Peeling The Cosmic Onion – The Cosmic Kiss
From India Corespondent Divyaa Kummar… Conjure, if you will, the cosmic out-breath as ‘our’ in-breath, and ‘our’ out-breath as the cosmic in-breath… THE COSMIC KISS…! Come beloveds, take a deep breath in… and a deep breath out… breathe in, breathe out… breathe in, breathe out… and become aware that actually it is not ‘you/me’ that [...]
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Nutty Little Kim
From David Anthony Hohol… The likelihood of North Korea attacking South Korea is so very small, despite all the incendiary rhetoric coming from Kim Jong-un since January. The chance of him attacking the United States is zero. He is a spoiled brat who wants attention from the world and what irks this writer most [...]
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The Invasion of Women
From Ugandan Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… The renowned South African anti-apartheid activist and Co-Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, had declared her intentions to jump into South Africa’s elective politics. Under her newly formed political platform; ‘Agang,’ which is Setswana for ‘Let’s build,’ she’s plotting to metamorphose it into a political party. That [...]
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Resistance Is Futile
From James O’Hearn… I came across a great article in Slate, - Why Johnny Can’t Add Without a Calculator by Konstantin Kakaes. The argument, in simple terms, is that what we really need to teach math is paper, pens, an old fashioned blackboard, and a textbook that is at least a decade or so older than the students. [...]
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Top Ten Muhammad Ali Quotes
From David Anthony Hohol… Muhammad Ali’s part time job was being the 3-time heavyweight Champion of the world. In reality, he was a politician, a diplomat, a social activist, a poet and a living breathing inspiration to people around the world. Before or since, there has never been an individual who has fused sports and [...]
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Make Your Move
From Tom Megginson… Make Your Move Missoula is “a group of community organizations dedicated to ending sexual violence” in Montana, USA. The positive message of standing up against rape culture is reminiscent of a trend we’ve been tracking by the American Association of University Women, The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, and Sexual [...]
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The Root Of All Evil
From David Anthony Hohol… On April 16th, 2013 an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale rattled Iran, causing millions of dollars in damage, killing 34 people and seriously injuring many more. The country in suffrage, the Islamic Republic’s Clerical Leadership addressed the nation to help comfort the wounds. “Many women who do not dress modestly [...]
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Bangladesh Burning
From Bangladesh Corespondent Rezwan… Bangladesh has more 4,000 ready-made clothes factories of different sizes, which are earning more than three-quarters of the countries export revenue. The world’s third-largest garments export industry employs more than 3 million workers, 90% of whom are women. Over two decades these garments factories contributed to changing the role of poor [...]
Posted in Home Page, Simply Rezwan
High Times
From South African Corespondent Hassan Isilow… Its 2pm on Saturday afternoon in Bellville and several people are lining up opposite the bus station to buy a stimulant called khat which is in its leaf form. Although the stimulant is illegal in South Africa, it has been openly sold on the streets of Bellville over the [...]
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January Spring
From Philippines Congressman Mong Palatino… So far, it has been an awful beginning for the year 2013 in Southeast Asia: Myanmar’s military launched airstrikes against Kachin rebels which dimmed hopes of a peaceful settlement of the civil war; prominent Laos activist Sombath Somphone has remained missing and has probably become a victim of state-sanctioned enforced disappearance; [...]
Posted in Home Page, Mong's Musings
City Of Women
From Saudi Arabian Corespondent Eman Al Naafjan… This past decade unemployment in Saudi has kept increasing despite the several plans and projects made by the education ministry, civil services and the ministry of labor. Numbers vary from one source to another with government research usually being the smaller of the bunch. But even the government’s numbers are [...]
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Darling Arusha
From Tanzanian Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano... I had wanted to write something about our Arusha’s new status, that of its now being crowned a city, notwithstanding its sickening traffic jams; its garbage heaps and rotten drainage systems; its unreliable power and water supply systems; its foul smelling public markets; and its dilapidated public school structures [...]
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