Former President Bill Clinton spoke in Chicago this past Saturday at the India Institute of Technology's Global Conference 2009. The focus of his spe...
Lost in the inflammatory rhetoric is what our government and its dedicated public servants accomplish every day -- the delivery of vital services to deal with seemingly intractable problems.
The franchise has been successfully relaunched, which Roddenberry's son Rod is hoping will bring a whole new generation of fans to the series.
The arrival of a brand new towering white Dream Hotel in India seemed to be raising some questions when it opened to a lavish fanfare last Sunday.
After the terrorist attacks on Mumbai on November 26, 2008, tensions between India and Pakistan were ratcheted up almost instantly. While the involvem...
Obama's mentioning in his inauguration speech of some of the world's great religions can be seen as recognition not just of the people who follow them, but that religion is an immense cultural resource.
In September, the economic stability of the world as we know it was eroding under the Bush administration's feet. Slipping and sliding, they were worried about the money, and you never put it at risk.
Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...
Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news at the local level. By Syed Ali Mujtaba Syed Despi...
More than six weeks after the terror attacks on Mumbai, Pakistan continues, disingenuously, to express skepticism over India's evidence and to disclaim complicity.
Barack Obama is like a relief pitcher who was brought in to pitch with his team down by about ten runs and is somehow expected to lead them to victory.
As we enter the last month of the Bush presidency, progressives around the country are increasing in giddiness. Given the president's legion mistakes ...
Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news from the ground up. By Imran Schah NEW DELHI-- US Secreta...
Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. By Ajmer Alam Wani JAMMU/ISLAMABAD/NE...
The announcement to 'go Sharia' is usually made at a mosque, by decree, at Friday prayers. Sharia is imposed by those who have the power and the weapons to tell people how they will live.
We were quick to spot the similarities between some Indian and American reactions to 26/11 and 9/11 respectively, especially from the Right, but we failed to see the differences.
In response to the Mumbai attacks, Facebook and other online social networks are flooded with communities, discussion groups, and individual members convening online to speak out with an amplified voice.
On New Years Day, we think that we have got rid of all the things that made 2008 a bad year, and 2009, just like a new born baby, has endless potential for good, for refreshing the human spirit.
In Afghanistan we find a bloody quagmire so hopeless that ordinary Afghanis are not sure who to fear more -- the American occupiers or the often ruthless Taliban.
As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.
10. Jews feel the financial and image pain of Wall Streeter Bernie Madoff as his money lies damage Yeshiva University and Elie Weisel as well as sma...
