Cleaning is freedom

" Your own problems in life can get in the way of your freedom" It's not about anything in particular, is about everything which makes the soul dirty. You cannot be free without cleaning your soul.

Elections in Malaysia

“NO TO racism, no to corruption,” bellows Anwar Ibrahim from a stage in front of 50,000 delirious supporters, braving heavy rain to acclaim their idol in Penang. It is the last week of campaigning before Malaysia’s general election on May 5th and the leader of the opposition has been criss-crossing the country to shore up his support and make inroads into government territory. The task before Mr Anwar (pictured) is one of the most daunting in the annals of modern democracy: to unseat the world’s longest continually elected governing coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN). It has ruled Malaysia since independence from Britain in 1957.

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Worker's Day

Hundreds of thousands marked May Day--also known as International Workers Day--in dozens of countries across the world. Protesters marched against austerity and demanded higher wages, better benefits, and improved working conditions. The actions took place just one week after a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh served as a grim reminder of the dangers of lax safety regulations in poor countries.

Obama’s weakness keeps Guantanamo open

It is a testament both to the scale of the legal and moral morass it represents and president’s persistent inability to translate his words into action For the men and women involved in running the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, it must have been disconcerting, to say the least, to have heard their Commander-in-Chief share his personal views on their little corner of Cuba quite so bluntly. “Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe ,” he said last Tuesday. “It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing.

Sickness in a sea of symbols

Symbolic culture is the realm where human beings inhabit. Currency systems, religious beliefs, language, etc are artifacts we have created in order to operate in social life. The question is whether it is the only way to interact with reality...

Moscow? Russia? Is it safe to live there?

This is the response I often receive when people learn I spend half of the year in Moscow. Many people from the U.S. assume that Russia is a dangerous place and that I, as a single female, should not attempt to live there. When my daughter visited me in 2004 and saw the exterior of my Stalin-era apartment building she gasped and said, "Mother, I can't believe you are living in a place like this!"Even boxer Mike Tyson shook his head when he came to see me and said, "This is really bad. It's like where I grew up in the slums of Brooklyn."

criminality

We live in a world where we have to remain on muggers, thieves and deceivers… in the evening you dare not on the street, you stay inside and do not open the door when the doorbell rings…

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For Germans There Is No Alternative to the Euro

Nobody asked the German people if they wanted the euro. Now, almost 15 years after Europe introduced its common currency, a new political party has emerged to campaign for a return to the deutschmark.

Guns in Restaurants? Guns on Campus?

About those Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly who want a new law making it OK for concealed-carry permit holders to take their guns into restaurants where liquor is sold: They want to go back to the Wild West, right?

Space Shuttle Enterprise's New Home

Space shuttle Enterprise, NASA's test orbiter destined for display in New York City, will soon have a new home.

Obama 'red line' on Syrian chemical weapons gets a bit grayer

President Obama has said Syria's use of chemical weapons would be a 'red line.' Evidence is mounting, but Obama's desire for an international response throws prospects for action into doubt.

Unfettered bigotry

Syrian militants have set free the two Orthodox Christian clergymen who were kidnapped earlier this week, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper reports.

Is Obama Appalled by His Own Anti-Terrorism Policies?

“I continue to believe that we’ve got to close Guantanamo,” said President Barack Obama at yesterday’s news conference. “The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are.”

What options does Obama have to close Guantanamo?

With his renewed vow to close the detention camp for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama has effectively assigned himself a list of possible ways to take the prison's population down from 166 to zero. Some would be more easily achieved than others.