Why does the UN need this? Sheila June 16, 2009 A ‘super agency for women’?! Yes. At United Nations (UN) headquarters this week, member states moved another step closer to Read More
Democracy in Iran Sheila June 13, 2009 The energized movement for social and political change in Iran has just been squelched. The government declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Read More
What Putin is up to Sheila June 11, 2009 Change has been coming to…Krgyzstan? Yes. Remember some news right around the time of President Obama’s inauguration that Read More
Global politics in flux Sheila June 9, 2009 Much of Europe held elections over the past week and weekend. And just as in the US elections last year, Read More
Mideast speech breakdown Sheila June 7, 2009 President Obama speech in Cairo last week has been largely hailed and hardly scrutinized. Here’s a bit of both, Read More
It must be true Sheila June 7, 2009 …if President Obama says it. Or so seems to be the mentality in mainstream media. But some ‘alternative media’ are Read More
While they’re still among us Sheila June 6, 2009 Honor the veterans of D-Day. There are fewer every year. Those who were there today witnessed the solemn and deeply Read More
Not looking for a diss Sheila June 5, 2009 However, it’s hard to understand why the Obama administration has not requested a papal meeting only weeks before the Read More
The force more powerful Sheila June 3, 2009 The human spirit. Twenty years ago he was the ultimate symbol of a peaceful democratic protest that went terribly, fatally Read More
Pardon the skepticism Sheila May 27, 2009 But what will be the consequences of the ‘world community’ saying to North Korea, ‘That does it, now you’ve Read More
