By Frank Salvato.   There is a sizeable faction in this country that is disgusted with the choices we have going into the 2016 General Election. While the choices are far from the quality a great nation like the United States deserves, [...]

  By Leon Hadar.   IN the aftermath of the release of the “Access Hollywood” videotape, in which Donald J Trump was heard making crude remarks about women, and the ensuing charges by several women that Mr Trump had sexually [...]

By Alan Singer.    During the third Presidential debate Donald Trump continued his vicious campaign denouncing women who charge him with sexual assault. He assaults them once again by calling them horrible, liars, and fame seekers. [...]

  By Julian French.   “The idea that the future will be different from the present is so repelling for our conventional way of thinking and for our behaviour that, at least the vast majority of us, if not all, pose a great resistance [...]

         By Barack Obama Mandela.   I am an African American attorney, and I am a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law–the oldest law school in California. I am also a military veteran and [...]

  By Barry Shaw.   UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted on 13th October against the very principles that it was created. UNESCO was founded in 1945 after World War Two to establish humanity’s [...]

  By Leon Hadar.   Moves to target Russia as global threat may prove to be self-fulfilling prophecy   Mr Putin is first and foremost committed to advancing Russia’s traditional national interests in Europe and the Middle [...]

By Ivan Eland.   The second presidential debate showed the poor choice American voters face in November’s election, at least on foreign policy. That was no clearer than on an issue that has vexed the Obama administration, and which [...]

By Allen Schmertzler.    Mark Twain noted, “one must travel, to learn,” and “broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”  So, [...]

By Alexander Athos.   Notorious hate preacher Sheikh Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa (aka Imam Bengharsa) has a master’s degree in theology, a degree in economics and had once worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce. Bengharsa [...]

By Leon Hadar.   It remains to be seen whether the Donald has succeeded in putting his crude remarks about women behind him, and whether he could regain political momentum There was very little doubt that Sunday’s showdown was the [...]

By Alan Singer.   Alan Singer Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of course, are my own This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post [...]

By Jamil Maidan Flores.   Asean has merely said what’s necessary to say. In the Chairman’s Statement of the 26th Asean Summit late last month, it says, “We share the serious concerns expressed by some Leaders on the land reclamation [...]

    By Leon Hadar.   The Donald excels in “hot” media formats like his rally addresses, but loses it in the “cool” medium of TV debates where he looks and sounds angry and unsteady. THE late communications [...]

  By Syed Qamar Rizvi.   It goes without saying that if the leadership of a country makes a wrong statement/claim or an impression just to gain its ulterior motive, not only damages its international image or clout but also punctures [...]

  TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior American peace activist and author said the killing of African American people by US police has its origins in the country’s foreign policy. In an interview with Tasnim, David Swanson, who is the director [...]

By Julian French.   “This parrot is dead. It is an ex-parrot”, says parrot-purchasing Monty Python’s John Cleese in the famous parrot sketch. “No, no, he’s not dead. He’s resting. Remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue”, replies [...]

By Robert J. Burrowes. As most of the world ignores or hypocritically celebrates the 147th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, some of us will quietly acknowledge his life by continuing [...]

  By Leon Hadar.       SO let’s say that you are a young, single woman, a lawyer working in a law firm in Manhattan, and let’s assume that you and your partner, who works in a financial company in the city, were [...]

    By Syed Qamar Rizvi.     It goes without saying that from the very day Narendra Modi took charge as India’s new Prime Minister, it has been an idee fixe of Modi’s government to demonstrate a military misadventure [...]