Two Dead After Calexico Quake Jolts Southern California
Updated at 7:48 pm (Pacific Time). The Mexican government has confirmed two people dead after a 7.2 magnitude quake shook northern Mexico and the southern part of California on Easter Sunday. One of the deaths was caused by a collapsed home in Mexicali. The local Red Cross in Mexicali has reported that at least 50 […]
South Africa: Will Killing of White Supremacist Trigger Racial Violence?
As South Africa gets ready to host the World Cup, the killing of far-right white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, could not come at a worse time. Today, President Zuma called for calm after Terreblanche was found hacked to death by machete on his farm in the country’s Northwest. The 69-year-old leader of the white supremacist […]
The End of Days? So Many Antichrists, So Little Time
The veracity of end times prophecy has been claimed, asserted, challenged and disproved repeatedly, yet we still choose to wallow in those very same stone-age superstitions of beasts and demons when shocked by the harsh realities of what we, as humans, perpetrate. The Antichrist is nothing more than a bogeyman for grown-ups. He’s the monster under the bed and the villain in the closet. He is the Kaiser Soze of the irrational and the biggest and scariest of the imaginary things that go bump in the night.
Russia: Will Moscow Bombings Be Used To Crack Down On Human Rights?
Yesterday, one of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Moscow on March 29 was identified as Jennet Abdurakhmanova. She was 17-years old, and the widow of the leader of a Dagestan separatist and Islamic group, Umalat Magomedov. According to Dagestan’s police investigators, Jennet became involved in terrorist activities after she developed an intimate […]