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(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 16, 2020 Cultural Encounters
People, all People, regardless of race, religion, gender, color, language and geography, have the same aspirations for good health, peace, prosperity, freedom and happy life.
(21 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Defenseless America
The statistics of deaths related to gun violence are both painful and scary; and the numbers are increasing. The questions are what, why and how. What are the root causes, why it's continuing and rising and how to keep it under control.
SHARE Friday, January 3, 2014 Social Media's Collateral Damage
Criticism and critique made by others on your social-media contributions are very valuable. I have learned from this more than I would have thought.
SHARE Sunday, May 12, 2013 The Basel Committee and The Lamborghini
Yes it will not be easy ,sometimes, to tell the difference between poor judgment and corrupt one, but this should not mean we let corrupt bank executives get away with it
SHARE Saturday, February 22, 2014 Starbucks, the American Pub
What will happen if Americans wake up one morning and there are no Starbuckses?
SHARE Sunday, May 31, 2020 Enough Lip Service Let Us Have a Road Map
What I saw in America observing sad cases such as Rodney King, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and now George Floyd and so many others, is just a typical scenario. Few days' unrest accompanied by lip service from politicians who project sympathy but do nothing.
SHARE Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Colors Talking
if colors were living creatures, this is what might happen when they attempt to create their own WhatsApp group
SHARE Saturday, February 5, 2011 School of Dictatorship
New and effective methods to preserve dictatorship where played out by the Egyptian regime. Such brilliant tactics should form the curriculum for Dictatorship 101.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 20, 2016 Democracy In Jeopardy
If this is the democracy you have been lecturing us about for the last half century, thank you America, we don't need it and we don't want it. There is enough evidence, beyond doubts, of its malfunction., regardless if Trump succeeds or not, the damage is already done.
SHARE Sunday, January 8, 2017 Poor Bibi All He Wants Is A Blank Revolving Cheque, That's All
Netanyahu should know that the rules of the game have changed and political fatherhood and political motherhood no longer exist and are remnants of the past that have been replaced by mutual interest and international law.
SHARE Saturday, October 5, 2013 The Forgotten Occupation Of Lebanon.
This subject should be and should remain on the table, side by side with the nuclear issue, otherwise the Lebanese government and Lebanese people will remain indefinitely slaves for the Iranian ayatollahs.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 29, 2010 Yemen and Afghanistan : How to defeat al-Qaeda ?
The battle with al-Qaeda will never be won militarily. This is a battle of hearts and ideas. If the ideology of al-Qaeda is defeated, then it will dissolve like salt in water.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 5, 2008 God Bless America
I was not sure what title to give to this article. A number of them were fighting in my mind.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 21, 2013 The Real Bank, The Paper Bank
There are two banks in every commercial bank. There is the paper bank and there is the real bank.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, February 8, 2016 Iran & ISIS : The Only Theocracies In The World
Iran since it was taken over by the Ayatollahs in 1979 has become a theocracy state where the religious figures, not political ones rule the country. Khomeini when he took over Iran in 1979, he didn't proclaim himself as a leader or even a religious leader but he went further than that. He declared himself a prophet
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 19, 2009 Are You Still Asking Why They Hate Us ?!
What this horrible holocaust in Gaza mean for the West's intellects, politicians and leaders ? And are they still asking the stupid question: why they hate us?
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Iran's Connection With God
As long as Iran is ruled by religion and Priests, the Middle East will never regain stability, and it is a shame that the civilised world allow some 80 million Iranians who are looking for the Good life to live in the Dark Ages where religion rules.
SHARE Monday, June 23, 2014 Round Trip Ticket
Two things I thank God for. I made it to my sixties and I never worried about death prior to that.
SHARE Saturday, December 29, 2012 I am ok son, it is only Tuesday and Wednesday
He says T&W is a name of a disease that doctors all over the world could not treat and the people prone to it are those who are 70 years old or older.
SHARE Sunday, December 12, 2010 Impaired Driving : A New Kid in The Block
It is unfortunate that some people lose their lives or there ability to walk just because someone else is carless, selfish and insensitive.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 13, 2016 The Mother of All Mothers of Racial Discriminations.
The use of color, any color including "white", to identify people should be legally criminalized and this will be the real test if America wants to kill racial discrimination forever.
SHARE Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Speech Musicality
Communication skill stands mainly on how easy, comfortable, and enjoyable listening to you is ( content quality and speech musicality)
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 5, 2014 The Saturday Night Thing
Some times I am confused between what is good and what is beneficial
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 7, 2016 Am I just getting old or has American politics become childishly adolescent?
