We dream of things that never were and say: "Why not?"

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Tag: Middle East

  • A Collision Course in Europe and the US with Russia?‏ – What is the real Crisis?

    To preserve peace and avoid the threats of war will be a challenge for each generation anew in different identities and requires now to make a united stance against increasing sectarian violence across the borders of inflated perceptions on those which were earlier considered to be opponents. Relations between nations with frictions on relatively trivial…

  • The wider implications of the Syrian drama

    What started some 2 years ago in Syria as a protest movement against a brutal oppressive regime is now an uprising of spiralling war between various fractions, potentially dragging a whole region in a whirlpool of vicious violence. – What started 2 years ago as a struggle for justice being compromised became a sad time…

  • 21st Century’s collision course of nuclear disaster, – both the possible and the impossible!

    Among free men,” said Abraham Lincoln, “there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs.” Those who get confused about the real priorities on earth and lose their cause will pay the costs This is the…

  • America’s Role In The Middle East – Justified?

    “We shall live at last as free men on our soil, and die peacefully in our own homes”, – as Theodor Herzl once wrote in his book “The Jewish State“. He wrote this almost a century ago, long before the concentration camps of Hitler, long before the increasing tensions in the Middle East, – not…

  • We dream of things that never were and say: “Why not?”

    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Robert Frost – “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned in order to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCrx_u3825g – “You see…

  • Some predictions for 2013 after 2012?

    >”Don’t sweat the small stuff when so much else matters.”< Predictions are not always easy and sometimes impossible. We have one certainty and this is that not nothing is certain. Our agenda for tomorrow based on today or yesterday may well work out, but sometimes it may get disrupted by the unexpected and we have…

  • To sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression against human rights and injustice, and create the biggest movement on earth

      – “Each time a man stands up for an ideal or act to improve the lot of others, or strikes against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of…

  • “To make gentle the life of this world.”

    – At times all of us would wish to live in a world more stable and tranquil, – but the fact is the world isn’t like this. Our times are both complicated and perplexing, but even though they are difficult and perplexing the challenges are still filled with hope and opportunity, even though the dynamics…

  • Let’s take the torch forward

    Good evening – or good morning – wherever you are at this hour. – Wherever you might be in your life, or wherever you will be in the future, – the future being the most important thing for all of us. The future we all cherish, – if we still have dreams or things to do.…