120 Articles

Saturday, August 30, 2008
The 3 Mistakes of My Life by ChetanBhagat
(1 comments) The article reviews why Chetan Bhagat's recent book represents yearnings of younger Indians who feel held hostage to politics of historical India--even as many do their best to move on and build their own dreams. In this story of love, cricket and business, Bhagat ties the tales of popular culture to the horrific riots of Gujarat and the great earthquake of the early part of this decade.

Sunday, August 24, 2008
INTERNET BUZZ IS AS HIGH AS EVER ON "IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY" AS 2008 ELECTION DRAWS TO A CLOSE
(7 comments) Even though media wonks and the Democratic Party leadership haven't got it yet, media consumers and internet users are JUST as interested as ever in seeing an impeachment of both George W. Bush and Richard (Dick) Cheney for crimes against the constitution and abuse of power. Both YAHOO and GOOGLE SEARCH engines are showing as high (or higher) a number of hits on the topic of impeachment as they have throughout 2008

Sunday, August 24, 2008
Kuwait Expects to Deport over 800,000 Immigrants
It sounds like at least 4 nations will suddenly have to find jobs for nearly a million people in the next year-otherwise Kuwait will not only be exporting oil, but unemployed peoples as well in 2009 and 2010.

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Ashes to Memory or Commemoration
As America gets older, it is called to deal with a national issue that involves local communities, individuals and families. More and more Americans--for a variety of reasons--are choosing cremation over buriel. How do americans remember and commemorate their parents? How do parents and others want to be commemorated? How little or how much? America currently has too many rules and laws on this matter,leaving uncertainty

Monday, August 4, 2008
THIS IS WHAT 40 YEARS OF POORLY THOUGHT OUT CAPITALISM HAS TO OFFER DOWN-and-OUT AMERICA in 2008: An Oklahoma County w
(1 comments) What are state, regional and county planners thinking? One tiny Oklahoma County suddenly has 14 casinos--and most are run by Indian tribes. Is this the economic development we are offering coming generations, i.e. in lieu of good planned economic growth and social responsibility for our offspring?

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Amritsar Massacre, Memory, misguided religious Nationalism, and recent Homicides in India
This article summarizes the various levels of violence faced by people in India and from India around the world during this third millennium. The author does this by reviewing the linkages between religious attitudes and practices concerning protest, witnessing and violence. He takes a pilgrimage to look at the site of the Amritsar massacre, through India, on to Afghanistan and back to the USA.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
When are India and its villages going to unite?
(4 comments) Even though India is officially a federal state, it has had a centralized mentality since J. Nehru took over in 1948. This has slowed development in many rural areas. This article focuses on health care and empowerment of the local communities in India today

Monday, July 7, 2008
ISN'T THE BEIJING OLYMPICS OUR PARTY, TOO? SHOULDN'T WE SPEAK OUT?--A View from India
(4 comments) India, the USA and countries from around the globe are sending athletes to the Olympics in Beijing in September. Due to the trajedies of earthquakes, pressure has been put off China to some degree, but some student groups and others are asking that athletes, their trainers and families in China at the olympics speak out. Here is a summary of the view from India and some suggestions for Americans.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Mugabe or Bush? Who should leave rather than lead?
(2 comments) When a main stream writer like Thomas L. Freedman begins to call for the immediate end of the Bush administration in June 2008, the world's press picks it up. It is time for all Americans to really see that Bush goes into exile soon.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Ghandi-Like Protest in India--How about in the USA?
(2 comments) This article looks at the legal system in India and asks how Gandhi-like protesters are treated there. Is it any different than in the USA?

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Editor of Kuwait Times on Press Censorship
On June 10, Jamie Etheridge, the Texas-born managing editor of the KUWAIT TIMES, one of Kuwaits 3 major English daily newspapers, led a diwaniya at the AWARE CENTER where she focused on censorship in the Kuwaiti press. Etheridge, who arrived in Kuwait from Texas in 2004, also writes for STRATFOR and the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. She discusses the three main issues related to censorship in Kuwait.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
U.S. Indebtedness is Rising by over $1 Trillion a Year
(1 comments) This article responds to Kotlicoff, Laurence's "The Emperors Dangerous Clothes", published in Stiegletz's ECONOMIC VOICE. In the piece Kotlicoff shares how carried away not only the media has become in using manipulated neo-con and neo-liberal narrations to tell America's story of the past half century. The world of academia, Kotlicoff notes, has also gone astray. This is why accountants at worldcom, enron, and elsewhere

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
PERHAPS THE LARGEST WAR PROFITEERING IN ALL HISTORY: U.S. Spending in Iraq since 2003
The BBC finally jumps on the bandwagon and reports for the first time that it has collected enough British and U.S. government reports to claim that over $23 billion dollars have disappeared in Iraq since 2003. At the same time Brits and many in the British government are interested in beginning to call troops home. Will the USA join them in cooperation for such withdrawal?

Saturday, June 7, 2008
NEWS AND WARNINGS: Westerners Seek Jobs in Gulf to Beat High Living Costs
(3 comments) As many Americans, including many who have lost jobs in the current recession and many who have served in foreign wars, come looking for money and work in the Middle East, the author seeks to share stories of warning about working in the Gulf States--where crony and family capitalism dominate one's freedom, work life, and choices.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Some Parents of Vets Coming Home From Iraq & Afghanistan Forced to Give Up Retirement To Care For THeir Brave Offspring
(3 comments) As a lifelong progressive for peace (with great leanings towards non-violent action rather than war to solve conflict issues), I have been concerned for decades as to how one-sided or biased both the American family and its educational communities-not to mention the media-have been in brazenly glorifying America's military power platforms for pressurizing less blessed nations around the globe. My concern has turned to dismay

Saturday, May 17, 2008
BLAMING IT ALL ON PARLIAMENT or DEMOCRACY
(1 comments) Recently, the International Herald Tribune (May 6, 2008), published on its front page a story by Robert F. Worth entitled, "Democracy Becomes the Fall Guy in Kuwait". Since on 17th of May, Kuwaiti voters are participating in national parliamentary elections, it is certainly an appropriate time to analyze Kuwait Democracy and how it is performing at this junction in history.

