Visitors: 277Dr Gary G Kohls, MD [themify_quote] *“Perhaps there is no more fitting tribute…to all wars everywhere – than the closing chapters of Johnny Got His Gun. Published on September 3, 1939, two days after the start of WWII. Dalton Trumbo’s novel was about a World War I veteran whose four limbs, face and genitals […]
Visitors: 4,416Christopher Caldwell Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. A graduate of Harvard College, his essays, columns, and reviews appear in the Claremont Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, the Spectator (London), Financial Times, and numerous other publications. He […]
Visitors: 597Anthony J. Marsella Ph.D. [themify_quote]More than Nations . . .[/themify_quote] Contrary to the widespread myth, nations are not the sole source of massive international political, economic, and social international events, forces, and changes. It is true the story of history is often told with nations as the grand hand behind unfolding events. Reality, however, […]
Visitors: 468Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Visitors: 48612 April 2017, PEN International welcomes today’s acquittal of all defendants in the OdaTV case and calls on the Turkish authorities to immediately release all those held in prison for exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and to end the prosecutions and detention of journalists simply on the basis of the […]
Visitors: 458[themify_quote] The defense of those using their conscience to uphold humanitarian international law. The Association of World Citizens calls for the re-affirmation of humanitarian international law. It is a call to the soldiers and militia members in armed conflicts to refuse orders to violate humanitarian international law by refusing to use weapons outlawed by […]
Visitors: 534[themify_quote]13 – 14 September 2017 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea[/themify_quote] The heart of the tuna industry will be bustling again come September 13-14 this year with the largest tuna convention of the Pacific set to take stage in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This year, the 6th Pacific Tuna Forum which will take place […]
Visitors: 353[themify_quote] International Conference in the run up to the Italian Summit on the Western Balkans in cooperation with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Centre International de Formation Europèènne- IAI International Affairs Institute-CFA -OFZ [/themify_quote] Rome, 5 April 2017 Background and Objectives In 2014, in the wake of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First […]
Visitors: 1,026(RPI) Thursday’s US missile attack on Syria must represent the quickest foreign policy U-turn in history. Less than a week after the White House gave Assad permission to stay on as president of his own country, President Trump decided that the US had to attack Syria and demand Assad’s ouster after a chemical attack […]
Visitors: 493[themify_quote] “Are there not such spirits among us ready to join in the noblest of all adventures— the building up of a civilization —so that the human might reflect the divine order? In the divine order there is both freedom and solidarity. It is the virtue of the soul to be free and its nature […]
Visitors: 451Dr Moin Qazi [themify_quote]“The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but […]
Visitors: 455Amb. Sergio Duarte 10 Apr 2017 – The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. This unprecedented initiative resulted from a proposal by South Africa, Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico and Nigeria and […]
Visitors: 539(RPI) House and Senate Republican leaders McConnell and Ryan are praising President Trump’s missile strike on Syria last week in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on civilians, while when President Obama proposed the same thing in 2013 they strongly opposed the plan. Meanwhile, the mainstream media and even many “progressives” are turning pro-Trump […]
Visitors: 484Ajay Ghosh “It’s very great joy that I want to invite you all to come and be part of the 35th annual American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Convention 2017 to be held at the brand new state of the art Convention Centre, at the prestigious Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, New […]
Visitors: 498New Delhi, 09th April 2017 Khudai Khidmatgar, a social organisation organised a condolence meeting and a candle vigil in front of Gandhi Samadhi, Rajghat, New Delhi, for the brutal killing of 55 year old muslim man Pehlu Khan, who was transporting cattle has died after being beaten by a mob of about 200 cow protection vigilantes in […]
Visitors: 566 This has reference to the news items that the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will arrive in New Delhi today on a four-day visit. It is widely expected that he will advocate for, among other things, increased coal and Uranium export from Australia to India. The issue of coal export to India gains significance […]
Visitors: 461North East Institute of Social Science and Research (NEISSR) commemorated the World Health Day on 7th April, 2017 on the theme “Depression- let’s talk” .The programme was conducted to signify the importance of health which is not only the absence of disease but a state of complete physical, mental and social being and understand […]
Visitors: 563[themify_quote]The U.S. does not have to choose between backing the Assad regime or extremist groups. There is another choice: Syria’s homegrown pro-democracy resistance.[/themify_quote] After the release of horrifying images of Syrian civilians killed by chemical attacks on Tuesday, there were predictable demands that the United States should “take action” against the regime of Bashar […]
Visitors: 464Ibrahim Al-Marashi (Al Jazeera) [themify_quote]It’s not the first time a US president launches missile strikes that do not amount to much but boost ratings.[/themify_quote] 8 Apr 2017 – The United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a government-controlled Syrian air force base in the Homs province, purportedly where the nerve agent sarin was loaded […]
Visitors: 596[themify_quote]A Consumer Fraud Lawyer’s mini Primer[/themify_quote] The U.S./NATO line 5 Feb 2017 If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and by […]
Visitors: 525Rochard Falk In early morning darkness on April 7th the United States fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian al-Shayrat Airfield from two American destroyers stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean. It described the targets as Syrian fighter jets, radar, fuel facilities used for the aircraft. It asserted prior notification of Russian authorities, and […]
Visitors: 493 A rush to judgement? A one-off attack? Or maybe the start of a major military offensive in Syria? Scholars, analysts and journalists offer their opinions on the Trump administration’s decision to attack the Syrian military on Friday [7 Apr 2017]. Rick Sterling, investigative journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement “The attack […]