The Death Penalty Staggers
The tide has turned against capital punishment in America. The New Jersey legislature abolished its death penalty last week after years of moratorium and state-commissioned study. New York’s death...
Category: Current Affairs
Slave to Fate and desperate men
.!.On July 1, 2002 a Bashkirian Airlines passenger plane and a DHL cargo jet collided over the German countryside. Eyewitnesses reported seeing fire in the sky, a noise like thunder stirred the...
An Inconvenient Princess
There is a strange truism at work in modern society: people who are capable of instigating real change, those who possess intellect and charisma as well as the circumstantial power to influence and...
The War to Stop is the Next One
Starting a war requires little more than a basic form of primeval intelligence. Stopping a war, however, may call for the concerted dedication of many superior human minds. It is consequently a...
Playing Games with the Facts Around High Oil Prices, While Missing its Economic and Global Consequences
In the United States, oil prices will go up this summer - surprise! For much of the American media, this is a headline. For most US consumers, it is something that happens fairly regularly - albeit...
The Nuclear Option in a Mad, Mad World
The total world demand for oil reached 85.71 million barrels per day (mbd) in 2005. The main consumers were North America that accounted for 30.6 percent (or 25.65 mbd), the Pacific and Asia,...
After the Storm
Hurricanes are scary, but in a basic, elemental way. They don't mean to destroy everything in their path; water and air molecules don't get together and decide that today they are going to batter the...
Burkhas, Bikinis, and Other Lies
“You're in deep doo-doo now," was my 6th grade math teacher's favorite expression, the one that signaled a mini-Apocalypse in the form of a D grade, or a detention, or a shrill call to the parents...
Notes from Amman Surgical Hospital– November 9, 2005
As soon as we entered Amman Surgical Hospital, the depth of the tragedy engulfed us. To my right, a young man slouched in a chair, surrounded by friends. A veiled woman, who could have been his...
RUMSFELD MUST GO
If George W. Bush wants Arabs to believe a word he says, then big heads should quickly start rolling in his administration. Starting with Donald Rumsfeld, who played down the torture incidents with...