Ash Carter, secretary of defense for the US, just made announcements yesterday about US sending more troops to Iraq in the coming days. The troops that will be sent to Iraq will have a job related more to advising the troops already present there. The presence of the new troops will serve as a shield […]
AMANDA KNOX and RAFFAELE SOLLECITO: AMERICA’S HYPOCRISY?
From Amanda’s blog (http://www.amandaknox.com/2014/02/02/1216/), February 2nd, 2014:
“It’s hard to even know what I’m up against, what could be motivating this verdict that’s so clearly wrong and unfounded.”
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Contrary to what many women believe, it’s fairly easy to develop a long-term, stable, intimate, and mutually fulfilling relationship with a guy. Of course this guy has to be a Labrador retriever. With human guys, it’s extremely difficult. This is because guys don’t really grasp what women mean by the term relationship. Let’s say a […]
Japan: Letter to Google about Street View
One year after its debut in the United States, Google’s Street View has arrived in Japan, where it is already drawing criticism. Despite the company’s generally positive image in this country, bulletin board threads [ja] and blogs [ja] are filled with comments questioning the way Google has rolled out its latest service. In the past […]
STEPHEN B. OMAOIS: In Memory of a GURU Gem
STEPHEN B. OMAOIS: In Memory of a GURU Gem (NOTE: When Stephen Omaois was murdered in cold-blood way back in 2004, the following article was written as my way of honoring him and his short-lived excellence in community journalism. The whole piece never saw print ever since the day it was written, out of […]