Different Views

By presenting only one side of the story concerning the war in Iraq, the mainstream media gives the American public an incomplete and inaccurate picture of what is really happening. A balanced approach could help the public understand that progress and setbacks go hand in hand, and could radically alter the general understanding of what is at stake and we are doing in Iraq.

Barack Obama is attracting a lot of attention in the American presidential race. But the attention from Black people like himself is of a different kind, representing far more than just his potential to create history.

The debate over Obama's "blackness" has gone on too long already. As a nation we need to move past the debate about a candidate's race and focus on what plans the candidate has for our country.

Modern nations are obsessed with weaponry. At some point it makes you wonder if this doesn't speak to some profound impotence we are afraid to address. When is big, big enough? Where will it all end?

Given the relative success of their Muslim minorities, why do so many people in the UK and US seem so frightened of the Muslims in their midst? Part of the answer, of course, lies in the foreign policies of both countries, such as their roles in the war in Iraq. But surely a fear of retribution for actions taken abroad cannot be the entire answer. Terrorist acts on home soil provide another part of the explanation.

What is emerging in many developing nations are ghost networks of procurers, practitioners and care takers who make a profit on the side by facilitating affluent Westerners in need of a transplant.

Why is Islam a religion? If Islam is a religion why isn't Scientology? After all the Scientologists named Tom Cruise as a Bishop of their church. Cruise regularly screams and shrieks that of course Scientology is a valid faith and spiritual program. Why not ascribe to Cruise and his followers the status of a church-going, faith-bound religion?

Former vice-president, and self-proclaimed once the "next president of the United States", Al Gore shows no signs of stopping his assault on the Jabberwocky of man-made global warming. And why should he? He did, after all, have had a hand in creating the internet. With a resume enhancement like that who can blame him?

Government's reordering of economic, moral and spatial values in the left vs. right terminology has been especially poignant. Government reform of its economic philosophy to become more liberal and egalitarian has also instigated a redefinition of socialism's attitude towards its own populist configuration.

Senator John McCain's gibberish concerning the security situation in Baghdad was intended not to show people the "big picture" as he claimed, but to throw dust in the eyes of people, just when the real situation has taken a decisive turn for the worse.

Who is sleeping with who in Congress? I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Congress plays by different rules than the rest of us ignorant Americans. We are not allowed to steal from others by force to give to our friends and associates.

You can tell when someone has a political agenda that doesn't mesh with common sense. How you ask? It's easy to do because one of the first comments to come out of their mouth is to claim "it's not that simple" when you give a simple, common sense solution to the problem that they are looking to defend. They then tear off into long winded diatribes trying to explain why things are not "that simple".

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards' capture-at-gunpoint of 15 British sailors was a reminder that no matter how generous the incentives and how willing the gullible Europeans to offer them, Tehran is not about to abandon its nuclear weapons program, which it considers to be indispensable to its strategic survival.

The U.S. soldier was burned in effigy during an anti war rally in Portland Oregon on March 18, 2007. Since that day some left wingers have distanced themselves from the factions that put on the burn and right wingers have done a bit of burning up the blogs and airwaves themselves with comments and analysis marked with anger, disappointment and disgust.

As the drama in Tehran over the detention of 15 British marines drags on, the Iranian regime continues to escalate the confrontation. Today about 200 Iranian revolutionary guards and intelligence agents dressed up as Iranian "students" threw rocks and firecrackers at the British Embassy and scaled its fences while Iranian security forces held back from intervening just enough to scare some sense into the British personnel at the Embassy