Recently, (Oct. 28 to be specific) there was a LGBT march that happened in Taiwan, and it was the largest one held in Asia!

Personally, I attended and walked in the march for about an hour, and ...

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This is the true story of a writer and author from India, Karoor Soman(കാരൂർ സോമൻ)who, represents the human spirit of passion, who had courage to stand up to 300+ cyberbullies or online liars, hara...

Karoor Soman, author and writer of more than 40 books was startled to hear from his friend that a blogger of “huge reputation” had posted a facebook video rant against Karoor Soman and one of his b...

In his recent book, James Comey was pretty gentle in his treatment of Donald Trump. He likens Trump's approach to governing to a mob boss, but doesn't make the point with much force.

"As I fou...

With the visit to Beijing by Kim Jong-un, it's looking more likely that a Trump-Kim summit will take place.
The meeting may even take place in Beijing.
Getting a North Korea deal is important t...

C'mon. This doesn't need to happen. If Apple can build a bazillion dollar headquarters down the road, somebody can come up with the peanut shells to keep the Oasis open.

The news broke a couple ...

A new foreign policy podcast that's profane, thoughtful and reflexively anti-Trump.  

I'm sure you have all heard about Logan Paul and his public scandal of posting a video of a suicide body in the Japanese suicide forest on Youtube. Logan Paul is a youtube vlogger (video blogger), ...

I turn on my computer and see this.
At least 235 people killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the country's northern Sinai Peninsula. 120 wounded. The deadliest attack of this kind in E...

People are angry that the Russians interfered in the 2016 US elections. Rightly so. The idea that Putin's Kremlin worked to put a thumb on the scales is almost unthinkable. But are elections fair...

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are officially back together?? What?? It has been quite a while before the pair split up in 2011. They were on and off for 5 years!!
This below is Jelena before 

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I guess I was looking for something harder-edged.  
Actually, that's a pretty safe bet. The best politico-econo-philosophy books I've read in recent years have all been more confrontational.
I ...

 
In a Real News Network report Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff, Lawrence Wilkerson makes good points about who will get hurt by reversing the changes in Cuba relations. Besides the larger ...

Professor Richard D. Wolff provides a weekly tour of current issues in economics.