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Kuwait Marks 45th Anniversary as UN Member by Trying to Deport Bangladeshi Workers and by Harassing only Ex-Pats going o
(1 comments) On May 1, the International Day of Labor, Bangladeshi laborers who had not been paid in many months held a second strike for non-payment of salaries for the fact that their employer had allowed their Kuwaiti visa to expire without renewal. This means that without wanting to be so, hundreds are currently illegal in Kuwait. Many local news agencies noted the plight of these laborers. I also published the story.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Uranium and Lead Kuwaiti's Sand Heads for Idaho
(1 comments) Over the past two weeks, for the first time, news was shared in Kuwait that sand that has been contaminated since the 1991 U.S. Coalition War in Kuwait has now been shipped to U.S. soil and is currently heading to Idaho. The sand's contamination resulted from U.S. military vehicles and munitions combining in a combustive accident at the end of that war. The shipment was undertaken somewhat in stealth

Thursday, May 15, 2008
AMERICAN & BRITISH COLLAGE dating from 1978 to 2008: MEET THE CLASH, LISTEN TO THE VIDEO AND READ THE FACTS, JACK
(1 comments) A lot of nostalgic Americans etc are called to attention by usage of phrases and metaphors form oldy music memories, like in the title of the recent OP-Ed article, MY, MY, IT'S AMERICAN PIE: A Mother's Day Celebration. I think, as an educator, that it is important to introduce other connections to music,video and memory in a way that reaches out to more and more Americans of many ages. Here is a musical and video collage.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
A LONG-TERM APPROACH TO BEING A COUNTER-CULTURAL WITNESS, i.e. NOT CONSTANTLY IN A CULTURE WAR
(2 comments) In her article, "Loving the Storm-Drenched", Mathewes-Green writes to a largely Christian audience who is not enamored with the era of culture warring that we witness around today. has to do with good common sense for progressive audiences of all shapes and backgrounds, too. She states that the tone which "we adopt from the culture: sarcastic, smart-alecky, jabbing, and self-righteous."

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Zainab Al-Suwaij Speaks at the AWARE CENTER on "A Special Model for Muslim Women in a Modern Society"
(2 comments) Speaking on the topic, "A Special Model for Muslim Women in a Modern Society", Zainab Al-Suwaij visited both Kuwait University and the Aware Center Kuwait this first week of May, i.e. just 10-days prior to national elections, when Kuwaiti women are hopeful of gaining their first seats in parliament. At the AWARE CENTER, Al-Suwaij was introduced as co-founder and executive director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
US & UK Collage: 1978 to 2008:
I desire to share two videos and collection of music wrapped in collage about Pax- Americana and Pax-Britannia dating from 1978 through 2008 As you Americans and British go through the 6th year of war in Iraq and the 8th year of the so-called War on Terrorism, it is fascinating to note that "If I Were A Terrorist: A James Pence Video!", , is now one of the most popular and most controversial videos in America's heartland,

Sunday, May 11, 2008
FRANCE IS ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION: IT IS UP TO THE WORLD TO PUT PRESSURE ON CHINA TO GET IN LINE TO SUPPORT BURMESE VI
(1 comments) This is a piece which begs the question--how does the world want to define important terms, like "sovereignty in intra-state relations" in a century that has already witnessed many attacks on formerly cherished ideas, like "just war theory", i.e. concept of preemptive war, human rights, and torture. The case of whether to send aid into Burma despite the bad military regime there provides the starting point for the desired dis

Thursday, May 8, 2008
"Kuwaitis, US Troops in Road Rage" Reports Arab Times' Front Page
(1 comments) alienation? shellshocked? What are the excuses for violent behaviors in the Gulf? This editorial contrasts the jusxtapositioning of two articles in a Kuwaiti newspaper. The first talks about a Kuwaiti who became a suicide bomber in Iraq. The other looks at arrogance on the highways and the legal system in Kuwait but focuses more on US soldier arrogance in the gulf

Monday, May 5, 2008
KUWAITI KALEIDESCOPE: May Day 2008, Elections, and other Insights
(5 comments) This is an editorialized summary of the news from around May Day 2008 at the nexus of where Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf meet--namely Kuwait. The review begins with a report on the labor situation in Kuwait. Then it turns to national elections which are due on May 17. It looks especially at younger voters and critical trends in editorializing and predicting what will happy next in this MAD MAD World.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
TRANSLATION PROBLEMS SERVE AMERICA POORLY ABROAD, ESPECIALLY in WAR ZONES-WHY ISN'T the GOVERNMENT PUMPING BILLIONS into
(2 comments) America of the last half of the 20th century has ignored its growing deficit in language skills--from foreign language skills to emotional intelligence to translation skills. This has encouraged great wastage of resources. Spin is not enough. America needs a play to overcome its overall deficits in markets from China to the Middle East.It needs to stop wasting money and support Foreign language in schools & university

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The Almontaser Case & the Fact that Many in Education Have to Fall on their Sword or Take Dives for Bad Leadership
Educators are sometimes offered as victims by administrator to politicians and bigwigs in any community in America and around the world. Times of war make it particularly hard on educators. The author looks first at the Almontaser case at the Khalhil gibran school in NYC in 2007-2008 and contrasts it to his own experience in Kansas teaching during the first Gulf War, 1990-1991. See role this plays inUSAforeign language

Friday, April 25, 2008
DEAR PROGRESSIVES, Should I Change my Name to "GENERAL" in Order to Be Elected President???
(3 comments) That is, I am running for President of the United States (and several other offices, like Senator from Kansas) on-line. The experiment is to see how many votes I can receive without spending a dime (or penny). I will simply push the envelope. Should I change my first name to GENERAL so I can get hired by CNN or Fox news in order to give the progressive view?

