Afghan Hospital Bombing: Its Meaning
October 6, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan
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Over Forty Percent of US Children are Living in Poverty
August 22, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts A report from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health reveals that forty four percent of US children are living in poverty
Decline of Earth’s plant life threatens human life as we know it
July 21, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dr John Schramski, of the University of Georgia, has recently completed (as lead author) a study of the effects of the over exploitation of Earth's plant biomass
Reflections on China’s South Sea Trouble Thomas Riggins
June 20, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Lying in the South China Sea between Indochina and the Philippines is a collection of 700 or so small islands collectively known as the Spratly Islands
Sin, Socialism and Sacrilege
May 19, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In some ultra-conservative circles the issue of gay marriage has become the cause célèbre du jour.
Kissinger and Shultz on ‘The Iran Deal’
April 26, 2015 2:25 am Leave your thoughts The Wall Street Journal on 8 April turned over an entire editorial page to former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz
Fateful Steps That Led to the Crisis in Ukraine (Part 2)
April 4, 2015 9:58 pm Leave your thoughts
The borders of the Ukraine today are very different than they were before WWII
Fateful Steps That Led to the Crisis in Ukraine (Part One)
March 24, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The crisis that struck Ukraine last year was the result of problems that had been festering, not only in Ukraine but all along the former frontiers of the USSR since the end of the cold war
Prolegomena to Any Future Understanding of the Crisis in Ukraine
March 10, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The political and military manoeuvres now going on in the Ukraine have the potential of escalating out of control
Is Russia a Kleptocracy?
February 26, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many anti-Russian commentators today have no problem with classifying Vladimir Putin's government as kleptocratic