Immanuel Kant and Scott Peck

Scott Peck was to psychology what Immanuel Kant was to Western philosophy. In the same way as Kant had used philosophy, after a blossoming during Enlightenment and Romanticism, to affectuate a return to the Protestant dogmas that philosophy had sought to replace, so did Peck...

Militias and Despotism: Who is fooling whom?

Although I have never owned a gun, I am not against private gun ownership. There are however attitudes held by many gun owners that are completely ridiculous, and it is time that these be addressed.A gun owner in rural Virginia once responded to Washington Post that "guns...

OLARA OTUNNU STARTS TOUR OF NORTHERN UGANDA (PHOTOS)

Former UN Under Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict Olara Otunnu returned to Uganda last August after 23 years in exile. Otunnu was elected president of one of Uganda's oldest opposition parties, the...

Please Keep it Straight, CNN and Amnesty International

To Amnesty International / CNN After reading your staff Benjamin Zawacki's comment on CNN that the Thai government uses live rounds "against persons who are unarmed and present no credible threat", as a Thai citizen living in Bangkok, I have the the duty to response to your...

Thailand's politics Apr-May 2010:Thaksin, International Terrorist

"Situation in Thailand April-May 2010 Background For more than seven decades since becoming a democracy with a constitutional monarchy, Thailand has been going through the process of becoming a full-fledged democracy. In recent years, this process of democratisation has...

Bangkok Ablaze: Red Shirts Continue To Hold Off Government Troops

BANGKOK--Pro-democracy protesters armed with Molotov cocktails, slingshots, and fireworks entrenched behind barricades of burning tires and plastic bags filled with  debris continue to hold off government...

Thaksin Shinawatra, bibliography, more facts than wikipedia

People's Alliance for DemocracyAnnouncementAnnouncement Number 2/2008 June 13, 2008 Retaliation Against Minister of Interior Who Illegally Attempted to Obstruct Freedom of Information (Last Edit 2009-01-30)Announcement Number 11/2008 May 30, 2008 Purge of Thaksin Regime...

The death of the American Century

"It's hard to say just when the dream was born. With Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet circling the globe? With Woodrow Wilson's war to make the world safe for democracy?"

Logic of Beliefs

Every belief has its inherent logic, possessing of potentials that affectuate whether or not they are consciously articulated or believed. This is true for both religious and secular ideologies, and the history of major beliefs show exactly what these potentials...

Haiti: Disaster and Opportunity

Much attention has been focused on the recent disastrous earthquake in Haiti. While this is certainly a newsworthy story, there is another one that has not been as widely publicized but that is newsworthy as well, and it is a more positive one. Haiti has the best...

Yesterday's gathering of the "Red Shirts" in Bangkok

The supporters of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), or better known as the "red shirts" started gathering again to prepare new demonstrations after those a year ago:...

Return of the Taliban

"But this cat and mouse game is not going to end anytime soon. It will suck economies dry as this war against terror will drag on for many years to come. USA has been the biggest player in this at every level....

Freedom to film

WORLDbytes’ crews of young volunteers learning to shoot alternative news programmes are regularly stopped from filming on the streets of London. Yet it is not against the law to film in public spaces, to...

Permanent residence may be granted the right to vote in Japan.

By, Uwe Paschen. To give or not to give permanent residence the right to vote in Japan, this is the question many ask them self these days.  Japan may give permanent residence the right to vote at the local...

Minnesota Judicial Tyrants play their ugly Apparatchik hand

This is an article I wrote comparing what is happening to a Minnesota Group seeking Judicial Reform and Accountability to KGB style tactics they are encountering. " A few years ago I bristled at a statement by then...

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