“History shows that it does not matter who is in power… those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end...
Though the U.S. is planning to exit Iraq, the military is still stretched trying to fight a war in two separate countries. During his presidency, George Bush was well aware that restoring the draft...
With the results of Tuesday's Israeli election still largely undecided, one certainty has emerged from the chaotic aftermath: Israel is, as MJ Rosenberg noted on Wednesday, "becoming a right-wing...
Those “Oh my god, the Bush era is over” moments are getting fewer and farther between now as the Obama administration settles in. The easy-to-accomplish changes have happened, and now the hard...
I went to high school in Bavaria, so I speak fluent German. I had always wanted to live in Berlin, but have so far been unable to do due to job reasons. I try and visit my two best friends who live...
I am black and I am a woman; this means that I face two areas of stigmatization. My body is controversial because for some it exists solely as a thing that can be exploited for personal gain....
Perception is reality. So goes the old trope - the bane of various minorities, spiky-haired punks, and clear thinkers everywhere. In an intractable, prolonged, bitter standoff between Palestinian and...
You might have noticed that the whole ’25 facts’/ '25 things about me' trend has turned into a full-blown Facebook craze. It got me thinking. And since a valued muse once told me that the list...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999) retrospective is here. In his excellent book Have you seen?, David Thomson comments on the England of "A Clockwork Orange" as a place...
When life begins is a question that has continuously been up for debate in our social discourse. If life begins at conception, do women have the right to terminate a pregnancy even though the foetus...
