Pakistan has been unsuccessful in designing a stable presidency. Two competing models vie for approval. Pakistan's formulaic constitution, borrowed from the legal-political traditions of England and India, establishes a ceremonial presidency subordinated to parliament. FULL STORY...
The top dozen countries in terms of 5 or more Gold medals were the host nation China (#1, 51 Gold medals), the US (#2, 36), Russia (#3, 23), the UK (#4; 19; the next Olympic host nation), Germany (#5, 16), Australia (#6, 14), South Korea (#7, 13), Japan (#8, 9), Italy (#9, 8), France (#10, 7), Ukraine (#11, 7), the Netherlands (#12, 7), Jamaica (#13, 6), Spain (#14, 5) and Kenya (#15, 5). FULL STORY...
Can anyone imagine Don Corleone asking for "his favors" at the very start; then later, have all grantors queue at his door to request audience so they may ask for the return favors? Strange, you say? Perhaps, but America has become this new Don Corleone when it comes to this business of favor-exchanges in affairs of state… and bullyism. FULL STORY...
The World was amazed by the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony and is now enthusiastically absorbed with the achievements of marvellous top athletes – which athlete gained gold by getting there 0.01 second faster and a deluge of other such sporting statistics. FULL STORY...
We live in an Orwellian world in which there is a massive suspension of reason, the gross abuse of language (“war is peace, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom”) and a huge gulf between reality and perception. Our Mainstream media tell us endlessly that it is OK to invade,.. FULL STORY...
On July 24, Barak Obama stood where a 96-mile-long wall of barbed wire and concrete once separated the ideologies and lives of East and West Berlin. He told a crowd of 200,000 that "history reminds us that walls can be torn down" and that the "greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us one from another." FULL STORY...
One of the common refrains I heard from progressive people in Pakistan and India during my month there this summer was, "We love the American people -- it's the policies of your government we don't like." FULL STORY...
This past Sunday another citizen of the world, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, started his walk in that never-ending pilgrimage we refer to as immortality. And he did it, not just as a laureate man of letters, but as a man of well thought-out choices, conscience and true humanity; a man who proudly and joyfully accepted his Russian beginnings,.. FULL STORY...
So far, Bush's plan to maintain a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq has been stymied by resistance from the Iraqi government. Barack Obama's timetable for withdrawal of American troops has evidently been joined by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Bush has mentioned a "time horizon," and John McCain has waffled. FULL STORY...
A luncheon engagement this past Monday turned out to be more than a midday feeding of the body or a pleasant get-together with a friend; it presented an opportunity to look into the mirror of my soul. You know… that two-sided mirror of our conscience which is both concave and convex,.. FULL STORY...
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