"Socio-Capitalism" Is This the new order world wants?

Both Capitalism and Socialism all over the world have failed bringing down poverty level. World economic environment has destabilised by disturbing rise of Unemployment (DW news) and poverty (poverty in America CNN). Bank failures have created havoc among citizens. Fear of...

Eat Wings Raise Funds Buffalo Wild Wings

Buffalo Wild Wings has a way to help your organization meet its financial needs or goals.  Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 20% of all pre-taxed food sales (less alcohol and promotional discounts) from any quest...

Council to sell empty homes for £1 to housing benefit tenants

Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants to offer loans of £30,000 to families hit by housing benefit cuts to refurbish empty homes which it will sell to them for a £1. The measure is part of a move by the council to...

Youth, Commitment and Life-Owning Lies

The problem with people making life decisions when they are very young is that they do not come from the position of adequate knowledge. They know only what they have been taught; and if what they have learned were incomplete or corrupt, then it will take them a long time to...

Be part of the 'Media and the Riots' big debate

Marc Wadsworth at The-Latest.Com We all have views about whether or not the shocking events in our English inner cities of August were covered in a fair and balanced way by big media. Many Black people, particularly young ones, I have spoken with think the “riots”...

Communitarianism and Creeping Totalitarianism

The business entities, from single proprietorships to giant corporations, are made accountable to the public through the mechanism of competition from other companies, as well as through scrutiny by media and law. The government entities are made accountable to the public...

The Karachi mix

"Go to any bazaar in Karachi, particularly in one of its older areas, like Saddar, and soon the metropolitan character of the city will start to unfold in front of your eyes… A child with hair as golden as the...

Focus on Everything: Traveling in India

While walking the streets of many Indian towns it is hard not to notice the children rummaging through trash pits.  Before leaving for India, many people told me to ignore the unpleasantness I would experience and to concentrate on the beauty of India.  However, by doing...

Communities and Corruption

Corruption is something that many people believe to take place either in the government or in business. In fact, corruption can happen for many reasons and in many different kind of locales. The worst corruption I've seen was not associated with usual suspects....

Ode to Karachi

My book, 'Karachiwala: a subcontinent within a city' was launched on Wednesday 24 February in Karachi. I have included in it interviews/stories of over sixty families, groups and individuals of varied...

Gunslingers and Human Rights

The Second Amendment does not simply postulate people having guns. The Second Amendment postulates this: "A well-regulated militia necessary for the defense of the free state." It occurs to me that none of the people who have guns in America, except the military, come close...

Cyber Or 26 What’s In A Name

Cyber Or meets "whats in a name". Dr, Dror investigates Cyber Or (light) and the names by which it flies under. " BY Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror Over the past few years, an important new phenomenon has emerged in Jewish Life in the US and in Israel as well. That is the development,...

End the farse, free doctors

Robert Templer, Asia program director of the International Crisis Group called government of Sri Lanka to alter course, provide a clear timetable to resettle the IDPs,  and release the doctors. An estimated...

Building a Culture of Trust in Politics

A culture of trust is vital to solving the big problems of our age.by Joe Brewer, May 2, 2009, Cognitive Policy Works: "I believe that a culture of trust is desperately needed if we are to address the looming...

On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda

By Khaled Abu ToamehThis was written by one of the most respected Palestinian Journalists in the Middle East. I encourage everyone  to read this piece because it is sanity in the midst of hatred. The bigots and haters of Israel in North America and around the globe have...

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