Just two weeks into the Obama administration, naysayers are already pronouncing the man and his administration a failure! And the reason, his promise to institute ethics reform and the revelation that some of his nominees had lapsed tax payments. That’s right. The same group who sat idly by, and in most cases were accomplices...
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Crisis and Contradictions in American Intelligentsia
For quite some time now, I have often found myself asking the question “Why does the greatest country in the world keep making stupid political blunders in terms of foreign policy?”. The evidence of this myopic and sometimes disastrous political miscalculations are broad and varied: from starting local wars in the Far East to...
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The hunt for oil: Another wasteful $1 Billion foreign aid
The recent news that once again the Bush administration plans to announce a $1 billion package of aid to help rebuild another country, this time, Georgia after its rout by Russian forces last month, is yet again a demonstration that the Bush administration is clueless about the use of economic power in foreign affairs....
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Muzzled Citizenry
Election years, to me brings out some of the contradictions in American civil society. In a country that is one of the freest in the world, we are, ironically, the most censored. Censored, not by the government, but by ourselves. The U.S. seems to be the most self-policing country in the world. Some of...
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Are we gearing up for another war?
The recent escalation of rhetoric between Israel and Iran makes one wonder if the Middle East is gearing up for another war. Western nations have been pressuring Iran for quite some time now to “give up its nuclear ambitions”. While Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, there does not seem...
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What in the world is Hamid Karzai smoking?
I almost fell out of my chair the other day upon hearing the news that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was threatening to take the fight to Pakistan if they (Pakistan) did not stop supporting the border-crossing Taliban insurgents. What is he smoking? Or better yet, maybe he should ease up a little on the...
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