Now, as anyone who should read this knows – I am a cynic, and a very big one. And something is beginning to worry me. I fully agree that MPs should be investigated, and, indeed prosecuted if they have done something wrong – after all they are still UK citizens and...
opinion by The_Cynic | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 81 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Latest AP report highlighted the chaos in Iran today.Riot police fired tear gas and chased dissidents who gathered in the thousands in Tehran in defiance of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's warning to...
opinion by WisdomMountain | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 200 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
Is it still called debate when only one side controls the conversation? That's the question the 62 million Americans who didn't vote for Obama are asking themselves. 62 million Americans now have absolutely no voice in the way our country is being governed. No say in the...
" I detest fascism and hate racism. But the election for the first time of two members of the British National Party (BNP) to the European Parliament I welcome, rather than oppose for knee jerk emotional reasons. Democracy isn't always pretty. As chief Times leader...
created by Contribsed | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 127 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Over 150,000 people came to honor the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in Victoria Park, event organizers said Thursday. Francesca Ayala reports from Hong Kong. " HONG KONG -- Thousands of people...
created by fayala | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 305 views | 80 recommendations | 6 comments
This year in commemorating 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Students' Democracy Movement, Tibetans in many part of the world joined to show their solidarity with the Chinese people who are seeking justice and freedom. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and...
opinion by tlekshay | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 211 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
Today, at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, Tibetans and Burmese refugees marked 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre to show solidarity with the Chinese people who are longing for freedom and democracy in China.
created by tlekshay | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 135 views | 30 recommendations | 2 comments
Hong Kong's former church leader spoke about the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and during a press conference on Monday. " Cardinal Joseph Zen said he wanted an official inquiry into what happened so future generations could tell the...
created by fayala | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 94 views | 12 recommendations | 0 comments
Myanmar for the last couple of decades was blended with trauma under the bloody realm of Military Juntas which makes headline every other day. Rangoon, despite being a member of United Nations plainly nullifies the international principles on human rights and carries out...
opinion by tlekshay | 3 years ago 186 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Professor Alan Dershowitz appeared on the Doha Debates, hosted at Georgetown University. The subject of the debates was Should the United States get tough on Israel? Dershowitz argues that Israel's high level of...
created by Shawn87 | 4 years ago 115 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Burma's pro-democracy leader and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been detained at Insein prison in Rangoon and has been charged under section 22 of the State Protection...
opinion by enigmaimages | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 206 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
By, Uwe Paschen. Could this be the beginning of the end for Capitalism? On Saturday another demonstration took place with an estimated 100,000 Workers marching through Berlin in protest and anger. Stating on...
created by Uwe Paschen | 4 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2190 views | 76 recommendations | 37 comments
Fijian strong man, Commodore Frank Bainimarama warned the Methodist Church in Fiji to stay out of politics. The Methodist Church in Fiji has in the past stood up for democracy. A senior Methodist minister was arrested and detained while the military investigated...
created by Barbara McPherson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 111 views | 12 recommendations | 0 comments
" The U.S. Constitution was never written for, nor was the U.S. system of government ever intended to be a “democracy”, but rather, a “representative republic”. Many of the founding fathers feared creating...
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...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 479 views | 3 recommendations | 0 comments