Gripe/Opinion

By Sandrea:-OPINION There is an expectation that once you reach the pensionable age that you are going to live your life quietly, do the gardening, look after the grandchildren, go to places that you have […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE The three Americans that are currently languishing in Iran jail are being used by the Iranians as nothing more than political football.  Iran authorities know dam well that these young people are no […] […]

By Sandrea:-OPINION Although I agree that the current airport screening policy that are in effect at US airport are intrusive, uncomfortable and leave the recipient with a feeling of been violated, one has to measure […] […]

By:- Craig Silverman Let’s travel back to July of 2008. I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry was on the radio, the Summer Olympic Games were soon to get underway in Beijing, and The Dark […] […]

By Sandrea:-OPINION Most of us could not bear to be in our house for twenty-four hours unable to go outside because of the fear of being arrested, yet Aung San Suu Kyi had to endure […] […]

THE international community must gently coax the regime towards democracy. BURMA’S Aung San Suu Kyi, a diminutive, slight woman of uncertain health, has become a universal moral symbol. She has attained the kind of global […] […]

ACROSS the world, left-wing governments are struggling in the wake of the GFC. (Global financial crisis) IT wasn’t meant to be this way. When the global financial crisis hit, politicians and activists on the Left […] […]

By:-J. Scott Carpenter and Matthew Levitt PROGRAMS that contest extremist narratives are vital. THE recently foiled parcel bomb plot, tied to al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula, demonstrates today’s persistent terror threat from abroad. Yet Western […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE Who the hell does Pauline Hanson thinks she is, what an effrontery talking about she would not stay in the UK because it is overrun with immigrants and refugees.  She’s got a nerve, […] […]

By:-Michael Auslin THE President should bring together leading liberal nations in the region. PRESIDENT Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are in Asia this week, dragging large business delegations on visits to India […] […]