Submitted by Philip Power In the British West Indies much of the early capital to finance White slavery came from Sephardic Jews from Holland. They provided credit, machinery and shipping facilities. In the 1630s Dutch Jews had been deeply involved in the enslavement of the Irish, financing their transport to slave plantations in the tropics. […]
Two persistent problems have rumbled through our “democratic” past. One we can trace back to Franklin and Jefferson and their longing to dismiss class by touting “exceptional” features of the American landscape, which are deemed productive of an exceptional society. T
By Dr. Najem Al Ahmad for Veterans Today Elections are the best way to practice democracy. In order to achieve the desired results in a realistic manner that is not tainted by fraud, the need for sound management was to ensure that the vote of the voter arrives in its correct framework, and to guarantee the […]
Asif Haroon Raja The foundations of Pakistan-US relations were laid in 1954 when Pakistan in search of security against hegemonic India and Afghanistan claiming territories of Pakistan across the Durand Line opted to join SEATO and CENTO which were created by the US to contain the communist expansionism in South Asia and the Middle East. […]
On the cover on the left the researcher of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Shi Zhengli, on the right, above, the former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, defined as the executioner of Tiananmen, below (from left) the director of WIV son of Zemin, and molecular biologist Chen Zhu, former Chinese Minister of Health, promoter of […]
Invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can carry disease, so Oxitec’s modified strain is designed to reduce their numbers
“Societal divisiveness is counterproductive in a pandemic,”
