Main Menu

Login

Online

There are 3 unlogged users and 0 registered users online.

You can log-in or register for a user account here.

Newsletter

You are currently not logged in, but you can still subscribe to our newsletter.

Random Quotes

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

-- Eugene J. Mccarthy, 1916-, American Politician

How to...

Type German Characters
Copy and Paste in WINDOWS

Category: Thought Provoking

The news items published under this category are as follows.

Thought Provoking: Utter Failure; It's Time to Rethink the Prison System
Posted by: IT
With 2.3 million people in America's prison system, we've literally become our own jailers. It's time to call for a compassionate -- and more effective -- judicial system. By Sylvia Clute \| Alternet, Jun 16, 2010 Our criminal justice system is based on a curious set of rules and a double moral standard. The state’s burden of proving guilt is pitted against the accused’s right to thwart such proof.
>>> Read full article: 'Utter Failure; It's Time to Rethink the Prison System' (17146 bytes more)	118 Reads

Thought Provoking: Google Earth and democracy (from online opinion)
Posted by: IT
	The use of Google Earth to make a virtual discovery... ...which then led to an actual one, is just the latest example of how the spread of satellite technology – and related computer applications such as Google Earth – are changing the way scientists, conservationists, and ordinary citizens are monitoring the environment and communicating their findings to the public.
260 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Google Earth and democracy (from online opinion)' (13280 bytes more)

Thought Provoking: Hemp Grows on World, Not National, Territory
Posted by: IT
That the so-called US "Drug War" is an artifice and a fraud perpetrated by official ignorance and greed. By Garry Davis \|WSA Jun 25, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. Statement by World Citizen Garry Davis, World Coordinator of the World Government of World Citizens: As the German nation, after World War I was "humiliated" by the conditions of the Versailles Treaty leading eventually to World War II, so the Russian nation was "humiliated" along with its disintegrating army and navy following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
>>> Read full article: 'Hemp Grows on World, Not National, Territory' (3281 bytes more)	166 Reads

Thought Provoking: Guess Which Income Bracket Is the Most Generous in the U.S.?
Posted by: IT
	Greed does not engender philanthropy in most people. It only leads to more greed. By Steven D. \| Booman Tribune May 21, 2009 The poor will always be with us and they will always be more generous than the rich.
121 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Guess Which Income Bracket Is the Most Generous in the U.S.?' (305 bytes more)

Thought Provoking: Would God Ever Damn America?
Posted by: IT
Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for. By Robert Scheer \| Truthdig March 26, 2008 Would God ever damn America? Is there anything we have done or could do as a nation that might court such severe judgment from the Almighty, or is there a peculiar American exemption from God's wrath?
>>> Read full article: 'Would God Ever Damn America?' (5071 bytes more)	287 Reads

Thought Provoking: 11 Things We Can Learn from the Rest of the World
Posted by: IT
	Eleven lessons the West can learn that would improve our lives and create a better future for all humanity. Ode Magazine \| October 23, 2007 The world is becoming one. But the game is being played according to rules set by the West. Where colonialism ultimately failed at running the world, Hollywood and the stock market are succeeding. In the process, we are seeing material gain and progress for developing nations -- but also substantial loss.
195 Reads	>>> Read full article: '11 Things We Can Learn from the Rest of the World' (218 bytes more)

Thought Provoking: Bush and Napoleon Both Believed Their Own Propaganda About a "Greater Middle East"
Posted by: IT
There are times when the resonances of history are positively eerie. The parallels of Napoleon's occupation of Egypt with Bush's disaster in Iraq are enough to make you jump out of your chair. By Juan Cole \| Tomdispatch.com August 25, 2007 French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East.
>>> Read full article: 'Bush and Napoleon Both Believed Their Own Propaganda About a "Greater Middle East"' (22318 bytes more)	141 Reads

Thought Provoking: America the Frightened
Posted by: IT
	This is magical thinking. By Alan Bock \| AntiWar.com Feb 17, 2007 It can be both enlightening and frightening to work for a daily newspaper, in that the necessity to listen to and respond to people who have thoughts about what you have written can offer fascinating insights into the thought processes of ordinary Americans. This was brought home to me recently after I did a piece on the pros and cons of going to war with – or even undertaking some kind of cross-border military action against – Iran.
186 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'America the Frightened' (7994 bytes more)

Thought Provoking: Celebrate Global Orgasm for Peace Day
Posted by: IT
In the name of peace, find a partner -- or find yourself -- and have an orgasm. Just don't fake it. By Liz Langley \| AlterNet Dec 22, 2006 When anti-war activists Paul Reffell and Donna Sheehan planned their latest peace-making project -- the synchronized global orgasm -- to fall on Dec. 22, they may not have realized that it's the last Friday before Christmas.
>>> Read full article: 'Celebrate Global Orgasm for Peace Day' (5562 bytes more)	226 Reads

Thought Provoking: Cut and Run - It’s Fun!
Posted by: IT
	by Greg Palast \| Oct 26, 2006 Imagine this: You’re tied to a stake and savages are about to light the logs under your feet. So, class, what do you do? Cut and run!
183 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Cut and Run - It’s Fun!' (1072 bytes more)

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA