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Robert C. Koehler: The Silent Scream Of Numbers
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 1:06 pm | Guest Opinion
As they slowly hack democracy to death, we’re as alone — we citizens — as we’ve ever been, protected only by the dust-covered clichés of the nation’s founding: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” It’s time to blow off the dust and start paying ... More >>
Opinion: The Carter-Baker Election Commission
Monday, 18 April 2005, 1:10 pm | Guest Opinion
The last two presidential elections revealed that American democracy is in distress. A full public airing is much needed and the stature of the Carter-Baker Commission promises to garner the national attention and respect required to truly grapple with ... More >>
View From Poland: Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Plan
Thursday, 14 April 2005, 12:01 am | Guest Opinion
As an economist who lived in Zaire, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa for more than twenty years, I have been following Jeffrey Sachs' involvement in several places, but particularly in my native Poland, regarding his Millennium plan to alleviate ... More >>
Eva Golinger: U.S. Aggression towards Venezuela
Monday, 4 April 2005, 11:10 am | Guest Opinion
Washington’s efforts to discredit the Venezuelan Government have increased over the past few weeks. Tactics and strategies applied in prior years attempting to overthrow the Chávez administration through a coup d’etat, an illegal oil industry strike that ... More >>
Radha Basnyat: Let Us Live In Peace
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 11:44 am | Guest Opinion
It was a good thing that career politicians who had looted the country were arrested and placed behind bars. Hopefully, they will get appropriate punishment. More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: SOS in the Himalayas
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 4:21 pm | Guest Opinion
Nearly three months after King Gyanendra dismissed Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s multiparty government and assumed full political powers, international discussions continue to be narrowly framed around the need to restore democracy. More >>
Inside The ABC News UFO Documentary Hoax
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 11:25 am | Guest Opinion
Of course, the title of the show was `Peter Jennings Reporting…' – if only that were so. This is the story of how, once again, the corrupt Big Media has defrauded the American people, from one who had a front row seat to the spectacle. More >>
Utah Prosecutors Are Soft On Polygamy
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:08 am | Guest Opinion
In spite of the abuse and corruption attributed to Mormon fundamentalism, the substance of which is published almost daily in Utah's newspapers, there is in Utah a well organized, impressive movement to decriminalize polygamy. This movement is encouraged ... More >>
Chalmers Johnson: Coming to Terms with China
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 12:06 am | Guest Opinion
I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, ''The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan.'' More >>
Words of Wisdom from Palestine - Sabeel Solidarity
Monday, 14 March 2005, 1:37 pm | Guest Opinion
Don't we all want peace? Peace of mind, peace of heart, and peace with the neighbors are normally what every person yearns for. How often does a mother give in to her children, to have some peace of mind. More >>
Peter Rost: Testimony On US Drug Import Policy
Monday, 21 February 2005, 6:20 pm | Guest Opinion
I and many of my colleagues joined the drug industry to save lives, not to take them. And that's the reason I've chosen to speak out today. More >>
A NZ Volunteer Reports On Aid Effort In Sri-Lanka
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 1:01 pm | Guest Opinion
I arrived in Sri Lanka on 21 January and will arrive home on 16 February. As I considered coming over, firstly aid agencies, then the NZ-Sri Lanka friendship societies I spoke to, were lukewarm about an enthusiastic volunteer coming over. More >>
Dipta Shah: Making Sense out of Non-sense
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 11:18 am | Guest Opinion
With the Royal proclamation of February 1, 2005, Nepal has once again been thrust onto the international arena, grabbing headlines and courting controversy. The image portrayed has all the elements of international disapproval, dissention, and emotionally ... More >>
Manisha Koirala: Give the King and Nepal a chance
Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:15 pm | Guest Opinion
Nepal's conditions have been going from bad to worse, there is no law and order, no peace and no security. The economic conditions too have deteriorated. I grew up in the country, and though a child's memories are always beautiful, I do remember ... More >>
B. Raj Giri: Nepal: Beginning of a New Era?
Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:13 pm | Guest Opinion
A new chapter in Nepal's history entered on 1st of February, 2005. King Gyanendra initiated this history by sacking unproductive Sher Bahadur Deuba led coalition government, declaring state of emergency, and most of all by forming the cabinet under his direct ... More >>
Dr Khagendra Thapa: Nepal in Turmoil
Monday, 7 February 2005, 1:55 pm | Guest Opinion
It is commendable that Nandu Raj Acharya had the courage to complain against the corrupt elected criminal Chiranjivi Wagle. Mr. Acharya is a brave Nepali who has stood up against a bunch of elected criminals who may kill him any time and any place. More >>
His Majesty The King Of Nepal Makes The Right Move
Friday, 4 February 2005, 4:29 pm | Guest Opinion
Ever since the inception of the so-called multiparty government, the party bosses and their relatives and cronies have been looting the nation and its destitute people. More >>
Opinion: King Gyanendra Action Is Truely Justified
Friday, 4 February 2005, 3:23 pm | Guest Opinion
The recent political developments in Nepal has been a great concern to all Nepalese living within and outside Nepal. More >>
Iraqi Elections: Stakes and Aftermath Scenarios
Monday, 31 January 2005, 1:31 pm | Guest Opinion
The 30th of January 2005 is a landmark in the history of Iraq as it is the date of the first Iraqi elections in half century. This crucial vote is drawing considerable local, regional and international attention not for the occurrence of the elections ... More >>
David Traynier: Iran Now, Iraq Then
Friday, 28 January 2005, 1:01 pm | Guest Opinion
The drum beat for an attack on Iran is becoming louder with every passing day. From the governments of the US and UK - and their media - a steady stream of warnings, insinuations, and allegations is softening us up to support an assault on Iran by ... More >>
