Is there a monumental difference between an ambitious female who wants to achieve her dreams from the ambitious man who strives to do the same – or – is it that women are oppressed into cutting down their emotional wants; trained to be heartless; numb and obedient, something like machines created to cook. Are females […]
Massacre Sparks Terror Fears in Azerbaijan
Unexplained shooting of 13 people in Baku feeds speculation about foreign ”terrorist” plots aimed at undermining stability. By Boyukaga Agayev in Baku (CRS No. 492, 8-May-09) A multiple shooting at the state oil academy in Baku has caused shockwaves in Azerbaijan, prompting student protests and fuelling speculation about possible extremist motives. The assassin, an ethnic […]
Burn the red carpet
On Monday lunchtime I landed at Harare Airport and the South African Airways pilot made an announcement saying that passengers should remain in their seats so that the Korean (North) delegation could leave the plane first. There was a whole lot of rumbling in response to this from passengers up and down the aircraft. Then […]
Identiy and Violence
Amartya Sen’s book, “Identity and Violence’ examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key trait — our ethnicity, or religion, for example — to the exclusion of all others. Sen argues that we can combat this tendency by rejecting this narrowly defined, limited sense of identity, and embracing a […]
No Taliban in Kashmir,only rumors spread by National Conference :PDP
Ganderbal April 11 – Senior Vice President Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari on Saturday said while addressing a workers convention in Ganderbal in North Kashmir,that National Conference (NC) was engineering an election boycott in the state by spreading the rumors of infiltration of Taliban in Kashmir. “ Actually they are afraid […]
The Border War: An Arizonan’s Perspective
As an "almost native" long term Arizonan who is now in political exile in large part due to the illegal immigration situation and border wars going on now in my former home state, I cannot begin to express the outrage and betrayal I felt on behalf of myself and my fellow Arizonans who have thus […]
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