Budget Amendment: Very Likely Contrary to the U.S. Constitution

Before getting down to serious business to craft some form of solution to the looming debt ceiling deadline of August 2, a number of bills will be brought to the floor for symbolic votes in the Republican Party...

Suggested Common Sense Resolution to Federal & MN Budget Impasse

This is a teaser intro for an article i wrote on Examiner.com " First of all, you may ask, who am I to even propose a solution to what all of my state and federal elected officials cannot figure out how to resolve...

Zimbabwe Crisis Talks Stall, Rumours of a Mole Surface

The world is waiting in anticipation after it was announced that the Zimbabwe talks had stalled and were taking a few days off.The official story running on the wire and other news services is that both sides are at an impasse over what position and powers Morgan Tsvangirai,...

Wanted: 'A $100,000 Anthem': CBC

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOur Canadian Anthem is gone, but not forgotten, an Anthem that can't be sung, for there are no words, but hyme'd universally by all Hockey Fans. An Anthem most Canadians...

Human Rights Watch Warns of Human Rights Disaster in Zimbabwe

The opposition party under Tsvangirai will not participate in a presidential runoff vote, said their spokesman on Thursday. Meanwhile president Mugabe and Tsvangirai both stated they would attend an emergency...

Feltman plays coy about US position on how to fill Lahoud's post

Why is the United States involved in another foreign election when in 2000 and 2004 Africans and many Latinos were illegally prevented from using their own constitutional right to cast a vote for the candidate of...

Le Journal de Quebec staff locked out

"Sun Media Corp. locked out 140 workers at Le Journal de Québec on Sunday. The lockout of editorial and office staff at the Quebec City newspaper took effect amid a negotiating impasse over working conditions. Luc Lavoie, a spokesman for Sun Media's parent company, Quebecor...

Scotland on Sunday

"THE ingredients most likely to spark confrontation between the United States and Iran could scarcely be simpler or more combustible: a tin filled with an explosive charge and a lump of copper is all that is needed to manufacture what the US military calls an Explosively...

Fiji's doublespeak battle for hearts and minds played out through press

Survivor Snafu?? - Last night (Sunday), during the Survivor Cook Islands Finale on CBS, Jeff Probst announced that the 14th season will be held in the Fijian Islands ... I wonder if they know what they are in for. This may really become a NEW type of "Survivor". Here, in this...

War and Peace in Sri Lanka

"Optimists believed that the Oslo talks, which were scheduled in the wake of the EU ban on the LTTE, would break the impasse between the two contesting parties viz. the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. However, those who were familiar with the tactics of the LTTE and the...

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