Yemen is one of the most impoverished and religiously fundamentalist places on the planet. Its own government even understands the fact that urgent political and economic reforms are needed to fight the cancer that is al-Qaeda, slowly spreading throughout the nation. They recognize the fact that continued al-Qaeda militancy risks stability and will only bring [...]

  This is what is wrong with American Politics today. In what you are about to watch, there is no added left wing commentary; nothing but the host, Mr. Glenn Beck, and his introduction to a documentary broadcast by FOX News on January 22nd entitled”The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free 0r Die.”  Listen to Beck’s words, then watch the [...]

Last week, the United States Supreme Court made a decision, on a 5-4 vote, that corporations are entities with corporate personhood, and, as such, are allowed the rights of Free Speech.  This essentially reverses decades, if not a century, of precedence that understood fictional creations do not have even a close resemblance to people, and do [...]

I never make it through a day without thoughts of my grandfather crossing my ever-racing mind, but come January the comforting spectre of his presence is stronger than at any other time of year.  The son of Ukrainian immgrant born in the farmhouse his father built with his own hands, the same house where my father was born and raised, [...]

With the end of another decade and the storm of analysis and encapsulation that allows follows, I found it irresistible to offer up and summary of my own. But to sum up where we are now in Western Society, we first have to go back a good half century and connect the dots. Let’s start [...]

Anyone who knows me or RELATIVITY OnLine knows full well we have done our part to criticize and confront the numerous instances of stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda  incorporated by the global powers that be in terms of the Middle East. This writer has gone to great lengths to expose Israel’s occupation of Palestine as a [...]

  The Kite Runner, based in the international bestseller by Khaled Hosseini,  tells the story of an Afghan refugee turned writer, many years removed from his struggles to arrive in the United States,  who is overcome by an eruption of memory from his days as a child in Afghanistan. At it’s core, the story is about an upper-class 12 year-old Afghan boy named Amir, [...]

By way of background, the nation of Haiti experienced a 7.0 earthquake last week that resulted in massive devastation and death on an order that is not only incomprehensible, but improbable, from within the Western World, most especially America.  As could have been easily predicted, the United States federal government, along with a large number [...]

Make-up has been around for centuries, used by both men and women to beautify and improve upon their natural looks. Long ago the use of cosmetics were dangerous and could be fatal. Egyptians would use kohl to darken the eyes which often caused infections. Throughout the 19th century women often used lead oxide and carbonate as a way to whiten [...]

The Taliban’s recent assault on downtown Kabul, carried out by a timed series of explosives and suicide bombers, is yet another sign there is no use for The United States, Canada, the UK, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Australia and more to keep their troops in the country. It doesn’t matter if they leave tomorrow or of they [...]