Sunday, April 20, 2008
From Kuwait Elections for Parliament to American primaries-a Landscape of News, Self-Censorship, Non-sense, and the Outr
OK, Kuwait does have some official censorship, so it therefore should be the case that the USA news is better. Right? Wrong! Here is an example of how the media in a censored land outshines nearly 85% of American press in monitoring news, human rights, government, etc. This is why blogging is great--but possibly enough. That is why the US media needs to be forced by average Jo and Joe America to do much better.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
TRIBE, TRIBALISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE-KUWAIT 2008
On April 1, 2008 the AWARE Center in Surra, Kuwait hosted a "diwaniya" (i.e. a meeting) which focused on the evolving tribal system in Kuwait and its current impact on Kuwaiti society. The presenter that evening was anthropologist Dr. Mohammed Al-Haddad of Kuwait University, who has published extensively on the phenomena of tribalism for many decades. The presentation and subsequent discussion was considered fairly timely

Friday, April 11, 2008
ARE MUSLIM RETALIATIONS EVER JUSTIFIED!? And are Muslims Oversensitive?
(8 comments) The AWARE CENTER focuses on providing a forum for Westerners and Arabs to get together face-to-face, and on this evening, March 27, 2008 there was great interest in this topic--as reflected by the wide-range of nationalities at the diwaniya (or meeting in Arabic) that evening. On this evening, there were audience- and participant members from many countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America & representing many diffe

Thursday, April 3, 2008
A Friend of Kuwait-who could have died--writes on Tribes, families, raising children and violence against foreigners
(2 comments) This letter was provided to ALONE by a passenger on a bus in Kuwait who was almost killed on the night of 2 April 2008. ALONE notes that he was likely contacted to share this letter because he had presented a lecture on Safety in Kuwait some months ago. The letter raises issues of tribal practices in Kuwait and endangerment of unempowered Kuwaitis in a system of mafia-like godfather groupings in the Gulf State.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
OBVIOUS REASONS that Kansans Need to Sack Republican Senator Pat Roberts in 2008
(2 comments) This article is a summary of why Kansas could set the tone by changing its longterm support for Republican Senators, like Pat Roberts, who supported the War in Iraq blindly and with a big wink to the facts. They have also helped cover up investigations of the administration in Ethics committees. The article is an appeal by the online candidate to throw the bums out in 2008--starting in Kansas

Saturday, March 22, 2008
The late Clair Patterson, Dr. James Hansen and the Need for more Scientific Heroes across the Globe
In the 20th Century one scientist was a bigger hero than most. He was Dr. Clair Patterson and against university leaders and against oil companies. He led the campaign to take lead out of our gasoline and stop poisoning our atmosphere. Now, in the 21st Century, we need many more scientists like him (from China to the USA to India)to stand up to their benefactors and leaders and get global warming under control and pronto.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
WHO can be AGAINST SUCH a WITHDRAWAL PLAN for IRAQ?
Here is a plan that could be implemented tomorrow. Call your congressmen, send them e-mails--and impeach them if they let the President or Vice-President stop America from getting out of the war. Such a move could only help the U.S. economy anyways--along with saving a lot of lives, eh?

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
WINTER SOLDIER BLACKOUT CONTINUES: Look in the Mirror America!!!!!
(22 comments) Well, America, I plead with you to spend at least one hour watching some of the hour-long recordings of those presentations. Go on the web and get hooked on to the biggest news story of 2008 and the most important stories of the past decade-the real stories of our new heroes, WINTER SOLDIERS 2008. Penny Coleman says, "If America listens to what they say, the war would be over tomorrow."

Monday, March 17, 2008
Even as Kuwait and Gulf Region face the 3rd driest winter in over 50 years, Kuwait will invest $77billion dollars or mor
This article introduces the phenomena of a $77 billion dollar investment project on the Iraqi border by Kuwaiti Investors an government. It would seem on the surface a fairly risky move--with global warming, war in Iraq, potential war with Iran all possibly affecting this humongous investment. The project would take place south of where the Euphrates enters the Persian Gulf. Why is there such a gambit now in 2008?

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION AND SHARING on WOMEN FROM AROUND THE WORLD AS "HEROES" THIS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WEEKEND
(8 comments) This article suggests how churches and mosques in the Middle East can look at International womens day. Education of children to the options for women is very important, i.e. widening choices

Friday, March 7, 2008
HOW DID IT USED TO BE IN AMERICA 30 YEARS AGO, Grandpa??? Marking 30 Years of Radical Rightwing Islamic movements in the
(8 comments) Since the 1970s, a sort-of counterrevolutionary narration of history has been pushed by popular main stream media. It is a conservative narration that posits that Ronald Reagan revived a positive place for America--a vision for the 21st century its proponents claim. This on-line candidate for U.S. Senat in Kansas begs to differ. There were actually some positive events between 1975 and 1979 that young Americans need to know

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
RECORD HIGHS onYAHOO at 8,250,000 hits-i.e. IMPEACH BUSH CHENEY (IT'S UP ON GOOGLE again, TOO)
(1 comments) At 9:45pm Iraq Time, I checked YAHOO to gain a pulse on how the buzz on the internet is currently on about "IMPEACH BUSH CHENEY" this March 3, 2008, i.e. as the U.S. faces its most expensive single-theater war in history for the 5th straight year. YAHOO registered 8,250,000 hits. This is an increase of nearly 3,800,000 hits in 3 months time on YAHOO.

Friday, February 29, 2008
KUWAIT INDEPENDENCE DAY, KUWAIT NATIONAL DAY, &THE RISE OF A NEW FACELESS POVERTY ON THE MIDDLE EASTERN LANDSCAPE
This article begins by reviewing the sociological concepts of relatve poverty and absolute poverty. It looks at work by sociologist Dr. Mark Olson in Kuwait. Olson has posed a new sociological construct to study and analyze poverty, i.e. to classify poverty. This article then turns to what is special about the construct and how it is helpful for understanding the rise of "faceless poverty" on a global scale in the USA etc.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
SAFETY and LIVING in KUWAIT, i.e. PROXEMICS & LIVING NEXT to the CIVIL WAR in IRAQ
Report of intital research as to how safe the three million residents of Kuwait feel. In the 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan attempted to strike fear into Americans hearts by noting that the wars in Central America were only a day's drive from Texas. In contrast Kuwait with thousands of Americans and 2 million expatriates from around the globe is both situated only miles from the Civil War in Iraq--yet people feel safe

Sunday, February 24, 2008
FOREIGN POLICY QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT ANSWERED BY A COGNITIVIST-NOT A NEO-CON, A NEO-LIBERAL, NOR EXTREME RIGH
As far as I can tell no candidate has answered all of the foreign policy questions posed by the International Herald Tribune Editorial staff this past week. Since I am the on-line candidate for president in the Republican and Democrat parties this year, I will answer them. Perhaps McCain, Obama, Clinton, and Huckabee will take time to put their two cents in, too. I have answered from a fairly clear cognitivist IP perspective

