With surging prices and inflation putting the employees’ real income under severe stress, the absence of a word from the government on the fate of the 6th pay commission’s recommendations has caused concern to the mammoth officialdom. However the news is that there isn’t much to cheer for millions of central government employees, […]
Has Hugo Chavez turned Venezuela into a Country of Government Informers?
(Written June 4th 2008) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has recently used his decree powers (given to him by the National Assembly last year) to pass a law that will carry out some major and highly controversial changes in the Venezuelan intelligence services. The new law is called “The Law of the National Intelligence and […]
MAN IS BORN FREE BUT EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS
MAN IS BORN FREE BUT EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS Freedom is the birth right of man. Life is reduced to a meaningless drift towards an end if man does not enjoy freedom. Freedom of speech helps in the development of the personality of man, his ideologies are trimmed into a shape, his […]
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 […]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
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