Gripe/Opinion

By:-Dow Marmur The non-specific call a few weeks ago to Americans and others to be vigilant when travelling in Europe sounded like a version of the classic telegram: “Bad news — start worrying — letter […] […]

AND Tehran will get worse if it builds a nuclear weapon. CAN anyone doubt the danger of Iran’s relentless drive to become the regional hegemon? The Iranians are funding Afghan President Hamid Karzai as well […] […]

By:- Michael Geist This week hundreds of privacy regulators, corporate officers and activists gathered in Jerusalem for the annual Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner Conference. The conference focused on the perception of a growing privacy […] […]

By Sandra:-MYGRIPE Following the discovery of an explosive device being shipped to the US, are we now going to see an increase in violence activities from Al-Qaida. Since 9/11 the world has been on tender-hooks, […] […]

THE mayor of the Italian town of Castellammare di Stabia has banned women from wearing short skirts, low-slung jeans and plunging necklines. He maintains that it’s an attempt to guard against anti-social behaviour and is […] […]

A must read Are you poor or do you know anyone who is? I am wondering whether this maligned group has considered the benefits of a really good PR consultancy. Last week’s Comprehensive Spending Review […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE The execution by militant Islamic fanatics of two girls ages 15 and 18 is one of the worse acts of human depravity that I have come across and it makes me physically sick […] […]

By:Haroon Siddiqui’ Political and media reaction to the biggest-ever leak of secret war documents is misguided. Getting tangled up in whether WikiLeaks was ethical or not in releasing 391,000 documents on Iraq, and whether that […] […]

AIRING honest views builds tolerance. NATIONAL Public Radio former analyst Juan Williams has learned an important lesson: beware the M-word. Williams, fired from his radio job for an offhand remark he made about Muslims on […] […]

WORSE than Saddam. That’s how a British newspaper columnist, writing after the publication by WikiLeaks of secret files on the war in Iraq, has, apparently seriously, described the action of the US-led forces that invaded […] […]