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Serendipity and a Journey to West Bali 2008
In contrast to Eastern India where Hindus attacking Christians and Christian communities have been high in recent years, the case of Bali and Hindu and Christian relationships have been improving substantially. Bali is an island of Hinduism in the Muslim archipelago of Indonesia. The isle also has christian communities; the author takes the reader to several and points out possible points of integration that could be a model

Saturday, February 2, 2008
"Now that EDWARDS, KUCINICH, RICHARDSON and OTHER PROGRESSIVES HAVE ABANDONED the RACE, I WILL NOW RUN for PRESIDENT o
(4 comments) Someone needs to state ECONOMY IS CONGURENT TO WAR and explain to the media consumers and voters that the WAR is DOMESTIC Politics. With 170,000 american troops in Iraq now and hundreds of thousands more set to go there over the next two or three years, "It's the War Stupid, i.e. the economy". This is a wake up call to progressives to put the heat back in the 2008 elections:WAR IS COSTING AMERICANS TOO MUCH

Friday, February 1, 2008
WHY WON'T THE WEST TAKE JORDAN UP ON ITS OFFERS TO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IN PARTNERSHIP?
(2 comments) Last November and December 2007, the King of Jordan and Jordanian officials met and spoke several days with the European Union about creating solar and other alternative energy sources in a partnership in coming years in the Jordanian deserts. Since the Bali conference on global warming in December 2007 no American or European companies have followed Jordan up on these offers. Why is the West not taking the offer seriously

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
SEVEN DAYS MOURNING FOR SUHARTO: GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD LIKE THIS SORT OF ENDING
This article written in Indonesia on the date of Suharto's funeral compares concepts of atonement and justice between Eastern and Western Faiths as they function or should be functioning in 2008. There is a focus on justice and forgivenss.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
SEVEN DAYS MOURNING FOR SUHARTO: GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD LIKE THIS SORT OF ENDING
This article is written from the iconic progressive evangelical christian perspective. it compares sin, corruption, & malfeascence in government with concepts of forgiveness and atonement practices of traditional religions--Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and other faiths such as Shinto. It looks at the demise of both Suharto and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and how America should approach it.

Friday, January 25, 2008
ABU DHABI DIALOGUES ON PROTECTION OF WORKER RIGHTS PRODUCE AGREEMENT-BUT it's just a start!
Twenty states agreed an important first start and partnership towards improving the rights and mobility of foreign labor in the Middle East this the Abhu Dhabi Dialogues. Here is a summary of the document and of key responses from interested parties, such as the IOM's chief.

Monday, January 21, 2008
KUWAITI NEWS ROUND-UP or SMORGASBOARD: JANUARY 2008
By reviewing the local Middle Eastern news broadly this January 2008, one discovers that bin Laden's and George W. Bush are seen as connected. For example, just days after Bush left Egypt, we find that a new sort of Bin Laden political actor hs arisen on the Middle Eastern radar. This bin Laden looks like his father but claims to be a piecenik. Meanwhile George W. Bush has a lackluster reception in Kuwait and elsewhere.

Monday, January 14, 2008
CALL TO REPLACEMENT INCOME TAX WITH THREE SMALLER TAXES TO HAVE BETTER GOVERNANCE
As Mike Huckabee has advocated a flat sales tax to replace the income tax in the USA, it is time to consider a better plan: This plan envisions replacing the current single income tax with a tax that voters can use to tell the government what their spending priorities are and what the government's priorities should be. This 3-part tax plan envisions using 3 smaller taxes to replace the income tax. It is also fairer to poor

Thursday, January 10, 2008
ENGLISH FIRST!!!AND WHAT IS SECOND? THIRD?
(5 comments) The author advocates opening the borders and seriously reducing monolingualism in the USA.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
Dear New Hampshire Voters and Other Americans: Let's Review Why the Median Income in America has Not Been Good for Deca
Author summarizes points made several months ago on Democracy Now's 2007 Debate Between Greenspan & Naomi Klein. However, the author does so by focusing on a more concise narration of the economy of the USA written months before by Larry Beinhart and published in Op-Ed just as the housing scandle was breaking. The author reminds New Hampshire and other voters what a real recovery means.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
???? ARMED FORCES RADIO AND VOICE OF AMERICA RADIO: "WE ARE YOUR RADIO STATION, NOT YOUR ROLE MODEL!" ----????
The author, in Kuwait, begins by discussing an identification slogan from Voice of America radio: "We are your Radio Station--not your Role Model". The author questions the attempt by VOA (and by extension Armed Forces Radio) to admit that they need to think more outside the box and apply the same standards--"loose lips sink ships" to how government sponsored radio stations funcion in the Middle East. We live in one village.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
IOWA VOTERS, PLEASE, SHAKE UP THE SYSTEM AND CHANGE THE WORLD IN 2008!
(4 comments) Candidate Kevin Stoda asks Iowa Republicans to be become emancipated from BIG MONEY--that is why he is running on the web. His first five actions upon taking office would be to (1) focus on the poor being hurt by current banking closure and possibly remunerate losers of proper who who have already lost their property over the past year. All bailouts for large lenders will have to place banking sector under new rules etc.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
EVALUATING THE ARCHITECTURE AND MUSEUM YAD VASHEM AFTER THE BUILDING OF THE WORLD'S TALLEST BARRIER WALL 2007-2008
(5 comments) The author has spend several decades studying the images projected at various WWII era commemoration sites, from Thailand to Japan to Germany and Poland. In this article, the author evaluates and juxtaposes what it means to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem in the wake of the creation of mammoth barrier wall in the eastern occupied territories of Palestine in 2007.Although the museum is worthwile its haunting

Thursday, December 27, 2007
William Walker Reports from Rachel's Tomb Checkpoint of the Massive Barrier Wall Near Bethlehem this Christmas
The author reports on the infamous crossing at Rachel's Tomb which was opened this Christmas to Pilgrims marching from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. The author reflects on the nature of the wall as a sort of Potemkin village or Potemkin Facade--which is fooling on a few tourists.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
Remembering:FIGHTING COLLUSIONS OF SILENCE! BREAK THE SILENCE! One Educator's Approach to Memory in Line with Iris Chian
The Iris Chang Memorial Essay Contest ended recently just as the film on NANKING came out in New York City. Here is one teacher's response.

