As a Colombia-born friend often reminds me, most of today’s American left has no experience of real poverty or hunger, real political repression, or real civil violence—the kind that leaves a river of blood in the streets. We Americans live in a cocoon of comfort and security compared t...
The message ofthePeace Memorial is clear: bombing campaigns are part of total wars of anni-hilation on both sides. The images and objectsondisplayshow the impact of allbombingcampaigns.Within the argument of totalwar, their interpretations areleft fairlyopen; this can be seen in the ...
My "truth" is that the US is fixable….but Americans insist on blaming the symptoms and refusing to see the actual problem: the failure of representative democracy in the United States due to progressive corruption of the electoral process. That every developed country on Earth – excpet the U...
During the switch, during the transition, demands for tolerance are the battering ram used against the establishment intolerance, in order to make way for the new set of intolerances. As it suits them, advocates of the rising intolerance may pretend to be principled in their tolerance, but it...
"has an equal opposite reaction." The "action" that invited the reaction of the mobs was the torching of a Gujarat-bound train in which 59 Hindus pilgrims, most of them saffron-clad bigots who were returning home from a trip to the site of the Babri Mosque that they had helped demolis...
World Wars World War I Quiz A History of War Military History Buff Quiz Related Questions How many people died during World War I? What was the significance of World War I? What were Woodrow Wilson’s accomplishments? Why was Woodrow Wilson so influential?