Growing up in the 60s with all the music from Beatles to Rock' n 'Rolls, I gravitate more to folk songs by Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. The song "Where have all the flowers gone" is always one of my favorites. Today with the younger generation or millennials questioning all the values, knocking all heroes from their pedestals, decry all politicians for their failure to be … [Read more...] about Where have all the Flowers/Heroes gone?
Archives for June 2016
Extremely biased Aljazeera program
Extremely biased by Aljazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F821Fe2_wBk If you get the message «The uploader has not made this video available to your country», try http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/headtohead/2015/01/transcript-dr-zhang-weiwei-150130115930963.html ... «Interviewer»: Mehdi Hasan (born in the UK) «Guest»: Zhang Weiwei, professor of … [Read more...] about Extremely biased Aljazeera program
Blowback: America’s Failed Foreign Policy Comes Full Circle
In the wake of the worst shooting massacre in Orlando nightclub, we start seeing mass killings done by mentally sick individuals change to ISIS sympathizers. It started from the 2015 San Bernardino shooting whose roots come from Pakistan and this shooting comes from a person whose roots come from Afghanistan. Countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan were significantly … [Read more...] about Blowback: America’s Failed Foreign Policy Comes Full Circle
Is «the tank man»-story true?
As we all know – every year around June 4th, Western media has stories about «the tank man» – like then The New York Times first printed «the tank man»-photo, and wrote: «A single man stopping a column of tanks rumbling toward Tian’anmen Square». Similar narrative has been repeated by Western news outlet every year since 1989. TIME magazine even declared «the tank man ... one … [Read more...] about Is «the tank man»-story true?
German parliament votes to recognize Armenian genocide
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about how Germany has cheapened its own history and disregarded its own humanity by turning a blind eye on Japan's horrific crimes against humanity in China on the eve of the 77th anniversary of the Nanking massacre. In that piece, I wrote how Germany may not be preaching "universal values" per se, but politically-expedient political … [Read more...] about German parliament votes to recognize Armenian genocide