What if revolution is not what a revolution should look like, what if all the previous revolutions that occurred in the past -including the Arab spring revolution- were missing one crucial component or maybe they all made a common mistake and that is why the aftermath of most these revolutions were not as good as […]
“Into Darkness”: A Tableau for America’s Moral, Political, and Intellectual Floundering
By Sabin Geyman The movie “Star Trek: Into Darkness” is an exercise in disjointed storytelling, mind-numbing action, and occult symbology. I like a story that is going somewhere—but it doesn’t have to go light-years away, and it doesn’t have to linger in the darkness, to get my attention. The sci-fi genre has always been dubious […]
“The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History” by Mircea Eliade
Eliade is an excellent excerpter. Turning (arbitrarily) to page 79: The Vedic altar, to employ Paul Mus’ formula, is time materialized. "That fire-altar also is the Year, — the nights are its enclosing stones, and there are three hundred and sixty of these, because there are three hundred and sixty nights of the year; […]
The Tao of Saigon Horn: Part One
‘Rhino horn has the medicinal benefit of chewing your fingernails’. The phrase is meant to be off-putting, a layman’s interpretation of the results of scientific tests. It is a key statement being echoed in the West to discredit the medicinal use of rhino horn in Vietnam, but it doesn’t work. Instead demand for […]
Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly
Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly United Nations New York, New York 10:12 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great honor for me to be here today. I would like to talk to you about a subject that […]
Indian Vice President inaugurates International Conference at Leh
Leh/Srinagar, July 5 (Scoop News) –The Vice President of India . M. Hamid Ansari while addressing Scientists, Academicians and Scholars in a 3-day International Conference of “Geothermal and other Energy Resources of Ladakh; Technological and Business viability”at Leh,Ladakh fully supported the view that technology and human ingenuity would lead us to newer sources of […]