Democratic Conversation

The blogosphere has become a powerful entity to an information-hungry citizenship across the world. While in the West we may feel news-and-information saturated, most of the rest of the world—nearer to 70%—do not have the right to criticize their government leaders, nor have free press rights, which again mean no rights to criticize the government […]

When will it stop?
Western governments and their societies continually stand down to Middle East fanatics who cloak themselves in religious ideology, talk of war and recriminations, and hold modernity and progress hostage to Iron Age superstitions and dogmatism. Their only real power: the ability to turn off the oil spigot. If this is not a […]

The irony of Israel’s anti-semitic policies has plagued their government, news agencies, and people for decades with the reasoned world, even as Israel and world Jewry project their “we’re the victims” attitude with such vitriol across the globe. Question: what is the half-life to using WWII’s Nazi Holocaust as defense for acting with impunity (and […]

When will so many Americans finally educate themselves? This is not an unreasonable question. American society now has a large segment of the population (though nowhere near a majority) that openly agrees with George W. Bush’s assertion that he will do whatever is necessary to “win in Iraq,” regardless “what Congress has decided.” Such language […]

Hillary Clinton has finally spoken. “I’m in. I’m in to win.”
This is the Republican strategists’ dream come true. They will try as hard as they can to “soften” Hillary so that she can get the Democratic presidential nomination. And then they will pounce: on her past, her politics, her connection to her husband, her failed […]