Tag: world affairs
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July 12, 2008 06:35 PM EDT --
Is our world on a collision course with evil, traversing a road to the extinction of the human race?
One only needs to read the newspaper or turn . . .
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June 08, 2008 10:16 AM EDT --
This an edited article that I posted about a year ago. I think is still pertinent today.
For at least five years, I have had an uneasy feeling that events taking place in the world don't . . .
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October 29, 2009 03:58 PM EDT --
I have been seeing a lot of political type of articles here on gather lately. One recent one has made me think of the saying "What you don't know won't hurt you"... I thought of this because that is . . .
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August 10, 2006 06:49 AM EDT --
The Associated Press reports the U.S. government has raised the threat warning to red, the highest level, for commercial flights from Britain to the United States in response to a terror plot in London: . . .
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September 10, 2007 04:32 AM EDT --
On the morning before the twin towers were bombed, I awoke from a nightmare in a cold sweat, trembling, tears streaming down the sides of my face. In my dream, there was only ash mingled . . .
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January 25, 2008 08:48 PM EST --
Even though I'm not her Mom, I still want to know that she's safe.
"When I saw the New York Time s article about erupting violence and bloodshed in Kenya, I immediately thought . . .
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November 13, 2008 07:59 AM EST --
The Associated Press reported November 12 that India conducted a successful test of a medium-range, surface to surface missile that is allegedly nuclear capable.
The missile was reported to have a . . .
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November 13, 2008 08:08 AM EST --
The Associated Press reported November 12 that the lower house of Germany's parliament passed new anti-terror legislation that would allow spying on computers and wiretapping conversations by the . . .
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December 09, 2008 08:42 AM EST --
This analysis by Dr. George Friedman, founder of Strategic Forecasting, was published December 8. It is reprinted here with permission from STRATFOR .
By Dr. George Friedman
In an interview . . .
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November 13, 2008 10:27 AM EST --
The Middle East Times ran a "special report " November 12 saying that while some not-so-welcome endorsements for an Obama presidency came in after the November 4 presidential election, including . . .
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December 14, 2007 03:44 PM EST --
Do you support impeachment of Dick Cheney? Please visit Congressman Robert Wexler's new site, WexlerWantsHearings.com , to sign a petition calling for the Democratic leadership to take up the matter. . . .
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April 13, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
I will always give credit where it is due. I have major differences with President Obama but giving the order to use deadly force on the Somali pirates was not only the correct thing to do, but . . .
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August 29, 2007 01:40 AM EDT --
Why do we hide from the truth,
And then scream, you lied to me?
Why do we point at injustice, but not our own?
A few with so much power . . .
Not the world leaders,
But the world press.
The truth . . .
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October 27, 2008 09:08 PM EDT --
Much has been written about the demise of the nation state in the age of globalization. Nonstate actors have gained more and more influence, and states are no longer able to control what flows across . . .
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November 13, 2008 08:02 PM EST --
The training of the Afghan Army is critical to long-term stability in a country torn by decades of war. But I'm concerned that we are placing too much emphasis on numbers and not enough on the technical . . .
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November 14, 2008 02:17 PM EST --
AFP reported November 14 that all British military forces would be out of Iraq by the end of 2009. The report cited Iraqi national security advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie as its source.
The Brits maintain . . .
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August 30, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
The Hill reported yesterday that the liberal group MoveOn.org was undertaking an advertising campaign against Democratic Congressman Brian Baird of Washington because his recent trip to Iraq had changed . . .
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November 01, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
After watching the news today, I thought I'd take a moment to talk about the recent jury award of nearly $11 million to the parents of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder. Corporal Snyder was . . .
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March 10, 2009 03:33 PM EDT --
"If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth: and there be . . .
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October 20, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
The Wall Street Journal reported October 20 that the long-debated U.S. - Iraq security agreement being negotiated between the Bush administration and the Maliki government was being sent to Iraq's . . .
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