Philippine President Gloria Arroyo was at the White House today seeking aid for her nation, battered by a devastating typhoon and a tragic ferry disaster. During some joint comments outside the Oval Office in which proposed US aid was to be announced, Arroyo politely sat through President Bush’s latest gaffe. “I want to tell [...]

There’s no questioning the fact that Israel’s ultimate goal in Gaza is to remove the Hamas led provisional government from power. Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist, which is, of course, an immense problem with regards to the ability to negotiate – that being, no one will meet with them, let alone negotiate with [...]

Updated: I thought it best to keep discussion regarding the new design in the comments of Dale’s initial post about it. You may proceed there to detail your hatred of the colour orange and all things bleak looking. For those of you that signed up for an account for the purpose of commenting on my recent [...]

During the Second World War, the United States interned some 120,000 Japanese Americans. Two thirds had been born in the United States and thus American citizens with full rights under the Constitution that were completely denied them simply because of their race. Unlike Americans of German and Italian descent, of which very few were interned, [...]

In the summer of 1914 while much of Europe was at war, the ruling Young Turks decided it would be an opportune time to rid themselves of the 2.5 million Armenians living within the borders of the Ottoman Empire. On the 24th of April, 1915, nearly 300 Armenian leaders, politicians, and academics were rounded up, [...]

Today is Columbus Day… which RAISES the question… Is it the holiday marking the anniversary of the October 12, 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas? Is it the benign holiday that Italian-Americans celebrate in honor of their heritage? Or do we let truth get in the way… Is it a day commemorating the begin [...]

Every now and then one comes across something so astonishingly bizarre you just have to share it with everyone you know… and even those you don’t… According to the London Daily Mail, Debra Cagan, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defense Secretary Robert Gates had a very interesting discussion with some visiting British [...]

If you haven’t heard of the ‘Chaser’s War On Everything’, (Australian television show), you will now. They’ve been making waves in the media with a recent stunt in which APEC security was breached when the Chasers, posing as security, got within a stone’s throw of U.S. President George Bush. I thought I’d include the below video [...]

It is often argued that we don’t know what’s occurring on the ground in Iraq and therefore can’t really comment on incidents such as that which recently transpired involving Blackwater Security. In truth, this excuse is used uniformly in many cases with regards to commentary about the war in Iraq, and there is a very [...]

As is usually the case, every morning I come across something worth mentioning and quoting in full, if not almost in full. This morning is no exception. An article by Simon Jenkins on the Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog entitled We Are Offering The Terrorist A Megaphone For His Cause is today’s featured piece… “Don’t [...]