By Farshid Alyan When Turkish reporters asked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently what impact international sanctions were having on Iran, he replied, “What sanctions are you talking about? If you come to Iran today, people will tell you that sanctions have had no impact on their lives or on their country’s development.” Yet even to […]
Impasse Stalls Nepal’s New Government
Starting his job at the office PM Madhav Kumar Nepal came up with rather an optimistic note calling for the politics of consensus and cooperation for the way ahead at this difficult time, yet the terms being clichéd abounding in the contemporary politics of the country. But the alliance already seems to be in snag, […]
China: A leaking dam?
Chinese information activists have been testing and collecting information about the government sponsored filter software, “Green Dam Youth Escort” via blog posts, twitter (search #greendam) and collaborative platforms since the WSJ’s news about Beijing government required PC makers to install filter software for all the PCs shipped to China from July 1 2009 onward popped […]
Op-Ed: Is Microwave Exposure Harming Millions?
A Change Has Got To Come by Angela Flynn 12/08 angelaflynn80@msn.com I recently read Blue Windows by Barbara Wilson. Barbara was raised as a Christian Scientist. Christian Scientists are admonished to look out of only rose-colored windows because evil and sickness do not exist. Everything is perfection. Her mother ended up getting breast cancer and […]
Nine British Soldiers Charged After Bar Brawl in Cyprus
Nine British soldiers have been charged following a bar brawl in the Cyprus town of Ayia Napa on Friday. The men had been celebrating what is known as "millionaire’s weekend" – they had received their last pay packet before their tour of duty on the island was due to come to an end next month. […]
Philosophy of Self-awareness
Knowing one’s self is knowing oneself and knowing oneself is delving deep into one’s self. But that depth is so elusive and far-fetching to our cognitive selves that we feel like getting lost into its deceptive subtleties. Deceptive and subtle it is, we are drawn and drowned into that depth as if our élan vital […]