As Congress moves to renew and expand the Patriot Act this week, possibly giving the FBI more powers to investigate the personal lives of U.S. citizens without judicial approval, we should ask ourselves - has freedom finally fallen to the fatalistic tandem of fear and security?
In response to an article I wrote in wake of the French "no" vote, a reader commented that I had simply produced "another article not asking why this constitution was rejected". In many ways, he was correct: irrespective of whether you thought the result was positive or negative, people ended up focusing on the consequences, but nobody really looked into why it really happened.
Much has been made of this year's G8 summit. For weeks, Scotland -- the host of the 2005 meeting -- braced itself for what many hoped would be a historic turning point in ensuring the future health of our planet and in helping the fight against poverty in Africa. So what did it produce?
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Asian leaders organize for “great game”
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – The leaders of Russia, China and four Central Asian states held a two-day anti-terrorism summit in Kazakhstan last week, amidst criticism of growing U.S. influence in the region. The meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brought together Russia and China, which jointly issued a "21st century world order" communiqué opposing any one state’s "domination of international affairs," and the leaders of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia had observer status.
Today it's fashionable to recall Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights hero and passionate reverend. But sadly, amidst his legacy the entirety of his intellectual prowess and vast philosophical wisdom often goes unrecognized. Particularly troubling, King has become a tool for a variety of causes wrongly associated with him, including the attack on the separation of church and state.
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