-
It was not only Baghdad, of course. Iraq was being systematically destroyed, from ancient southern Basra to haunting, historic Mosul in the north. In the West, destruction was such that it was not even noticed by the outside world that about seventy miles of Iraq had been entirely illegally donated to Jordan, the border was simply "moved."
-
As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, and because the United States of America has elected itself as the world policeman and meddles in the affairs of other countries, because the State Department was running the USA during his first term, then the citizens of the world have a right to their say.
-
You know Boeing. One of the biggest corporations in the world. They build beautiful commercial jets, and they are so busy right now in the world today. Well, every single CEO at Boeing, every single one of their accomplishments gets pushed out of the way. All of them. There is not one single thing that Boeing can say
-
The modern world likes to be presented as always changing, revolutionizing and modernizing. Well, one may say that its tide of pollution, materialism and mediocrity improves all around: but the traits are mainly the same as two centuries ago. Think of all those who nowadays criticize America: they all just repeat Henry David Thoreau's superb prose
-
Since Dr. Tahirul Qadri last month landed in Pakistan and promised us a revolution much guessing has been going on about who might have sent him, and what would he mean when talking about a revolution. What we have seen instead of a revolution last week was a Grand Tamasha of all sorts in which Qadri and the ruling coalition were playing together
-
The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever conceived: the creation of money by sovereign governments, debt-free. Most commentators have missed the real significance of the trillion dollar coin. For centuries, a secret battle has raged over who should create the nation's money supply
-
A Harvard scientist has started searching for the woman, who would agree to give birth to a Neanderthal child. The woman will be used to test the scientific abilities to clone a caveman. The woman will receive an embryo with the Neanderthal DNA, placed in stem cells. child labor would be significantly different from what women usually experience
-
I am hardly surprised that President Obama, who seems to have to problem arming American soldiers to interfere with the sovereignty of other nations, has decided to again extend executive power, this time to ban and register firearms. The question is whether he's doing this out of care for protecting schools or something else
-
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has recently noted in his report that mankind was standing on the brink of a new era. According to him, in the next twenty years, people will need 50 percent more food than they need now, 45 percent more electricity and 35 percent more drinking water. What is there in store for humanity?
-
Russian nuclear energy demonstrated impressive achievements in the global market "of nuclear services" in 2012. In this area, Rosatom State Corporation wins competition with major Western companies, even though cooperation in the field of "peaceful atom" remains under strong political pressure