Kennedy: “The Last Thing This Country Needs Is Two Republican Parties”
Last year today was probably one of the best day in President Obama’s life, but today could not be more different. As if it isn’t enough to have to deal with the major humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake,but President Obama and the Democrats have now to cope with the political seismic […]
Obama Must Combine The Intellect Of MLK & The Fighting Spirit Of Ali
Today it is Martin Luther King’s day, and also almost the first year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration. Despite what was undoubtedly a promising start, the President and the Democrats are in trouble both domestically and on the foreign policy front. If the President and his Democratic majority do not change course, the Democrats could […]
Respecting our Differences to Reclaim our Common Ground
We are coming to the close of a decade, and hopefully the next one will not be under the same negative hospices of conflicts, irrational violence and turmoil. The most troubling event of the last decade was unquestionably the attack of 9/11/2001. The shock waves of this tragedy are still felt today worldwide, and have […]
France Will Compensate Nuclear Tests Victims
On Tuesday, the French parliament approved a long overdue bill offering compensation to the victims of controversial nuclear tests carried out by France for almost four decades, between 1960 and 1996. French authorities, across the political spectrum, had previously failed to accept responsibility for the numerous and serious health problems suffered by those present or […]
United States: The World’s Leading Jailer
The United States has a longstanding policy of mass incarceration. Recent statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistic (BJS), a branch of the US Department of Justice, showed that the US has more than 2.4 million people behind bars on any given day, and an incarceration rate of 754 per 100,000 residents. This is the […]
