There is a view of the modern American GI shaped by Hollywood and television news: trigger-happy, brutalized, unreflective. Then there is the reality – of thousands of young men and women, each an individual character with their own motivations and fears, growing up extraordinarily fast and often able to perceive their situation with searing clarity. […]
India invites Western observers to nuclear site war games
India will invite Western observers and diplomats to a major war games exercise next month, officials said on Thursday. The exercise involving land forces, armour and the air force will begin on March 19 at Pokhran in the western desert state of Rajasthan where India conducted a series of nuclear weapons tests in 1998 that […]
Serbia: President Tadic Gets Re-Elected
By Veronica Khokhlova Below is a selection of Anglophone bloggers’ views on the outcome of Serbia’s presidential election. Eric Gordy of East Ethnia began his analytical piece for OpenDemocracy.net with this summary: The inconclusive result in in the first round of Serbia’s presidential election on 20 January 2008 led to a second round on Sunday […]
Bananas in Singles for Sale: Hooray to the American Consumers
Without a doubt, the banana is one of the most popular fruits in the world. And next to milk, it is considered to be the most complete food when it comes to providing our bodies with the needed energy and in preventing a substantial number of illnesses. It is not fattening and has no cholesterol. […]
Parables – Original of
Parables – Original of The word “Parables” in the Bible is often used mistakenly in our daily life from the original intention with a heavenly meaning. In order to understand what Jesus meant by the term ‘Parables’, we need to trace back the word to its original places in both the Old Testament and […]
Katie Couric Interviews Candidates on Campaign Disillusions
This interview conducted by Katie Couric is for the latest installment of “Primary Questions: Character, Leadership & The Candidates.” She asks this question to John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain. Katie Couric asked: “What is the most disillusioning part of running for president?” US Democratic hopeful […]
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