Egypt Gets Its Tiananmen Square Moment
Click here to view the embedded video. After the dramatic Tunisian uprising in the Middle East, violent unrest has broken out in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. Nowhere is the U.S. dilemma more urgent...
View ArticleJemima Khan: US Government Protecting Liars
Click here to view the embedded video. Yes, that’s exactly what the British celebrity woman Jemima Khan, former wife of the world’s legendary cricketer Imran Khan, has to say. All governments lie at...
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Angry Pakistan: Ending Its Ties With America?
If Pakistan and the US were a married couple, instead of being strategic players, counselors would recommend at least a long trial separation, if not a total divorce. This conclusion appeared after a...
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To Be Or Not To Be: American Exceptionalism and Identity
Since 2005, I’ve been publishing WatchingAmerica.com, a website that translates news and views about the USA and American policy from all over the world. There may be no better site in the world to...
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Samuel Stokes: An American Jailed For India’s Cause
At a time when America appears lost, and its leadership continues its reckless bid for global supremacy, it is interesting to recall the story of the only American who participated in India’s freedom...
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Why Iran-Israel ‘War’ Spilled to Indian Soil?
India’s security agencies are worried. Initial investigations have revealed that the modus operandi employed by the person who attacked Israeli embassy staff in New Delhi – by fixing bomb to a car –...
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Musharraf knew Bin Laden in Pakistan: Who Else Did?
Pakistan’s former ISI chief General Ziauddin Khawaja, also known as Ziauddin Butt (head of the ISI, 1997-1999), claims that then President Pervez Musharraf knew about Osama bin Laden’s presence in...
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Narendra Modi: India’s Next Prime Minister?
Who would be the next Prime Minister of India where the General Elections are due in 2014? Indian leaders, ‘public intellectuals’ and the media are showing little interest in this subject as the...
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Joseph Allen Stein’s Birth Centenary: American Architect’s Imprint on New Delhi
Many rulers and architects have left behind their imprint on the historic Indian city of Delhi over the centuries. While a Mughal king’s artisans built an impressive Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi, the...
View ArticlePowerful words for Independence Day
Yesterday I posted about the protests going on at Independence Mall. This is a follow up. The young man I spoke with at the Veterans for Peace demonstration at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall wore a...
View Article“Democracy, as a system, requires an educated and participatory populace”
A comment about my “A Woman’s Response To Our Current Politics” post on TMV the other day talked about how democracy takes some critical thinking. I’ve been corresponding with Larry Swetman, an...
View ArticleThank Heaven We Don’t Have Canadian Style Healthcare #1
For years Americans have been bombarded with distortions and outright lies about Canada’s single payer health care system — all part of a right wing campaign to keep voters in this country from even...
View ArticleThank Heaven We Don’t Have Canadian Style Healthcare #2
In the bizarre world of American healthcare, my own personal healthcare angst hasn’t involved actual care – thank heavens. It has to do with the idiotic insurance system we have here in America. I’ll...
View ArticleThe really really BIG savings with Obamacare
“Addiction costs the nation over $480 billion each year…” according to a radio show I was half listening to the other day, mainly because I was too lazy to go over and turn it off. I was stunned by...
View ArticleOn The Road To Our Own Handmaid’s Tale?
Ages ago I read Margaret Atwood’s brilliant dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, about patriarchal religion gone nuts. Now in 2012 I just can’t help thinking that with the world sprouting nutty...
View ArticleFacts? We Don’t Need No Stinking Facts
Republicans are apparently not even pretending anymore that they’re telling the truth. The Big Lie seems to have unabashedly become their Official Policy. One Republican campaign pollster, Neil...
View ArticleIf Republicans Get Their Way, We Really Will All Be On Our Own
I was appalled by Mitt Romney’s remarks to wealthy donors implying that nearly half the nation is not worth caring about because they receive some form of government aid. But that’s me, my view, a...
View ArticleIf Republicans Get Their Way, We Really All Will Be On Our Own #2
I recently did a post under this title (http://themoderatevoice.com/160501/if-republicans-get-their-way-we-really-all-will-be-on-our-own/). It said, in essence, that these days Republicans seem to...
View ArticleLife Expectancy Shrinks for Less-Educated Whites in U.S.
The New York Times published an article today under that title. It reported that for the first time in generations life spans are contracting for some Americans. The “some Americans” here, according...
View ArticleWomen at the polls 2012
A lot of the political discourse and speculation in the 2012 election season is about the women’s vote. There seem to be a lot of questions about why women tend to favor the Democratic Party over the...
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