Gurtong Peace Project: A South Sudanese Diaspora coalition for the promotion of peace and stability
The project aims at bridging the gap between different cultures and allowing the Sudanese Diaspora to make a significant contribution to the search for unity and peace. Knowledge of the people living in South Sudan and respect for their cultural identity is a major objective of the Gurtong Peace Project.
Lessons Learned from Formation of the Government of National Unity (GONU) in Sudan
The formation of the Government of National Unity (GONU) in Sudan on 20 September 2005 after several weeks of heated debates between National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement(SPLM) have revealed four important lessons which the SPLM leadership must carefully study and take some actions on
Peaceful Assault on the Epicenter of Evil
I arrived home on Sunday from the peace and social justice rally in Washington DC and began reflecting. As my mind sifted through the barrage of information which came at me over the course of the weekend, and the information I absorbed while reading on the plane, I began to reach some conclusions and to connect some dots...
BRIDGES: News on Cuba and Latin America
The Dominican Republic´s latest statistics show an ailing education system with more than 100,000 dropouts and 117,000 repeaters during the 2004 education year.The latest official statistics considers 7th the largest dropout grade with more than 10 out of every 100 students; 9.5 per cent in 6th grade and 1.8 per cent in 8th grade.
DeLay Indictment: Groups Call for DeLay's Ouster
Republican Rep. Tom DeLay (TX) should resign his position in Congress, not just his leadership role, say Washington corruption watchdog groups. According to a House Ethics Committee complaint... TRMPAC officials solicited funds from Texas-based energy company Westar. E-mails and internal memos show that DeLay and Westar communicated about donations, and that money was subsequently given to TRMPAC...
Bill Frist: The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate
It's one thing to lie in politics. It's another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader?...According to an Associated Press report Saturday, Frist “received regular updates of transfers of assets to his blind trusts and sales of assets. He also was able to initiate a stock sale of a hospital chain founded by his family with perfect timing.
Science vs. Intelligent Design
Early in the 19th Century, Napoleon asked a prominent scientist about the existence of God. The scientist’s famous response was that that was not a question that we had to ask. He didn’t mean that it was a question that couldn’t be answered by science...He meant that the questions that science asks and builds upon have nothing to do with religion.
Chomsky's New Book
Imagine you could take years and years to carefully study political history, that you could read numerous sources of political news from around the world, that you could do your own research into declassified government documents and little known areas of information...Chomsky knows an incredible amount of information and is brilliant at analyzing it. He does so without any theory or pretense, using a vocabulary that any high school graduate has mastered.
Climate change catastrophe threatening humankind
The world faces enormous changes in weather patterns and other natural phenomena. These changes have resulted from the emission of man-made pollutants from traditional, non-renewable fuels such as coal and oil in energy production.
Book Review: Schwarzenegger Syndrome by Gary Indiana
COMPARING the destruction of the twin towers with the Reichstag fire is not likely to win you any accolades in US government circles, but then Gary Indiana is not out to win praise from them.
