America's Privileged are Corrupt

I am sad, ruefully sad, about the unconscionable corruption born of the unimaginable greed of America’s privileged. Corporate titans are repulsively corrupt. Bureaucratic bigwigs are hideously corrupt. Political demigods are appallingly corrupt. Famous journalists are shockingly corrupt.

There is a way to stop this corruption: Americans should become French for a few days. They should take to the streets in thousands, everywhere--in Boston, in Chicago, in Denver, in Houston, in Los Angeles, in New York City, in San Francisco, in Seattle, in Washington, D.C. and in Wisconsin.

Fareed Zakaria's (American) Definition of Moderates

In his recent column “What Makes Ahmadinejad Smile?” Fareed Zakaria uses the words “moderate Arabs” more than once to identify the regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.

Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are repressive regimes. One has to wonder what motivated a reputable journalist to humiliate himself by designating those repressive regimes as moderate regimes.

A Smart Way to Promptly Stimulate Consumer Demand

For any stimulus package to seriously jolt the economy into action, consumers need to promptly spend the funds the government provides them. In order for consumers to spend their entire stimulus benefits, they must run to markets, stores and outlets to make purchases. When consumers rush to retailers to make purchases,

The stimulus package must become a direct catalyst to motivate people to patronize markets, malls and outlets to insert additional demand into the economy. The smarter solution is to provide people vouchers to buy consumer necessities and consumer durables at no cost or reduced cost, instead of providing tax rebates and tax cuts.

The Dead Crowded the Living

The picture was a gruesome close up, but the story is the same, a vignette of recurring history, powerful barbarians brutally massacring powerless barbarians. This time the powerful barbarians were Israeli Jews and the powerless barbarians were Palestinian civilians.

Israel’s latest invasion has one crucial difference, a contemporary difference, a vicious difference from past invasions. This time Israel was testing for confirmation to its newer approach, an inhuman narrative and a violent paradigm. Israel’s focus was to kill as many civilian Palestinians as possible so that the remaining civilians would turn against Israel’s adversary, Hamas.

Is the United States Becoming a Ridiculous Republic?

The advancement of a nation is measured by each small issue that it handles successfully. The greatness of a nation lies in its scrupulous attention to moral clarity in addressing problems of unequal justice.

When it comes to the question of equal justice, equal opportunity and equal fairness, America certainly is not ahead of most of the world’s other countries. Compared to a person from an influential family, an individual from a disadvantaged family has to work several times harder. With rare exceptions, the justice system in America is invariably and inevitably lenient on influential individuals and harsh on disadvantaged people. By the way, that is the way it is in Egypt, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Brown People Nations Are More Inept Than Blonde People Nations

Nations of blonde people (NsBeP) are economically advanced and affluent. Nations of brown people (NsBnP) are economically backward and poor. The crucial measure of greatness of an individual or a nation is economic affluence.

South Asia is inhabited by brown people, tormented by degrading poverty, dissipated by mutual loathing and dominated by powerful outsiders. Profound changes are required to achieve accelerated development and cherished dignity. The only prompt way to achieve such changes would be to form a union, the South Asian Union (SAU), among the nations of South Asia.

Barack Obama Will Fail to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict

No unprecedentedly daring and wise move on the part of Barack Obama is unlikely to solve the Israeli - Palestinian conflict since he allowed himself to be checkmated by the selection of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanuel to be his three most powerful aides, all of whom are adherents of Zionism, advocates of a Greater Israel and supporters of Israel’s hunger for strategic supremacy.

Barack Obama’s lack of vision and perspective on the hurdles presented by selecting those three individuals will prevent him from fashioning an inimitable legacy of solving the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

I Won't Eat Broccoli 'cuz I Don't Like Mommy

Oh, Lord Ravana! That Blagojevich sounded corrupt. He sounded base, corrupt and vile, and corrupt some more.

The reality is that a dense and corrupt politician did an admirable thing, appointing a fine public servant and a good man with no taint and with bipartisan praise to the Senate seat. Instead of saying Hosanna to what Blagojevich did, people are being vindictive and shortsighted simply because they don’t like Blagojevich.

Iran Will Not End its Nuclear Weapons Program

Iran is not going to be talked out of its resolve to become a nuclear-armed nation because it is in perpetual fear of an awaiting attack by the U.S. and Israel that seeks regime change. Iran considers the developing of nuclear weapons to be the only effective defense of its national security, and the only real deterrent against military and nuclear threat from the U.S. and Israel. .

The argument against Iran becoming nuclear-armed is logically unsustainable. Its prima facie thrust seems to be that of keeping intact Israel’s monopoly in nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The nations that are standing steadfast against Iran’s acquisition of nukes are those nations that already have nuclear weapons. In the past, those nations did not succeed in denying such a right to India, Pakistan and North Korea. Furthermore, appallingly, those nations were accomplices when Israel was developing its own nuclear capability.

Send Predator Drone: Kill Robert Mugabe

What is happening in Zimbabwe is not an African issue. It is a human issue. I have every right to feel the pain of a Zimbabwean as a Zambian or Tanzanian. We are all in it together because we are all a part of humanity. The United States, the United Kingdom and France have as much right as any country in Africa to speak against the oppression and starvation of the people of Zimbabwe. It is not an African problem, and to say so is arcane, xenophobic and racist in thought and perspective.

In the cost benefit perspective, the killing of 50 people to save two millions from starvation, epidemic, oppression and brutality is morally and spiritually justified.I ask George W. Bush to send a few Predator drones to Zimbabwe and kill Mugabe and his close associates, possibly numbering not more than 50 people. Incidentally, that would offer George W. Bush a wonderful chance to atone for a small part of his accumulated sins.