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The ill-effects of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Seeds in India
Iqbal Ahmed - 2/3/2012
Monsanto’s operation in India illustrates monopolization and manipulation of the market economy, tradition, technology, and misgovernance. The world’s largest producer of genetically engineered seeds has been selling genetically modified (GM) in India for the last decade to benefit the Indian farmers – or so the company claims.

Western Civilization
Ellis Washington - 2/3/2012
The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. ~ Goya

Nigerian Medley
Adewale T Akande - 2/3/2012
I. Boko Haram: The Dilemma of Human Ignorance, Religion Fideism and Failure of Leadership

The main foe of the mullahs in Iran
Shahriar Kia - 2/3/2012
The question still remains: after nine tumultuous years, what became of the treasure and blood, both American and Iraqi that was sacrificed in Iraq? With 2011 behind us, and US forces out of Iraq, new crises have erupted in Iraq - both on a political and security level. A new round of explosions has reaped of hundreds of lives among the innocent population of Iraq; and the cycle has yet to relent. All fingers are pointed at Iran. Leaders from Iraq’s opposition blocs, who have voiced concern over Iranian intervention, are openly despised by the nation’s Prime Minister, Noori al-Maliki, and eliminated arbitrarily under varying pretenses.

No Matter Who Wins, Americans Lose
Joel S. Hirschhorn - 2/3/2012
Why am I so sick of all the media attention to the Republican presidential primaries and all the blabbering about President Obama’s advantages and disadvantages for the coming election? I just cannot get excited. My answer may also be yours: No matter who wins, our nation loses.

American Issues: Unemployment, Romney, GOP
Prof. Peter Morici - 2/3/2012
I. Unemployment Falls to 8.3 Percent on Stronger Job Gains

Bodily Effects of Torture and Abuse
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 1/31/2012
There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and outcomes of torture.

German Greens and The Iranian Connection
David N. Neumann - 1/31/2012
Earlier this month, the Chair of German Parliament’s Human Rights Committee paid a fruitless trip to Iran. According to Iranian state media Thomas Koenigs, a German Green MP was even harshly criticized by Tehran for West’s “double standard policies” on human rights.

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