Sunday, December 16, 2007
WHERE YOUR TAX DOLLARS REALLY GO?-WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH, AMERICA? The total outlays for defense spending this 2008
Author discusses the casualties in the American economy and social sense of security caused by throwing money at a "endless war on fear". The author notes that currently the military debt in budget for 2008 is 2.4 trillion dollars. The author rewrites one of those on-line critiques of taxes in the U.S. in general to make the point.

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Dear Christians and American Supporters of Founding Fathers: "Here is Why Bush and Cheney should Resign Now-and why Pelo
(5 comments) This article looks at the christian image of GOD as FATHER a makes a tour d' force of explaining how there lies common ground Among christians, jews, muslims, and American secularists to demand the resignation of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney--and probably Nancy Pelosi this holiday season. This is an epitemic appeal to christian leaders and lay leades as well as to lovers of the FOUNDING FATHER'S America. do it in 2007!

Sunday, December 9, 2007
"IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH": YAHOO is GOING STRONG with nearly 4.5 Million RESULTS while GOOGLE APPEARS MANIPULATED DOWNW
(2 comments) With "Impeach Bush Cheney" search engine results on YAHOO rising upward to nearly 4.5 million as of December 8, 2007, why are GOOGLE results spiraling downward by well over 60% in the same period? This article is the third in a study of how the GOOGLE algorithm for its searches reflect or fails to reflect the American pulse as concerns "IMPEACH CHENEY BUSH".

Saturday, December 8, 2007
DEAR REPUBLICANS AND PROGRESSIVE EVANGELICALS: A NOTE ON A WAY OUT OF THE QUAGMIRE
This is part of a series of articles focusing on the Iowa Caucus, the need for progresives to shift all debates to the left of the status quo, and the need to rethink business as usual in terms of presidential campaigns and the electoral system currenlty in play. The genre used to do this is through a letter to the voters of Iowa.

Sunday, December 2, 2007
DAY 2 OF THE CAMPAIGN IN IOWA
(3 comments) Too few Republicans born or raised after 1980 know that there were once fantastic progressive movements and leaders in the party. The focus of this writing is reminding voters of this fact in advance of the Iowa caucus. A change is needed in 2008 and the party needs to allow social evangelicals, Republican unionists, and progressive Republicans have a voice for a change. America needs it.

Saturday, December 1, 2007
I DECIDED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN THE IOWA CAUCUS AND WHY YOU SHOULD RUN, TOO
(1 comments) Tonight I decided to run for President of the USA. I initially went to a web page of the Iowa Republicans and registered as follows on a page dedicated to On-Line OR E-leaders with the Republicans: After looking at the candidates in the Republican Presidential arena, I realized that progressive evangelicals were being left out. So, I decided to run and asked for help getting a petition introduduced. Here is why. kevin

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
APARTHEID MAPS-ISRAEL & PALESTINE BANTUSTANS
One really needs maps and photos to understand what is being negotiated between Israel and Palestine this coming month. As many churches and Islamic groups are praying for peace. Here are a set of maps provided by the Jerusalem-based PASSIA (The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs). These are historical mapsCheck out the links on housing demolitions, barrier checks, ignoring of human rights

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Dear Arab World: Take Sudan and other Neighbors to Task for Distorting both Islam and democracy today!?
A lot of people in the Middle East and in the West are upset about the (1) 200 lashes asigned by judges to a rape victim in Saudi last week and (2) the subsequent arrest of a teacher in Sudan for educating her students to discuss and vote democratically. This article ties this shut-up and block-out truths in Arab lands to the anti-democratic charges in the M.E. and in the West.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
THE CAMBODIAZATION OF PAKISTAN ROLLS ON--AS ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES TO RIDICULE U.S. ATTITUDE ON DEMOCRACY
The expansion of the war in Pakistan may prelude a full "cambodiazation" of the ongoing war on terror. Will it lead to the same consequences--killing fields? Meanhile, Arabs look on in disdain at how Negroponte and US find democracy such a negotiable object.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
A VISIT FROM THE HOLY SEE-ARCHBISHOP IN KUWAIT PROMOTES DISCUSSION BETTER RELATIONS WITH ISLAM
The author describes (Nov 12, 2007) the visit of Archbishop Mounged El-Hachem (Apostolic Nuncio to the State of Kuwait) to the Aware Center in Surra, Kuwait in which he presented on "Dialogue between Christians & Muslims Today". He focused on documents from Vatican II and an October 13, 2006 letter from Muslim clerics and scholars from 49 nations.

Monday, November 19, 2007
DEPLETED URANIUM STRIKES AGAIN-THIS TIME IN THE USA
(2 comments) Finally, a British-funded study on DU Weaponry has been conducted in the United States. A report in November 18th's Guardian reports that "23 years after a US arms plant closed, workers, and residents have cancer-and experts say their suffering shows the use of such [DU] weapons may be a war crime."

Saturday, November 17, 2007
KUCINICH CHARGES THAT AMERICAN MEDIA OWNED BY MILITARY CONTRACTERS ARE BIASED AND SUPPORTS HIS CLAIM
(18 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich (Ohio, Democratic Party Candidate for President) argued fairly successfully on the Voice of America (VOA) program , Press Conference USA of VOA News Now, this past weekend (Nov. 17, 2007) that the American media is biased against him and its campaign. This, he claims, is why he is not running at least 3rd or 4th in Democrat election polls already.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ COULD'T HAVE CREATED BETTER CHARACTERS!! THE STORY OF COL. H.R.P. DICKSON AND HIS WIFE VIOLET IN
Author narrates tales on the life of one of Kuwait's most fascinating couples of the 20th Century: Colonel and Dame Violet Dickson, originally fromt he UK. There is an additional focus in this narration on memory of tolerance, intracultural communication and change.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
On the Image of EAGLES & AMERICA
(3 comments) According to American mythology. American Bald Eagles are related as a symbol of prestige and power. This article discusses a new metaphor concerning the Bald Eagle and transformation in America.

Sunday, November 11, 2007
Women in Kuwait Today Contrasted with Sandra Day O'Conner's mid-20th Century America
This article compares primarily the "glass ceiling" for women faced at mid-20th century in the USA with the "glass ceiling" and legal situation for women in Kuwait today. It begins by reporting on the BBC interview held by Sandra Day O'Conner recently and then contrasts the former Supreme Court Justice's experience with that of women in the Gulf Arab world today.

