Martin Bentham, in Port-au-Prince 26.01.10 Medical workers in Haiti have warned they might have to stop operating on quake victims because they are running out of basic supplies. Staff at field...

Port-au-Prince - The death toll in the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince could reach 200,000, the Haitian government said Friday. "We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies," In...

Summary Even though President Obama is expected to preside over a new era of government transparency, it seems that the gears of the Pentagon's ‘message machine' are still turning.Robert Ga...

  There are some issues that should transcend partisan lines, particularly in a relatively wealthy and developed country such as the United States. There are matters that require debate be...

Who would know it on 18 March 1979 when the Soviet PM Alexei Kosygin and the Afghan President Noor Muhammad Taraki were having a telephonic conversation, where the latter was desperately begging f...

15 February was a historic day, a day which was as bright and sunny for the Afghans as it was dim and gloomy for the Russians. The news about depressed and dejected General Gromov, who, while walk...

After a day at work at Montgomery Fair department store, Ms. Parks boarded the bus on Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery. She occupied an empty seat reserved for blacks in the "col...

There is a certain naivety, almost a bluntness of intellect, when it comes to US foreign policy as it relates to  Muslim nations. Evidence for  the US misunderstanding of the challenges ...

If you are looking for a thematic to explain the current social malaise in modern-day America, you will need to become familiar with two distinct but inter-connected communal phenomena. The firs...

(New York) - US President Barack Obama delivered an eloquent defense of the national security reasons for respecting human rights in fighting terrorism, but his proposal to continue detaining terr...

Americans, or at least some of them, seem to have an aversion to becoming French. The right-wing see France and its pseudo-state capitalism as anathema to the free unregulated markets of the US.&n...

There appears to be a growing community of churches that believe Twitter has a role in the promotion of the word of God, or at least, their variant of it. Following the lead of what the right-wing...

A company that delivered contaminated vaccines with live avian flu and human flu viruses earlier this year is now to lead the charge for designing vaccines for the Mexican Swine Flu outbreak. Acc...

Sadly like many debates in the public realm, the important political discussion about the moral validity of the American Government sanctioning the use of torture, has become debased by deconstruc...

Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which i...

A classic error made by some political scientists (and journalists) is to equate, or in some instances linguistically make interchangeable, a policy tool with an ideology. Many of the issues und...

poverty_next_to_privilege There is something intrinsically troubling in there being 37 million people living below the poverty line in one of the top ten richest countries in the world. While the...

The planned conservative Tea Party protests against Obama economic policies to be staged next week are proof-positive of the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern American conservative movement....

If you look at the majority of the world's trouble spots -Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Israel, to name just a few - there are key elements of commonality. The main factors to look for are n...

Even a civilian posting in Defense carries serious risks. Robert Gates, a President Obama appointment, sits on the government side of the aisle as Defence Secretary, and this therefore makes him ...

Tony Benn, the British politician, made an interesting assertion that there are only two types of politicians, and that the delineation has nothing to do with party membership or political affilia...

The implied social contract that governs our democratic involvement has changed. In an increasingly complex, inter-connected, and rapid-pace world this is perhaps inevitable, but is worthy of note...

The headline screaming from conservative columnist Michelle Malkin's blog today, is a prime example of profiling as an enabler of sloppy journalism - her headline reads, "Muslim TV exec pleads ...

To read the original article with graphics and live links please visit http://mydailyclarity.com The media loves to expose and espouse failure. The ideological blogs and forums relish finding fau...

A contentious issue around net neutrality and citizen journalism is buzzing in the cyberactivism world. There is emerging evidence that some US blog web hosts are systematically denying services t...

Having survived a nightmare of torture and incarceration in Syria, Canadian citizen Maher Arar is now suffering an attack on his reputation, this time in testimony by an FBI agent at Guantanamo Ba...

The American film director Oliver Stone is on tour in Latin America for his film on Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez. The American magazine Variety published on his intentions to make a do...

Americans deserve, as members of a free and democratic country, to be able to deliberate fully over the key issues of the day without risk of censure for voicing a view that does not fit with acc...

As Bush steps down from the world stage to begin a private life of retirement, there are many that will criticize his Presidency. He has shaped a future for the US that many believe will be detrim...

Every two years in the very beginning of January the Devil's Carnival is organised in the village of Riosucio, in the west of Colombia. Groups of beautifully dressed up people dance in the parades...

One of the industries that does not seem overly affected by the global economic recession is the illegal drug trade. Focusing close to the US border only,the Drug Intelligence Center estimates tha...

BOGOTÁ - December 12 - Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez wants to reelected eternally, although he already is in his third term. Opposition against Chávez is growing, among po...

BOGOTÁ - Dec 11 - Members of the leftist guerrillamovement FARC who desert and rescue hostages should not be put in jail, Colombia's president Álvaro Uribe said today. According to C...