Arvind Kejrewal, the social activist turned politician who is acquiring the center stage of the political scene seems to be the voice of the nation. The way he has stormed into the limelight, making one allegation after the other, reminds of the days of the Thelka dot com, when its video exposes shocked the audience. […]
Stock Markets Are Bad Granfalloons, and Need To Stop Being Taken So Seriously
by Donald Croft Brickner Oh, what — the world’s stock markets haven’t crashed … yet? Before tackling the American DJIA, etc. stock markets for major problems in their conception — to my knowledge, a huge topic rarely discussed with a straight face of late — please grant us now a brief detour into what I […]
On Running Headlong Into 2012: Stay Light on Your Feet
by Donald Croft Brickner Per the Growing Importance of a Tenable Global World View — a Recommended Ontological Backdrop to the Essay that Follows: Ours is not a primary reality. Everything in our cosmos is a construct of an invisible-to-the-naked-eye building-blocks foundational reality — whose operating rules are not only consistently different from those of […]
Monster unemployment
Our leaders, ministers and politicians are not conscious of the dreadful dangers of unemployment stalking the country like a merciless monster and gripping its hold tighter and tighter the necks of our millions of young, promising and brilliant youth who see no future and are facing a blind wall. It is ironical that no political […]
Ibrahim Babangida is the hope for Nigeria
Ibrahim Babangida is the devil incarnate to the majority of Nigerians. It is understandable. We all know his numerous sins; they’ve become cliché to all of us. His three most grievous sins, according to mainstream media are: He allegedly murdered one of Nigeria’s finest Journalists, Mr. Dele Giwa in one of the most sophisticated and […]
SRI LANKA’S USE OF THE BOAT REFUGEE WEAPON TESTS WEST/OTTAWA’S RESOLVE ON SL WAR CRIMES INITIATI
SRI LANKA’S USE OF THE BOAT REFUGEE WEAPON TESTS WEST/OTTAWA’S RESOLVE ON SL WAR CRIMES INITIATIVE. Sri Lanka (SL) genocide forced the West into accepting SL’s ethnic cleansed refugees (whether as boat arrivals or otherwise) for several decades without much ado until recently in post-LTTE (May 2009) period. The West absorbed the cost of […]