November 2005 Archives

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NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Thursday condemned the killing of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) driver Ramankutty Maniappan in Afghanistan.

THE PRIEST who presided over the marriage of Vedavati Choudhury and Navin Jana wasn’t your regular bare-chested, thread baring, Dhoti-clad and pot-bellied Brahmin. Her name is Avadhutika Ananda Krishnaprana.

Ananda Marga moves away from prevelant social practice of men being torchbearers and believes in giving an equal platform to women.

Here is a simple chronology of the evolution of humanism, a concept found in early Greek civilization that grew during the Roman Empire and continued to evolve over the centuries until the 20th century where some say it died, or converted to anti-humanism as a result of the writings of Sartre, Nietsche and Heidegger among other existentialists. Zagorin proposes a new kind of humanism wherein the focal point is fundamental human rights. Sarkar proposes a still more revolutionary form of humanism which redefines it as Neo-Humanism for the 21st century, with its focal point being the devotional principle, the mindset that we value not only humans but all living beings and even the geological crust of the earth. To achieve this Neo-Humanist mindset, a complete transformation in the heart of humanity is required.

An enormous, hidden holocaust is beginning to emerge with more clarity from amongst the friendless memories of history. This one was not against Jews or Armenians, but against Ukrainians. With the consistency of spring water percolating up from the ground, it is becoming more and more certain that the numbers of Ukrainians deliberately killed by the government of the former Soviet Union ranks as one of the worse forms of persecution in human history......Read More

October 18, 2005

Written by: Andy Wilcoxson

Slobodan Milosevic completed his re-examination of Col. Bogoljub Janicevic, the former chief of the Urosevac SUP, at the Hague Tribunal on Tuesday.

Milosevic began by questioning Col. Janicevic about satellite photos of Racak that the prosecution had exhibited.

What Hollywood produces is sometimes the exact opposite of reality. In the context of a film review, the following article shows the relatively higher violence of a melting pot society like the U.S. compared with the still more or less non-melting pot societies of Iceland and the rest of Scandinavia even though the film itself suggests the opposite. The film discussed also portrays Icelanders as mean and violent people in order to make American society appear more virtuous. Finally, the author recommends the development of law so as to make the politicians legally liable for negligence or malfeasance under criminal law for documented increases in crime rates that are the result of pursuing melting pot policies.