(Originally posted at the Daily Censored for Project Censored). Listen to Fox News and the screaming right-wing, and you might think the screaming left-wing were a bunch of lazy, unemployed drumbeating freeloaders that are pitching tents in public spaces and defecating on the streets. However, you don’t need to go to Fox News for such […]
Ban Ki-moon Should Reject the Report of the Panel on Sri Lanka and Restore Confidence in the UN
An analysis of notices published by the UN Panel of Experts (POE) calling for submissions and email correspondence this writer has had with the Panel show that the Panel has effectively denied the citizens of Sri Lanka an opportunity to be heard by the Panel. The POE has surreptitiously given more time for detractors of […]
In Gitmo Opinion, Two Versions of Reality
This story was co-published with The National Law Journal and ProPublica. When Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ordered the release of a Guantánamo Bay detainee last spring, the case appeared to be a routine setback for an Obama administration that has lost a string of such cases. But there turns out to be nothing ordinary about the […]
old virgin grandma’s plight
In some African Traditions, it is believed that any girl whose virginity is lost before marriage is considered a disgrace to her family and thus no man wills to ask for her hand in marriage. Such girls eventually end up in frustration and total melancholic isolation because even their very own parents regard them as some […]
HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY – 2
HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY Aristotle may well be deemed the founder of this as of so many other sciences, though by him it is not distinguished from general biology, which is itself part of physics, or the study of nature. His treatise peri psyches ("De Anima") was during two thousand years virtually the universal textbook of […]
Latin American Neo-Populists: Or how I learned that Populism is nothing but Rhetorical Poppycock
Latin America has tragically been under the spell of populist governments through out its tumultuous history. There seems to always be an important neglected sector of the population that will always fall for the belief that someone will hold a messianic solution to their problems. Not that they are completely to be blamed because many […]