Historic Elections in Sudan

After a long period of the war that lasted almost 24 years, for the first time, finally tomorrow the Sudanese are Sudan electing the new president and the parliamentarians. These historic elections are a step ahead toward unity and democracy if these elections are held in peace and with credibility. This will only succeed if the members of the Sudanese government together with the organizers of the elections are truly committed to bring peace in the country. However, this also requires that the opposition and the different political parties that are in the country take part to this great event;... (more)

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A Spectre is Haunting Europe

It stands out among the recollections I have of my first visit to Rome when I was in my teens. It’s not the Coliseum, or Saint Peter’s, or the Sistine Chapel, or the Forum, or the Baths of Caracalla; no, it was the armed police guard outside the city’s main synagogue.

This was the summer of Schindler’s List, a movie that we had been discussing in school. It was easy to comfort ourselves that the murderous anti-Semitism shown in Spielberg’s movie was a thing of the past, that it could never happen again. That Roman carbinieri opened my mind to a sobering truth: it had never really gone... (more)

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Meanwhile In Darfur, U.N. To Send Troops To Sudan

Amid reports of Lindsay dodging cops, Paris losing millions, and Britney finalizing her divorce, the war torn region of Darfur, in Sudan, was granted a faint ray of hope Tuesday. This ray comes in the form of a U.N. resolution number 1769. Invoking Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter the U.N. Security Council authorized on Tuesday the use of a peacekeeping force of 26,000 troops and police, largely drawn from African nations, in order to address the humanitarian crisis in the region. In a compromise with the Sudanese government, which has until now refused to allow U.N. troops, the peacekeeping... (more)

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Red Menace Rising

In the space of only one year, the U.S. debt being bought and held by Communist China rose by a full 25%. China, not only the world's second largest buyer of U.S. debt, is also the world's leading purchaser of military hardware behind the U.S. itself. Outspending even the Russians and the entire Middle East combined, the U.S. government seems to be turning a completely blind eye towards what can only be described as the largest conventional and nuclear military buildup in modern history.

As with any emerging global power able to project it's will through military might, China has already... (more)

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Dying Dr. Death Lives On.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the man known as the infamous Doctor Death, was released from a Michigan prison last June 1st, after serving eight years of of 10 to 25 year stint for assisting in the death of a Michigan man that he videotaped and broadcast on television... The physician "earned " his early release due to his failing health. It has been reported that the 79 year old Doctor suffers from chronic hepatitis C, which he contacted while serving in Vietnam. In a parole board hearing over twelve months ago, Kevorkian's attorneys and his doctors said he had less than a year to live. Kevorkian... (more)

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