicized foreign tour to the Mid East, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Europe. "Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee," wrote Dana Milbank, a col

Hamas is waiting, and hoping, for an Obama victory in November. During the Doha Debates (BBC, May 27, 2008), leading Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Al Zahar categorically implied that the only way out of the current impasse in the Gaza strip would be a neutral and balanced administration in Washington. Senator Obama can claim that he rejects any endors

The election of Abdullah Gul as President of Turkey on 28 August 2007 is controversial because of his Islamic background. Now that both the Prime Minister and President have religious backgrounds, his election is widely viewed as a threat to the secular ethos of the Turkish State. Although Mr Gul, in his accession speech, pledged allegiance to t