It has only been about 10 days since the world discovered the next President of The United States will be Barack Obama, and already there is a sense of less anti American rhetoric. Americans living and working abroad were the first to notice this almost before John McCain’s concession speech. [Read more →]
We have heard the stories of pirates attacking cargo ships off the coast of Somalia, the question is why are they so successful in their attacks. Some common sense suggests merchant ships should be properly armed and willing to make toothpicks and shark bate of the attacking small boats. [Read more →]
On September 11 at 8:45 AM New York time the lives of Americans changed forever. This simple reminder to say we have not forgotten the lives that were lost, and the lives that were directly changed. [Read more →]
When you first read this story about a 15 year old suicide bomber who did not want to be, it prompts you to read the story a few more times until it sinks in. If the revaluations in this story are true, it produces yet another layer of raw emotions to sort through as unwilling people are being used in a senseless killing. [Read more →]
As people now want to lash out against terrorist, the concern about taking out innocent people in the process becomes more and more acceptable. There are certainly more than a few people who feel that if nuking and laying waste to an entire country will put an end the terrorists, then do it. [Read more →]
Terrorism was once a word closely associated with fear. Now over the years it has now nearly become synonymous with anger. The anger does not come from the terrorist, but from they people they are trying to terrorize. That anger has become primal and few would disagree that it is inappropriate. [Read more →]
When you look at the war in Iraq you have mixed views as an American. You see on one side political pressure to pull out by Americans who Don’t have a stomach for prolonged war. On the other side you see a more common sense approach not to leave until the job is done. [Read more →]
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is forcing This Friday’s election on because he did not have the most votes in the March 29 elections. Without being the highest vote getter Mugabe may not survive a legal challenge that he is the elected president. [Read more →]
The stage is possibly set for a repeat of the Philippines as Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulls out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe to simply save lives. This leaves the door open for a peoples action movement against Mugabe however it is uncertain if this will happen. [Read more →]
The only way to describe what is going on in Zimbabwe is political terrorism. This news excerpt simply says the President/dictator Robert Mugabe does not want to do what the Zimbabwe people want. He would rater kill and intimidate the opposition before giving up power. This is not politics, it is simply terrorism. [Read more →]
The place has come to signify America’s war on terrorism. This is the place they take suspected terrorist to let them experience fun activities. What we read about and what is going on may be two different things. However as this war goes on, a new front has been opened, and that front is in front of a judge. [Read more →]