November 2017

CBM’s For The Youth!

(Recalling youth from violence through confidence building measures is good but the question is why did the youth take to violence in the first place?) The Chief Minister has announced…

Plight of Kashmiri Prisoners

V.R. Krishna Iyer (J) has rightly observed : “In our world prisons are still laboratories of torture, warehouses in which human commodities are sadistically kept and where spectrums of inmates…

The Betraying Arab League

  Once again, the Arab League woke up from its deep slumber on November 19th 2017. The League was in a deep paralyzing sleep despite the urgent need for its…

Rawda And Combating Terrorism

The barbaric attack that killed 305 worshippers including 27 children during Friday prayers ( 24 November 2017) at the Rawda mosque in North Sinai, Egypt is a tragic reminder to…

 The Third That’s Needed

  "We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." -- from The Tempest In Shakespeare's The Tempest, it is characteristic of…

Barbarism Is Back With A Bang

The UP CM Adityanath says criminals will be killed, that no power in the world can stop building of a temple at Ayodhya even though there is an established judicial…

A Decent Shelter For India’s Homeless

One of the most challenging problems of our times is homelessness. While we continue to record improvements in dealing with poverty, homelessness has been plagued with an unimaginative response from…

Berlin-Moscow, Moscow-Berlin

(Dateline: Rome, Nov. 23, 2017) We should make no mistake about who commands in the European Union. Germany commands. For example: The “special Paris-Berlin relationship” makes headlines, but for Germany that…

Conflicts Over Resources

Small scale and massive resource fights are totally understandable while predictable. They've been transpiring for millennia because practically everything alive needs to steal energy, directly or indirectly, from something or…

Supporting Truth Or Spouting Lies

Private companies -- i.e., Fox News, CBS, "New York Times," Twitter,Facebook, etc. -- can and will slant, shape and selectively share news, and other information in any perspective that their…

 What The Sufi Said

In your heart of hearts, a heart-shaped mirror.  Mirror of peace between wings of fire. In that living crucible—a gleam of blue light.  Light is your soul: Angel of Life.…

Financial Literacy: Key To Economic Freedom

  Financial services are like clean water and electricity. They are made possible though ideal financial societies that provide safe and convenient ways of managing their everyday simple monetary affairs.…

History, Law And Ratko Mladić

While Zimbabwe was changing under various inexorable forces of power, the more sterile surrounds of The Hague and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia offered the scene for…

Overseeing The Slaughter Overseas

  Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches I'll recruit my army from the orphanages -- Bob Dylan, Thunder on the Mountain The Southeast corridor of the U.S. --…

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