10 January 2014
Cosmetic Surgery
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Robert C. Koehler
“In Iraq, al-Qaeda launched an offensive to take control of two cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, that U.S. troops sacrificed heavily to clear of terrorists between 2004 and 2008.”

And so the new year begins, with a heavy dose of...
30 December 2013
Anti-election protesters unable to stop Thailand's candidates
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police stood by while hundreds of people laid siege to the Election Commission's office, a police station, and Thailand's equivalent of the U.S. FBI, but the protesters failed to stop candidates registering for a...
28 December 2013
Anti-election protests paralyze Bangkok
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- More than 100,000 anti-election protesters paralyzed Bangkok's key intersections on Sunday (Dec. 22) to hear their leader, an alleged multiple-murderer, demand February's nationwide poll be cancelled so he can ban the...
18 December 2013
Memories of South Africa
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Joel S. Hirschhorn
Earlier this year I had the great pleasure to visit South Africa. Compared to most Americans, the passing of Nelson Mandela brought tears to my eyes many times as I recalled being in many of the places being shown on countless news shows...
18 December 2013
Love letter to friends on Jeju Island
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r Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul
Dear friends on Jeju Island : Sung Hee, Paco, Silver, Sister Stella, Dr Park and many others at Gangjeong Village,
I lived in a gorgeous agricultural village in Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan for seven years and like yourselves on...
18 December 2013
U.S.-Trained Army supports Thailand's election & opposes insurrection
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's U.S.-trained military appears to support next February's endangered election, and oppose a right-wing insurrection bent on destroying the government, seizing power, blacklisting politicians, and cancelling...

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