Several names have been thrown in the pool of candidates for Egypt’s 2011 presidential elections; In September 2005 Ayman Nour of Al Ghad Party and No’man Goma’a of New Wafd Partynominated themselves against President Hosni Mubarak. Nour was charged with fraud and Goma’a was accused of insanity! Since 2000, Gamal Hosni Mubarak has the been groomed to be his father’s successor and some people wondered Why Not? Rumor has it that Omar Soliman, Chief […]
Obama Meets With Iraq’s al Maliki: Restates Bush’s 2010-2011 Timetable For Troop Withdrawals
The AP reported today that in a meeting with Iraq’s president, Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Obama reiterated the terms of the agreement reached in the last 100 days of the Bush Administration for American troop withdrawals beginning in August of next year. Although this agreement got little press with Americans diverted by the U.S. elections and […]
Euthanasia and the Value of Life
Euthanasia etymologically is made up of two Greek words “eu” denoting good and “thanatos” denoting death, literally meaning “an easy or a good death”1. The modern meaning is that of “mercy killing” first used in the sense in England in 1869. ‘Mercy killing’ or’ Euthanasia’ signifies the act of killing a person, for the sake […]
Israel’s fait accompli in Gaza
There are two completely different versions of what is currently happening in Gaza. In the Israeli and North American press, Hamas – ‘Islamic terrorists’ backed by Iran – have in an unprovoked attack fired deadly rockets on innocent Israel with the intent of destroying the Jewish state. North American politicians and the media say […]
Is India a science superpower?
On the radical disconnect between the dreams of becoming a science superpower and the grim reality of mind-numbing superstitions and life-threatening pseudo-sciences that pervade all levels of society. "The next century belongs to India, which will become a unique intellectual powerhouse… capturing all its glory which it had in millennia gone by," declared Dr. Raghunath […]
I Walked In The Shoes Of An Ex-Con
September is the month of the Yellow Ribbons, and over the weekend, the Yellow Ribbon Project set up shop at the main junction of Marina Square- an exhibition entitled "Crossroads". The Yellow Ribbon Project is an initiative that seeks to facilitate an ex-offender’s reintergration into mainstream society. Named after Irwin Levine’s song, it aspires to […]
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