Nobody can tell how Paul Wolfowitz felt when he stepped down as president of the World Bank. Perhaps, some critics inside the World Bank are overjoyed that he had finally succumbed to pressures. As gleaned, Mr. Wolfowitz did his best to resist these pressures but trying to atone for his misdeeds, but to no avail. Of course, the culprits […]
East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]
Fooling fools in cyberspace
“Shit!" That’s my reaction today after I opened my e-mail inbox at yahoo. Sometimes, you just can’t help it as what I did. But there are occasions when you just couldn’t’t hold back your fuse from being busted. In short, I was bombed at a certain point when some people think that you’re really […]
China’s murky legal system easing up
For many decades now, the People’s Republic of China is notorious when it comes to human rights violations and tortures. In most cases, complaints for these human rights abuses have reportedly not been addressed properly in accordance with the accepted norms set by the United Nations. International political analysts viewed these abuses, normally perpetrated by […]
Another Round of Flooding
Well it looks like we had another round of heavy rain in Red Oak, Iowa. The flooding about two weeks ago was no comparison to what is going on now. The Nishnabotna River has completely came out of it’s banks and covered parts of Highway 34. The river also covered part of a small town […]
Anti-dumping tariffs hurt the economy
Many countries, particularly the developing world, have expressed gratitude when the proper mechanisms for the launching of trade liberalization measures were put into effect. In some aspects, these measures were proven to have helped a great deal in effecting changes in the way trade barriers were addressed. In fact, the establishment of the Uruguay Round for […]