ZEN AND THE SUNDAY MORNING MOTORCYCLE RIDE By Warren D. Jorgensen I rolled up to the light and stopped, the muffled throbbing of the engine beneath me the sole sound in the morning air, the only other movement the sun rising slowly over Westchester, warming my back. A cool brisk wind blew out of the […]
Innocent people as human shields
It is sad to note that people are being used as human shields to protect Israel troops from enemy attacks. In a CNN report today, young palestinians have been rounded up to act as fronts, doing house-to-house search in some parts of Palestinian occupied areas. I’m not in favor of this type of skirmishes between […]
Japan offers apology vs comfort women
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged before U.S. Congress that the Japanese imperial forces set up brothels for its troops during the war. Mr. Abe even went beyond offering his deep apology for Japan’s misdeeds at that time when countless number of comfort women were forced as sex slaves. Historians claimed that an estimated 200,000 […]
Bangladesh has lost 30,000 acres of land to India
Bangladesh has been losing thousands of acres of land to neighbouring India due to bank erosion of border rivers for years. The lands that have formed on the Indian side of the rivers have been occupied by Indian people who are using those mainly for crop cultivation and housing purposes. The Indian government is also […]
Free trade puts millions of American jobs at risk
Despite its robust economy, the United States is poised to feel the labor crunch as manifested by the recent job cuts imposed by big corporations just to keep their sagging operations afloat in keeping with their remaining resources. Independent economists have predicted that the problem will be exacerbated further by the emergence of globalization which […]
Liberia sees more investments from renewed diamond exports
LIberria’s government has expressed optimism that the U.N.’s lifting of sanctions on its diamond exports is expected to spark renewed economic growth owing to the inflows of funds into the cash-strapped coffer. Deeply mired in conflicts for many years, Liberia will soon bounce back to revive its ailing economy that was wrought by rampant graft […]