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World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

American Defense Budget; Biggest Corporate Welfare, Massive Cuts Are Overdue!

Cutting the American Defense Budget or Military Spending is panacea for economic recovery, budget balancing and deficit reductions...

30,000 Mexicans Killed In Drug War, Violence, Made in the USA!

This is a story about American appetite for drugs and narcotics which has and is still ruining many lives in America and many neighboring nations, particularly, America's southern neighbor, the nation of Mexico...

Sack This “diplomatic” Boxer

The specter of physical and emotional spousal abuse is, sad to say, a much-hushed scandal in our society. It would be bad enough if the perpetrators were only ignorant peasants...

900 Africans Drown As NATO Ignores Humanitarian Catastrophes In Near Libya!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization with absolute military command, control and occupation of the area, continues to ignore and neglect the dire humanitarian disaster in and around Libya...

Western Nations Are Bankers For Gadahafi, Dictators, Tyrants: The Pope As Bankers For Mafia?

$80 Billion Dollars of Libyan money is hidden by Gadahaffi in America and Europe. It has now been revealed that western nations and their institutions have been acting as Gadahafi's bankers...

Some Reflections on the State of World Affairs

As the US President, Barack Obama undertakes diplomatic visits to Ireland, Britain, France and Poland, the nagging question that demands an answer is whether European states are losing their sovereignty?

Palestine Nationhood Imperative; As Israel Meets The World!

America will have to either support Palestine nationhood and democracy or America will be seen again as displaying biases in favor of Israel to "protect" Israel in the usual lopsided perennial way for the world to see...

The Libyan Case under International Law

There are rules of international law, which regulate warfare and which have been seriously violated by combatants during the Battle of Libya. It is the duty of a senior military officer to ensure that the Geneva Conventions on warfare are scrupulously respected...

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Capital Market Probe: Unmask the Culprits

What kind of confidence are we talking about here when the entire world is watching a nation that is not bold enough to tell itself the hard truth? Confidence while the criminals who used the Capital Market as their platform to steal trillions are yet to be arrested and brought to face the law?

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