Talents and accomplishment may reside anywhere; multi-talented people employed in one field have hobbies, passions and a sense of curiosity ...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is being discussed as a possible candidate for the first EU Council President. Assuming the Lisbon ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is a role model in many ways. It is great that many people are encouraged by his intelligence, his assorted skil...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently signaled a global pandemic level 6 for novel influenza A (H1N1), a viral illness spread mainly ...

Goal oriented? Accomplishment is great, but... Also cherish path!

When I was a schoolboy, we learned about three branches of American government, auditing & balancing each other: Executive , Legislative...

The US economic stimulus package has been a failure. Both Bush & Obama's governments sought to prop-up a fundamentally rotted system...

Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison. Much (some) stolen wealth has been recovered from his family. But Bernie took far m...

Is speculation true of active news suppression over the Chiasso bearer bond case? I'd like to taste good fortune! This post evaporates f...

Big capital has pushed and prodded the USA into a corner. The American people have been largely abandoned by our government (notwithstanding...

The Obama administration today rudely twisted arms to pass a huge war funding bill. The Democratic leadership has forgotten promises to end ...

Japan is a great place! It's world-leading in some ways. Could it be better?... certainly! I've lived in Japan for 13+ years, and no...

I formerly subscribed to Zagat Survey , an excellent review of restaurants, hotels, nightspots, etc., around the world. I also submitted man...

Haiku by Genki Distraction left me knowing "Something Was Just Lost" Then refreshing smell ------------------ Our world ain't ...

Having spent some years in South Korea, with three trips to the DMZ and once across, I'm often asked by friends in Europe & the USA ...

(poetry by Genki) I expend My lonely energies Building barriers Against Others Wrong race Bad nation Ugly Can't be trusted What threat B...

Media reports about Lee Seung-Eun (리승은 Euna Lee) & Laura Ling have been unfairly inflammatory. These two 'journalists' were arre...

I've lived in assorted countries as a student & teacher; over 28 years as a foreigner! (About 14 years in Japan & Korea as a rac...

Torture continues at Gitmo. Kidnapped people held by the USA at Guantanamo Bay are still held in bad conditions. These so-called "detai...

Bailing-out banks in the USA with public funds is a clear case of the average schmuck having to pay for his (her) own chains. What a racket!...

The Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting announced this week went to David Barstow of The New York Times for articles revealing Penta...

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney is today claiming that his government's tortures led to "success" -- he demands "wh...

The Bush government's effort to prosecute foreign detainees with secret military tribunals makes little sense in terms of vital operatio...

"We who have a voice must speak for the voiceless" - Óscar Romero, Roman Catholic Archbishop; later murdered by right-wing death ...

Some specifics of U.S. Government-sponsored torture have recently been released by the Obama administration. The fact that cruel & horri...

What's a Commie? Answering such a question was previously easy. They were enemies of America; we patriotically tried to to roll 'em ...

I hate to see government waste. I also dislike populist bullies, and those who build reputation by deceiving people. What of the folk who pu...

US President Barack Obama has thus far excused the illegal activities of the prior administration. He's doubtless busy with assorted cha...

(No - this isn't a political essay on Afghanistan / Iraq) We've just returned from a driving trip in Sardinia, where we came across ...

Here's an easy-to-read indictment of failure: Quotes & facts of the (now past) U.S. administration from the office of U.S. Rep. Sten...