News & Society
Disney / ABC deserve credit-Sept. 11th ABC movie
By Richard Stoyeck · 19 years ago
It is rare, rare indeed when a major media entity bucks the trend, and does what it believes in. Recently ABC under Disney’s guidance aired the $40 million production, “The Path to 9/11”. This was ...
Afghanistan given up to the warlords
By John Taylor · 19 years ago
Fifteen thousand American soldiers, helped by two thousand back-up troops of the allied troops, try, without much success, to ensure a pretence of order in Afghanistan. The presidential election wanted by Washington is quite unable ...
Sept. 11th ABC movie-Historically accurate
By Richard Stoyeck · 19 years ago
Sometimes Hollywood does get it right. The landings at the beaches of Normandy in the Steven Spielberg movie, “Saving Private Ryan” is a vivid, stunning, blood and gore portrayal of the horror that young American ...
The War on Truth
By Amy Goodman · 19 years ago
President George W. Bush has long preferred illusion to reality. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to ...
Croc Hunter and the notion of risk in business and life
By Richard Stoyeck · 19 years ago
Steve Irwin the international crocodile hunting celebrity from Australia died while filming a new TV program on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A videotape of the incident is purported to show Irwin on one side of ...
Sumner Redstone Fires Viacom CEO Tom Freston
By Geoff Gannon · 19 years ago
On Monday, Sumner Redstone fired Viacom’s CEO, Tom Freston. Yesterday, Viacom announced that its Board of Directors had appointed Philippe Dauman President and CEO and Thomas Dooley Senior Executive V.P. and Chief Administrative Officer (a ...
Katrina: The Big One
By John Burnett · 19 years ago
Storm refugees, nearly all of them black, are on the move throughout the city. And they are refugees, as in, people fleeing misfortune and seeking refuge. NPR and other news organizations caved to pressure from ...
What Does It Really Mean To Be A Real U.S. Citizen?
By David Maillie · 19 years ago
It means we have rights. Rights that many have fought for and given their lives for. Unfortunately in current America there is, for the most part, two separate classes of citizenship, a bipartisanship if you ...
For the Love of Charity! The Economics of Parasitism
By Croydon J Hounslow · 19 years ago
Britain’s urban centres have been invaded by ‘Face-to-Face Fundraisers’ over the past few years. Termed ‘chuggers’ (shorthand for ‘charity muggers’) in popular parlance, these brightly-tuniced purveyors of bubbly roadside patter are the ambassadors of a ...
How Much Should We Care About The War?
By Evelyn Cole · 19 years ago
Really, how much time do you spend thinking about wars in the Middle East? And, if you're not traveling by air, about terrorist threats?
Do your thoughts and words affect either in any way? They ...
Is Peace in the Middle East Possible - History and the Bible Team up to Answer that Question
By Rev Michael Bresciani · 19 years ago
I watched one day as a news reporter interviewed a Muslim student in the lecture hall of one of America’s most prestigious schools. The young man was adorned with a silk headpiece and appeared to ...
Nuclear Terrorism
By Andrew Horan · 19 years ago
The major obstacle to nuclear terrorism is not obtaining the weapon. It is obtaining the terrorist group. A single terrorist fired the weapon that ignited World War 1. When the Archduke Ferdinand died, Europe erupted ...
Gas Prices To Come Down Unless George Bush And Big Oil Intervene
By David Maillie · 19 years ago
The average price of gasoline has now reached an all time high in the United States at $3.03 per gallon. Higher even than in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. The recent cease fire and UN agreement ...
What’s Going On In The “GO Zone”
By Chris Anderson · 19 years ago
Duck!!! Here comes another hurricane……. This is becoming a common mantra on the Gulf coast the last few years. I personally have cut more fallen trees out of my yard the last couple of years ...
The Arrogant Path To Extinction
By Nancy O'connor Phd · 19 years ago
If the richer developed Nations don’t help the poorer undeveloped nations on planet earth we are just speeding up the extinction of our species. People from the underdeveloped countries will continue to move legally or ...
Indian Train Bombings, Terrorism Strikes Again – Gas Masks
By Andy Jones · 19 years ago
Indian Train Bombings -Terrorism Attrocity
Indian train bombing incident is the most barbaric attack of terrorists on the civilized society. Seven bombs were blasted by terrorists in the highly packed commuter train in one of ...
South Africa Should License Research Lab on Genetically Modified Sorghum
By James Wachai · 19 years ago
Prof. Florence Wambugu, a renowned agricultural biotechnologist and the founder of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, is currently entangled in a row with the South African government over her plan to set up a multimillion ...
The Tale That Dogs the WAG
By Croydon J Hounslow · 19 years ago
Glancing through the red-tops on certain days over the past few weeks, one could be forgiven for thinking that England’s World Cup bid revolved not around 11 strapping male athletes on the pitch in Gelsenkirchen, ...
Truths about the Nehru Dynasty
By Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan · 19 years ago
At the very beginning of his book, The Nehru Dynasty, astrologer K.N.Rao mentions the names of Jawaharlal's father and grandfather. Jawaharlal's father was Motilal and Motilal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru.
And we all know ...
A Brief History of Flags
By Jatin Chawla · 19 years ago
In this day and age, the origin of flags is a highly debatable matter even though flags were used as symbols thousands of years ago by ancient cultures. There is a section of people who ...