Beijing and the Dalai Lama: Machiavellian Strategy or Driving Off a Cliff?

"Beijing is apparently ignoring the Dalai Lama's comments about giving up on making a breakthrough and Chinese officials said yesterday that the next round of talks between the two sides would go ahead as planned. This is in accordance with their apparent long-term game plan,...

Warning over maternity leave threat to women's careers

A commission has claimed that the right for a woman in the UK to take a year for maternity leave may be making employers hesitant to hire or promote women, for fear of losing them for a eyar down the line."THE right to a year's maternity leave could be ruining women's...

Fury as Tory leader David Cameron tells poor: It's your own fault

The differences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK have become increasingly blurred in the last 15 years. But yesterday David Cameron, the Conservative leader who is leading the charge to bring the...

Scientific Study Proves: Researchers Guess 99% of the time,

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNow this is not an April Fools Joke, this is a verifiable fact.A Fact based on numerous studies reported in the media over the decade pretty much shows conflicting research...

Darfur, Tibet prompt little action

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor I cannot understand why China would ever want to oppress Tibet, but for Gold, The peaceful Tibetans have nothing to offer resource wise, they are just a peaceful peoples...

If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine?

OPINION: The US and EU rushing to support Kosovo's unilateral independence, and the precedent it sets, compared to these same powerful nations refusal for over 40 years to support Palestinian independence is the...

Fidel Castro's Year End Message

As the New Year begins with the explosion of coverage for the run-up to the US Presidential election, Fidel Castro Ruz sent a year end message to the Cuban National Assembly which was read aloud to that body December...

The Nature of War

War is ultimately a crime unto itself and debases all those who participate in it regardless of their justification for participation.  The ideals of country and patriotism quickly fade into feral debauchery and...

Northern Ireland - The British Army Melted Away, Rather Than Marched Away

Three different sources have been included: "RTE (Republic Of Ireland) UTV (Northern Ireland) ""BBC (The UK)"" ""The Troubles is a term used to describe the latest installment of periodic communal violence...

Brown urged to plan Iraq withdrawal

"Pressure increased on Gordon Brown to set out a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq yesterday after Lord Ashdown warned the coalition mission had been undermined by "ridiculously"...

Invasion of the Ecosystem: Alien Species Scarier than Fiction

"Nomura's jellyfish Japan They look more like something out of Doctor Who than the jellyfish seen in European waters. But since last year Japan's coastline was invaded by the massive sea creatures which can grow up...

Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel

"Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel By DAVID HOROVITZ Print Subscribe E-mail Toolbar Talkbacks for this article: 256 Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to...

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communitiesfrom Library clips by Johnt"There’s a lot of talk about networks and communities, I posted on blog communties or networks not long ago…Collaboration Loop has a comparison. As often put networks are individual...

Bushed Army: Our forces strain under a surge of new missions by Andrew Bacevich

" June 4, 2007 Issue Copyright © 2007 The American Conservative Bushed Army Our forces strain under a surge of new missions. by Andrew J. Bacevich Courting the soldier vote during the 2000 presidential campaign, the candidate made this simple promise: “Help is on the...

War Without Consequence? Absurd.

"Who said the following? There are a lot of things that are different now [after the invasion of Iraq], and one that has gone by almost unnoticed — but it's huge — is that by complete mutual agreement between the US and the Saudi government we can now remove almost...

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