Why There is Danger in Ignoring Racism in America

On a cold, winter morning in February 2007, in Springfield, Illinois, in the land of Abraham Lincoln, then Senator Barack Hussein Obama Jr. announced his intent to run for the office of President of the United...

Church 'mortified' by Berlusconi

" The Roman Catholic Church has expressed "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. In some of the strongest Church criticism to date, the newspaper...

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush

"With gold prices skyrocketing, the Mayans of Guatemala find themselves caught up in a new rush for the precious metal.   Tema sits across from me, a Mayan with a mission. We are in the town of Sipacapa in the Western Highlands of...

Archbishop attacks growing debt culture

Like in the US, the British have become additcted to borrowing. Today the utspoken and controversial leader of the Anglican church decried the creation of a debt culture that encourages people to spend what they don't have even in times of prosperity."Archbishop of Canterbury...

Architects aren't ready for an urbanized planet

"EW DELHI: The world is racing to the city, and the one group of professionals capable of housing and sheltering the massive human influx to the urban centers - the architects and the planners - freely acknowledge that they are ill-equipped to cope. This summer, the number of...

Wolfowitz at the World Bank: The President Who Just Wouldn't Go

The New York Times describes in an article that things are pretty much boiling over at the World Bank.Apparently, board members' frustration with Wolfowitz's stance on governance and double standards, plus the attempt to force a neocon agenda upon the bank have even angered...

Who Will Kill The Pope In Istanbul?

"The novel is about a conspiracy to kill the pope involving the ultra-conservative Roman Catholic society Opus Dei, the notorious P-2 Masonic lodge and U.S. intelligence services to prepare the ground for a U.S. attack on Iran. The cover of the book, sub-titled Who will...

The Brangelina Effect

"I don’t know about you, but looking at Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their son Maddox caught by paparazzi travelling in a rickshaw in Monday’s papers left me with a distinct sense of unease. You just...

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