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...terror alert” status. Patriotic citizens around the country now raise both the American flag and the orange “high alert” flag of the Department of Homeland Security. Pundits and anchormen comb through our country’s weak spots and ask the questions that need to be answered, like whether our seaports are safe from oil tankers—which could clearly be used as torpedo missiles—and whether Air France should ever be allowed to enter the country’s airspace. In the recent stint of “high...
Ventura ruffled more than a few feathers when he told Playboy magazine that religion was a “sham and a crutch for weak-minded people...
...ensure that any coalition of reformist parties that succeeds in doing so will probably fall before the year is out, triggering another election. Reform-minded Serbs, still a majority but splintered among several parties, are glumly comparing their country to post WW-I Germany, when a series of weak governments gave way to the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. "We live in a Weimar reality," said Djordje Vukadinovic, a Belgrade political scientist. - By Andrew Purvis See: Going To Extremes Painful Progress PORTUGAL Prosecutors brought formal charges against 10 high-profile suspects held in preventive custody since early 2003 in connection...
...recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined to his bed for weeks, too weak to walk. His son suggested the cart, hoping that a little fresh air would energize his ailing parent. A few weeks later, the father was dead...
...China rises as a global power, the U.S. gets more desperate to engage it. As a result, the survival of oppressed peoples such as Tibetans and Uighurs end up being treated as taboo subjects. From Burma to Palestine, from Tibet to East Turkistan, the weak live in fear while the strong smile knowingly at each other and sign pacts to stay out of each other’s business...