Friday, November 9, 2007
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE MILGRAM TORTURE EXPERIMENT MIGHT BE LINKED TO RAISING OF DICK CHENEY & GEORGE W. BUSH
(7 comments) I think it is time to find out who was involved in the Milgram torture experiments. Was it Bush and Cheney? They attended Yale in the 60s. Let's investigate and teach the true history of America better to our kids

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Clean Ports and Waterways
Community for Clean Ports claims that nearly 20 billion dollars in health related costs stem from port pollution and contamination so for in 2007! Instead of sending soldiers off to get in trouble and die needlessly in foreign wars, America should be paying for a large Conservation Corp. Pay these citizens in the corps at least as well as those in the military are paid-and demand improve military benefits' levels to boot!

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
WRONG IS RIGHT (1982) why I NEVER FORGOT IT and AMERICA shouldn't either
(2 comments) Author focuses on media, politics, propaganda, public misinformation and how history is acquired. In an age when most Americans acuquire more from TV, films and DVDs than they do in school about history, Americans of all political and social stipes need to review the class film WRONG IS RIGHT (1982). The film was so ahead of its time one reviewer thought it was science fiction that predicted 2002-2003 almost perfectly.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
WRITERS' STRIKE PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES: Think! Instead of Watching Reruns-Change the World: Day 2
This is the second part in a series of articles in which the author makes suggestions as to what viewers (and readers) should do in their spare time during the writers strike. First, size up some good candidates and support them. Second, Close down the government. Third, run for office yourself. Fourth, find a way to put together a progressive coalition. Fifth Impeach Bush. Wow! You never have to watch bad TV again.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
PRESENTATION AT AWARE CENTER ON "MUSLIM CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPE" WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON TOLERANCE
(4 comments) In part, this educated presenter, Dr. Hussain, sought to clarify the dual forces in world historiography which have kept buried the positive relationship which Islam provided the West approximately a millennia ago--essentially helping the West to eventually exit the Dark Ages and Middle Ages by providing it with higher levels of scientific, medical, astronomic, and mechanical insight.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
PROTESTS, SYMBOLISM: SHAVED HEADS IN BURMA HIT THE STREETS AGAIN
The first section of this article reviews what has occurred in Burma over the past 6 weeks since the Military Junta's crackdown began. The author attempts also to explain the role and position of monks in a greater movement against one oth worst regimes of the past 3 decades. Finally, the author looks at the issue of how to support good movements (with a focus on imagery and opposition).

Sunday, October 28, 2007
VIETNAM TODAY AND AMERICAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO IT
The author sets out to make a case for thousands of more Americans to get involved in helping Vietnam to become more politically economically hopeful in the coming years. He argues that it is not only a historic duty but important in terms of developing global awareness and critical thinking for all citizens in an age that has been lacking such skills.A positive change in American recollection of Vietnam War era is critical.

Thursday, October 25, 2007
LETTER FROM FIJI: A Call for America to Recognize Reforms
This article introduces an estimate of reforms on-going in Fiji by a reformist insider who until recently was working to improve labor rights and relations in Kuwait.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Citibank, U.S. Credit Management and Me
(3 comments) This is the 3rd of 3 articles on the theme of how Citibank is tied up in world-wide mispromotion of fairness, democracy, good governance, and help for the poorest and more troubled economically. This piece focuses further on credit management scams--namely one by the now bankrupt US CREDIT MANAGEMENT of Irving, Texas.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Lars Anderson's CARLISLE VS. ARMY-What Does it Tell us about the Way Things Used to Be?
This article reviews the Lars Anderson book called CARLISLE vs. ARMY: Jim Thorpe. Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle. It is a book that attempts to combine several histories inlcuding the memory of WOUNDED KNEE, a partial Jim Thorpe's biography, the cadet days at West point of Dwight D. Eisenhower, & the history of American Football. The author does a fine job, but more

Sunday, October 7, 2007
CONTINUING to PONDER GOD and HOW SOME CHRISTIANS BECAME DISORIENTED and LOST THEIR WAY by FOLLOWING and PURSUING RIGHT-W
(3 comments) Many Christians in America haven't yet thought through the problems caused in terms of group think and propaganda involved with word choices in how they express their struggles in life, faith, world, and making themselves understood politically and socially. The mutual coopting of the religious right and the Republican party (Con or Neo con) affected the way we think and express ourselves. The author looks at one example.

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Roberto Clemente: The Enduring Spirit
Roberto Clemente was known as humanitarian who died serving others. He has also been seen as a great athlete, teacher and philanthropist. He was from Puerto Rico but his memory is linked with the of modern U.S. history dealing with integration and hispanic history. His memory should be linked to nicaragua where fundraisers are needed today to help the victims of Hurrican Felix.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein and Amy Goodman
(5 comments) Greenspan never once called into question the spending and misspending of the U.S. government on the Iraq invasion.

Sunday, September 23, 2007
POGO-The Project on Government Oversight Needs More Support and Awareness-as do federal whistle-blowers
(1 comments) On September 21, 2007 a pair of young senators from Missouri and Virginia have presented a bill with over 25 supporters calling for far greater oversight investigating war-time contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)is a good website to see wht more can be done. Browse their web site and see what they offer.

Saturday, September 22, 2007
GET TO KNOW BURMA-SO-CALLED MYANMAR!!
This article introduces readers to how the Burmese struggle today fits into a larger global pattern of supporting military juntas and thugs. It also introduces readers to basic concepts of the decade-long struggle. It also shares links to infromation on heroes, like Aung San Suu Kyi and Dr. Cynthia Maung.

Thursday, September 20, 2007
"NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT"-A Useful Website to See How Taxes are Misspent and Priorities are Lost in America-
(3 comments) I have spent these past few day reviewing the talking-point pages and fact sheets on the NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT (NPP). It is a very informative site for anyone concerned with the political-economic mess our leaders have landed Americans in. NPP effectively provides data and evidence for citizens and youth concerned about the unfair burdens placed on many peoples and regions of this great land.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Swanson's Article--Is Peace or Impeachment Possible?--Makes Clear that Pelosi' Appeasement with Bush -Cheney is a Loser
This is a review of a popular speech and article,David Swanson's Article, "Is Peace or Impeachment Possible?. The article makes clear that Pelosi' appeasement with Bush and Cheney is a NO-GO Zone for Americans and True Democrats. The reviewer attempts to summarize and extrapolate on the speech/article so that it can be used to create speaking points for citizens and congressmen.

