The greatest Christmas movie of all time is usually a toss up between Jimmy Stewart’s It a Wonderful Life or Alastair Sim’s A Christmas Carol. RELATIVITY OnLineweighs in on the side of good old Ebenezer Scrooge, an international and indelible icon of redemption. Originally written in 1843  by literary immortal Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol reminds [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Social networking tools as they exist today are changing how we think, work, learn and live. As during the last great split from the normative causalities of daily life illustrated during the Industrial Revolution, the entire template for daily living has been scrapped and replaced with a newly forming organic prototype. [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Pulitzer prize winning author and reporter Chris Hedges paid Canada’s CBC a visit to discuss the Occupy Wall Street Movement currently unfolding across the United States. Host Kevin O’Leary, apparently without any intelligent questions for his guest, first opened by insulting those in the movement and then moved on to insulting [...]

Ignoring American attempts to negotiate better Turkish-Israeli relations, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, in his appearance before the annual General Assembly last week, rolled out a long list of grievances with Israel – formerly an important Israeli ally in the region.  He strongly spoke out against Israel and put the full blame for [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Rape and assault or promiscuity and prostitution – this is the common two-pronged argument used by some Saudis to justify their law that prohibits women from driving. What happens if a car breaks down and a woman is alone? She could get assaulted and raped. Being out alone without a man [...]

We don’t pretend to have an in-depth knowledge of all the historical details of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict. History, as Joseph Conrad said, is little more than fiction. What we do know is that the current and ongoing Israeli occupation and its settlements policy are illegal and unnecessary. The Israeli occupation, as it stands [...]

Writer-director Qasim Basir is nothing less than compelling in his feature film debut, “Mooz-lum.”  In it he attacks Islamist extremism while giving moviegoers a rare and enlightening portrayal of life as a Muslim in America. There’s an indisputable strength to the raw melodrama of “Mooz-lum,” a tale from the heart indie that expresses itself in [...]

When we here at RELATIVITY Online first watched what has come to be known as the “eat da poo poo” video on Youtube, we broke down in tears from laughter. Even before anything is said, the anti-gay posters can be seen as the video clip begins. And then comes Pastor Ssempa. “My name is pastor [...]

Terrorism is the nightmare of our time and the ready made fuel for political melodramas of Hollywood and beyond.  The more we see of it, however, the less we know or understand. From the simplistic inclusion of the Arab bad guys in movies like “Iron Man,” to the textured character study of Pakistani culture in [...]

Can’t a terrorist like reading books about vampires and coming of age tales of teens? Terrorism Expert Omar Al-Farouq explains how Al-Qaeda’s love for the beloved teen vampire series prevented the death of thousands… or not really. Humor is sometimes the best defense against the world’s ills and the Onion is amongst the best in [...]