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Tag: Robert F. Kennedy

  • The foolishness of the Ukraine crisis in Europe, with a possible solution

    The foolishness of the Ukraine crisis in Europe, with a possible solution

    “There is no honourable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except it’s ending.” – Abraham Lincoln. Ordinary citizens in both Europe, Ukraine and Russia don’t want war. It’s rarely that people want war. Propaganda, however, can accelerate sentiments in different and sometimes sinister ways, as often shown…

  • Irons in fire with the 2016 US Presidential elections

    Wisdom, moderation, insight, courage and at some extend compassion are important ingredients for the US Presidency, – besides experience and an ability keeping the right balance in the midst of different opinions within various groups of advisers and security meetings. Robert F Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis noted that at the time there were…

  • Is Sydney University Able To Embark On Leading-Edge Educational Change?

    The article is aimed to stimulate somehow a re-thinking about the way education is being done at primary, secondary and higher educational levels. Education is not just meant to acquire knowledge as a business but is meant for higher purposes such as to contribute to develop a mindset or a spiritual framework which adds to…

  • WE have a DREAM

      “No matter what people tell,   – your words and ideas can  change the world.” -Robin Williams – -> “It is never my custom to use words lightly.. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are…

  • Anniversary JFK assassination and review

        is an edited version on Review  JFK  Assassination  2011: An  issue for both Democrats and Republicans. on June 9, 2011, – with more available information now.   INTRODUCTION   Today 50 years ago was the State funeral of President John F. Kennedy, – the 35th US President.   After 50 years we remember President…

  • The Question As How To Serve…

    The best answer on the question as how to serve in the best possible ways can be given by those who serve or served best. Those who went out in any kind of wilderness, – lacking money and recourses and build up their heartfelt dreams. There are different ways of serving. I have neither vivid…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Art of Leadership and Lessons from the Past – Edward M. Kennedy

    Leadership lessons  (Edward M. Kennedy)   “Ted Kennedy’s life is a reminder that much can be achieved by late bloomers; that you don’t have to have your career all figured out by the time you’re       25, 35, or even over 45.”              – Sarah Green in a post on…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice (Part 4 – former President Nixon)

    The 37th US President Richard Milhouse Nixon “I am not a crook” – R.M Nixon:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M&feature=player_detailpage RICHARD   NIXON’s   VIOLATIONS  OF  JUSTICE Richard Milhouse Nixon (1913-1994 was born in Yorba Linda (California) in a lower middle class quaker family of an Irish background. After his degree at Duke University he worked for 5 years as…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice (Part 3 – former US President Johnson)

    The 36th US President Lyndon B.Johnson – “I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be, and when this election is over I am going to open a museum and put them on display”  -LBJ. Introduction Perhaps Lyndon Baines Johnson neither needs a museum to put his assumed actions by his opponents  on display,…

  • Review JFK Assassination 2011: An issue for both Democrats and Republicans.

        This article has been edited and reviewed in November 2013. See contents below:  Anniversary JFK assassination and review   Anniversary JFK assassination and review Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure…

  • Our future lies in our children as well!

    Our future lies in our children as well! Fortunately, in history, we still  have remarkable  people, – people who left their foot prints, their legacy,  at the times they lived. People who reflected courage at times of the worst violation of human rights. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian before and during the 2nd World War, saw  the dynamics leading to…