Tendulkar-Modi cricket’s most powerful men

"Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi made it to a list of 25 most powerful global sports figures. Modi at 19th and Tendulkar at 23rd spot, are ahead of Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova and soccer club Inter Milan’s...

Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying

"Watching Wall Street and the American real-estate market crumble over the past 10 months has not inspired great confidence in our wonderful free-market economy or the land pirates who run it. As someone who recently wrestled with the causes and consequences of the Great...

Property rights suit threatened in AZ

"The county Board of Supervisors recently changed the zoning of his property back to farmland, a move that Herbert says reduces the value of his 40-acre lot south of Casa Grande by more than half a million dollars. "

Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed

By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project - NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer. ...

Gulf War - Searching For a Strategy?

"The departure of Donald Rumsfeld heralds the return of some old Bush family friends. Here's how they plan to get the U.S. out of Iraq. In the heady days after the first Gulf War, Robert Gates liked to tell a story about his boss, George Herbert Walker Bush. As Bush 41 was...

Legends Of Dune: Butlerian Jihad By Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson

This article is part of the meta-post 4134 Words Or How The Writers Of The New Dune Novels Sold Out. This article gives a book review on Legends Of Dune: Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson. Initally, I enjoyed this series. But in retrospect, it is filled...

Tidbits from Hunters Of Dune

This article is part of the meta-post Another 3000 words or how copyrights are creating a controversy on Chartreuse. This article gives a few details of the upcoming book in the Dune universe Hunters Of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson which will be published on the...