Monday, September 17, 2007
SETTING UP A BASE FOR ALLIED TROOPS ON THE IRAN-IRAQ BORDER!!!!! Why We shouldn't trust the spin of Patraeus and Neo-Con
Even before the recent French leadership's warning today that the world needs to prepare for a war with Iran, the Bush-Petreaus team were busy last week white washing the facts--facts which only independent media and national media outside the USA seem to be aware of. The following is a quick summary or round-up of the facts and editorials most of the world are aware from news this past week.

Saturday, September 8, 2007
A CLEAR CONCISE PLAN FOR U.S. WITHDRAWAL is NOW AVAILABLE, please get your congressmen to follow up on it starting TODAY
On September 4, 2007, "The Declaration for Peace" presented to the world, and especially to U.S. citizens and congressmen a 9-Point plan[1] for getting out of Iraq and finally leaving the world and a region with a more peaceful and progressive future than the country Iraq or the region around it has experienced in a long time.The 9-Point plan [2] focuses on stopping the funding for the war and creating a permanent peace.

Friday, September 7, 2007
WHAT ABOUT A "REALITY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE" SHOW?-COVERTLY LEADING TO PROGRESSIVE CAMPAIGNS IN 50 STATES ALL OF 2008!
(1 comments) Well, it's time to run a virtual alternative campaign on-line! Let's call it PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CAMPAIGN 2008 or THE REALITY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE SHOW! In this campaign and reality show, the voting system in one of the later stages would or should be carried out in a fashion similar to the wonderful: Peace Primary That voting system is quite similar in some ways to the one used to rank national college teams.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
With Millions of Americans Going Abroad to Work, Serve and Volunteer, Americans Must Understand and Support Protections
As more and more Americans are forced to go abroad to earn proper wages for proper work provided, it behooves all Americans to seek higher international or cross-border standards of pay, performance and work place treatment around the globe.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
GOOGLE WATCH: IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY rises by 110,000 in less than six weeks-September 5, 2007
(2 comments) The buzz on the web about impeaching Cheney and then Bush is growing but not fast enough. Americans must show the world who is in charge--WE THE PEOPLE!

Monday, September 3, 2007
Federalism, American Civil War Musters and the Middle East
On a visit to an American Civil War muster, the author focuses on: (1)what America's Civil War can teach us about issues today, (2) what people to people events and activities might teach us about our own nation's and global history, and (3)how federalism in American history can empower clearer thinking in solving major issues of our time, including how diverse nations and tribes can reach agreements.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
American Education in USA--in TERRE HAUTE where one Sign at the Steakhouse reads: DRAFT BEER, NOT SOLDIERS
Young people have high university and college debts.Young people are disillusioned with educational options and costs.Some people oppose the draft as a solution to America's recruitment shortfalls, however, no one is discussing drastic reduction in American military waste and over-expansion of budgets each year. The media and propaganda budget of the USA government's military machines overwhelm young people in debT.

Monday, August 20, 2007
AMERICANS TRICKLE BACK TO LAOS-or should be doing so
(5 comments) It is a very important time for America and Americans to begin to build relationships that our nation destroyed in the past. Visiting Laos is the main recommendation of this author. He tells of his recent visit and observations to Laos--focusing on what memories or American amnesia dealing with the bombing of Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. Finally, he makes recommendations on how to help Laos do better.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
COLLAPSED BRIDGE IS JUST ANOTHER SIGN OF "THE LOSER SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT" DRIVING AMERICA TO BE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY
America's SPENDING annually of over $1,000,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 on (a) a national war machine, (b) its prior war debts & commitments, and (3) promoting arms trades abroad will not make AMERICA competitive with CHINA or any other power over the next 100 years. Nor will it be an encouraging place for our children or grandchildren to grow up in. Demand that future government bonds support America.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
NEEDED NOW--CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS FOR PEOPLE'S RIGHTS AND MAINTENANCE OF PEOPLE'S AUTHORITY
(7 comments) The first step to constitutional reform in America is to define our progressive agenda in amendment form. The next step is to call for constitutional convention. Both processes need to be started immediately. One of the more important early amendments should be to increase citizens ability to hold conventions and to pass amendments, i.e. reform the process of making an carrying out amendments by lowering from 3/4 to 2/3...

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
REAL BLOGGER FEELS IGNORED BY GOOGLE SEARCH WHILE SPLOGGERS GET TOO MUCH SUPPORT FROM GOOGLE
(3 comments) Splogs and sploggers need to be elinated from search engine results to a greater degree than they have been till now. In this article, a small experiment is shared in which GOOGLE engine results are compared to other search engine results. The difference between GOOGLE results and other's results is best explained by a subtle concurrance by Google that blogspot is likely promoting splogs.

Monday, July 23, 2007
At 8a.m. Monday July 23: Google Search Shows 2,000,300 Results under "Impeach Cheney Bush"
(3 comments) Yesterday, here were 2,000,000 hits for sites, web pages and articles discussing the reasons and need to "impeach Bush and Cheney" as well as other articles on the topic of impeachment in the past and future. Today there were 30,000 more! This is necessary and proper. Please join the millions of Americans who seek impeachment--if not a conviction. America's destiny demands it.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
KAKUEI TANAKA'S LEGACY, TEXAS, AND THE LOCATION OF THE REACTOR IN KASHIWAZAKI, JAPAN
Pork belly politics are as American as Texas toast. The rice fields of Japan in Niigata prefecture brought the Japanese one of the more colorful kingmakers, Kakuei Tanaka, in the country's post-world war two history. Will Japan help Texas develop nuclear power in the future with local Texas kingmakers help? The earthquake in Niigata prefecture should shake nuclear futures. Here is a report the earthquake & its Texaslink

Friday, July 20, 2007
DISCUSSING the N-Word, the B-word, and F-word in our Media, Music, and Images around the Globe
This past week, I was listening to an interview on Democracy Now with Professor Michael Eric Dyson, which also included a report on hip-hop by Mumia Abu-Jamal. The title of the lengthy interview was: "Professor and Preacher Michael Eric Dyson on Hip Hop & Politics, Don Imus, the "N"-word, and Bill Cosby". In the interview, the Georgetown Professor and popular writer Dyson defends the use of the n-word by blacks.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
SUSTAINABILITY, KUWAIT SOCIETY, PROGRESS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY, LIBERAL EDUCATION SIDELINED DUE TO IMTERMEDIARY WASTA
Far too much is made about the role of religion in the Middle East. With Kuwait's tremendously large invest fund, currently at 200 billion dollars--mostly invested in North America and Europe--, Europeans and Americans need toget to know how the society and governments in the Gulf States really work--"wasta" is the secret and it is explained in this article.