Some how I lost the interest I used to have in American politics and elections. It is, to me, turning out to be a competition between individuals who are using their money (and may be someone else's) and presentation skills to buy the people's votes.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Behind Each Toxic Bank Asset There Is a Toxic Executive
Bank failures and the recent financial crisis are not hard to understand. We have a saying in Arabic: unattended money encourages theft. This is exactly what happened.
SHARE Monday, April 27, 2009 Swat, Pakistan: US and Moderate Muslim Countries, Both at Fault
The shocking news that the Pakistani government gave in to the radicals in the northern region of Swat, is not so shocking when one comes to know the events and causes that has lead to this unfortunate development
SHARE Friday, April 12, 2019 Wouldn't You Go For Him ?
A promising young leader who made people life better and made changes in two years that people thought will take decades.
SHARE Thursday, November 25, 2010 The Mother of all Appeasements and The Father of all Extortions
There are 1.5 billion Arab and Muslim people living in 56 countries who demand no less than the internationally recognized 1967 borders, and there few thousands Israeli fanatics who are refusing such legitimate demand
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Is It Still Safe To Invest In America?
Covert operations to keep a financial system running are helpful in the short term but have a devastating catastrophic effects in the long term.
SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2012 God Bless Americans
One closing remark. I wanted to title this Article ( What The Eyes For If They Do Not Shed Tears Today Nov 7, 2012 ), but by the time I started writing my emotions have calmed down.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Provoked to Write
Writing is at its best when provoked.
SHARE Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Ghazanfar In The Land Of The Blind
Ghazanfar Roknabadi, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon recently gave many interviews to various TV channels and became a wanted figure for Middle Eastern media
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 13, 2012 G&H : The Real Danger Facing Peace
Recently, I am more concerned with the unjustified, unwarranted cultural antagonism between nations and religions. Such antagonism is not accidental, but, unfortunately is fueled by greed and hate.
SHARE Friday, June 28, 2013 Colored Or Colorless ?
To me it seems sometimes a paradox. US is the best country that values the individual, yet it is probably the only country where people are identified by original land or color
SHARE Saturday, June 8, 2013 Strong Eyes, Soft Hands
Maybe it's time to go back and review come of the forgotten social norms and wisdom of past generations. They may well offer valuable clues to solving a range of problems facing us today.
SHARE Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Counting Up, Counting Down
What really matters for me is that at age 60 one has consumed 70-75% of his life. I call this age, the stop-counting-up and start-counting-down age. This never means giving up on life. Not at all. I will enjoy it more. The counting down means something else.
SHARE Friday, July 11, 2014 FIFA, Fairplay & Peace
Can the art of football beats the roots of hate, racism and religious fundamentalism? Has FIFA done anything simultaneous with the games to promote world peace and co-existence? Not really.
SHARE Monday, May 7, 2007 No light and No End To This Tunnel
It is frightening sometimes when one think where this world is heading and how our children and grand children will live, fifty or hundred years to come. The five biggest worries are environmental damage, unemployment, corrupt governments, cross-cultural hate and political instability.
SHARE Wednesday, January 23, 2013 The Eleven Ladies, The Eleven Daughters and The American Spring
Remember the current political system, though modified over history, was set up to serve probably one tenth of the current US population. We live in a world where change is the name of the game
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 5, 2013 The Statue of Camera
The real hero behind Arab Spring is the smart phone with it's videotaping capability
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 9, 2007 US Muslims Conflict: Israel Is the No One Beneficiary
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism, the value of Israel to the US became less, especially with the presence of other allies in the region
SHARE Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Hillary, Religion, Mideast and Fort Hood
I totally condemn the killing of 13 innocent people in Fort Hood by their fellow army officer. This a criminal and unjustifiable act that has shocked us all
SHARE Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Stones or Tree Leaves ?
What forced a dictator like Assad to recently empower a people he had always controlled by fire and steel to link up to the world through the use of satellite TV? It was the freedom current and tide now moving through the Middle East.
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, May 12, 2008 The Syrian-Iranian invasion of Lebanon
The occupation of Beirut by Hizbullah and the arming of Hizbullah to a State-level is not a civil war. It is a foreign invasion by all standards.
SHARE Sunday, June 21, 2020 United States of Statues
America is at a major crossroad. It has never been so politicaly polariised and never been so desperate for identity and integration.