by altha-admin | Mar 16, 2011 | Articles
As the civil war drags on Libya, Gadhafi is gaining the upper hand over the rebels. He has recaptured key port cities, sites of major oil wells. His airpower dwarfs the gun power of the insurgents whom the 42-year dictator is pushing back.While Gadhafi is holding onto...
by altha-admin | Mar 16, 2011 | Articles
Before Iranian Mullahs, Arab despots, Chinese Communists, and Dictators of every stain and stripe were dominating press, print, and radio to prevent their oppressed peoples from hearing new ideas, free-thinking, and open discourse, there was the Vatican.Paul III and...
by altha-admin | Mar 16, 2011 | Articles
In the first week of March 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported on opposition movements rising in Algeria, following the protests rocking Tunisian, Egypt, and the rest of the Middle East.Unlike the staunch opposition of President Mubarak before ultimately...
by altha-admin | Mar 15, 2011 | Articles
Earlier, I had commented on the potentially dubious practice of "celebrity shame-baiting", how it can bring out the worst or the best in the public, depending on the motivation for practicing it.To recap, "celebrity shame-baiting" is the process of...
by altha-admin | Mar 15, 2011 | Articles
Jews have traveled all over the world, settled in lands as far-reaching as Afghanistan (though currently only one Jew still lives there), India, and now. . .China.Jews have a wide and varied existence throughout the Earth.Following their first Diaspora at the sword of...