Monday, June 25, 2007
ABUSE OF A BENEVOLENT AGENCY by media & IT'S NOT THE GOVERNMENT; IT'S PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE THAT COUNTS IN MAKING PEACE
The first part of this article focuses on how popular culture in the form of TV reruns can affect America's image and the images of benevolent volunteer organizations, using the Mennonite Central Committee in the TV series THE AGENCY as an example. Then the author discusses the need to increase people-to-people efforts, especially in the Middle East today.

Sunday, June 17, 2007
THE USE AND ABUSE OF NEWSWEEK: WAS THAT A JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PLANT IN NEWSWEEK in April or WAS THAT JUST BAD HISTORY?
Last April 2, 2007 NEWSWEEK published a special issue on memories of American soldiers (and even a few Iraqi families) who have been killed in Iraq since 2003. For some reason in the very same issue NEWSWEEK published a self-victimization piece by a a Japanese Historian who had worked previously as advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan. The article contained bogus claims that Japan force women into slavery as prostitutes.

Saturday, June 16, 2007
KUWAIT INC., GULF ARAB INC., AMERICA INC. & China and Other Incs.
Too many people assume that it is religion, tribalism, and tradition that makes the Gulf Arab world ticket. This article takes a poltiical economic perspective and demonstrates that it is cartelism and monopolies that are making and breaking economic justice and the grown of democratic access in the region. The article also takes time to find parallels between the USA, China & Japan as well.

Friday, June 15, 2007
KUWAIT INC., GULF ARAB INC., AMERICA INC. & China and Other Incs.
About one to two decades ago, it was popular to bash Japan by calling it one big cartel or megalopolis of cartels. American economists, businessmen, and cheap political hacks named the country: JAPAN INC. Why has not the same criticism been leveled systaematically at WTO partners in the wealthiest Arab Gulf States--as well as in China and Japan?

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
PLEASE, JAPAN, STOP THE WHITEWASHING OF MEMORY!
(6 comments) Over the last few years, the world has witnessed resurgence in Japanese memory-loss related to WWII and the invasion of China at the government level. Not a month seems to go by without the Japanese Prime Minister or some other official visiting or sending gifts to the infamous Yasukuni Shrine (Shrine dedicated to war heroes) near Tokyo.

Sunday, June 3, 2007
THREE FEMALE HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS RECORD OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN KUWAIT AT AWARE CENTER
At the end of May 2007, the AWARE Center in Surra, Kuwait invited three noted female Kuwaiti activists to speak on and reflect on the previous year's elections. That is when women voted and ran for office of their National Parliament in Kuwait for the first time in that nation's history. They also discuss what needs to be done in the future.

Saturday, June 2, 2007
REVIEW OF BOOK: Gary Chapmen's LOVE LANGUAGES OF GOD
This modified review of the metaphors of LOVE LANGUAGES created by Gary Chapmen in a series of books is used in this piece as a platform or vehicle to augment discussion across religions, sects, churches, mosques, etc.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
KUWAITI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST HOUNDS BRITISH DIPLOMAT AND TRIES TO FOCUS MORE ATTENTION ON RIGHTS ISSUES IN KUWAIT
The Kuwaiti government and ruling family should learn from Human Rights advocates and NGOs in order to compliment efforts and give a platform for the neglected and provide public space for more interaction by providing the non-Kuwaitis to organize more readily in order to promote human rights and dignity for all. Moreover the government and society ought to try to become a country with a government that more thorou

Sunday, May 20, 2007
KUWAIT SAYS "ENOUGH WARS" SHOUTS THE LOCAL PRESS

Friday, May 11, 2007
Shaven Head and Mourning from Cambodia to ‎Virginia Tech‎
(1 comments) The author shaves his head in morning for 32 days. It is time for a renewal in America in terms of moral standards, true help the need, and true protection and sense of safety for all.

Thursday, May 10, 2007
BOOK REVIEW FROM THE EDGE OF THE PLANET: ‎Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY ‎EVERYTHING ‎
In reading Bryson's book, it has often been ignored how he took time to lift of environmental heroes, like Clair Patterson, who probalby did more to help the enviroment in the 20th Century than any other scientist. Bryson's work is particularly poignant to a reader in an archipelago so far from the USA as globally possible

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Why we all Need to Read "Nathan der Weise" from Lessing and Discuss it with our Islamic Friends
(1 comments) Outside Germany, most people have never heard of Gotthold Lessing's play, NATHAN THE WISE. They should, however, since it is being performed in theaters all over the world outside of Germany. The play is about religion and culture wars,is set in the midst of the crusades and finds great discussions and plot amongst Jews. Christians and Muslims--as everyone learns secrets about their past and identities.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
PROGRESSIVE EVANGELICAL KANSAN CRITIQUES THOMAS' WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS ?--WITH HELP FROM OTHER AUTHORS
Using a popular fiction work for evangelical christians, the progressive evangelical author critiques, embraces, and makes suggestions upon reviewing Thomas modern classic on Modern Kansas reality.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
IMAGINE IF George W. Bush HAD PARTICIPATED in ‎the MK ULTRA PROGRAM
(2 comments) Imagine if thirty years after the horrible MK ULTRA project was supposed to have ‎been closed down, an American who went through the program is elected President of ‎the United States of America.‎ This is a piece written mostly in documentary-film style & describing the type of film we are waiting from Oliver Stone and others in Hollywood to give us.

Monday, April 30, 2007
A Federalist Peace Theory, 1946-1992
Democratic peace theory posits that democratic regimes are in general about as conflict- "Žand war-prone as non-democratic regimes--as well they have rarely gone to war with one anohter. It "Žis explained in this article that another regime type does the same--namely the federation as a regime type.