THIRD WAVE WEST 2: FROM LANGUAGE TO THOUGHT
The third wave 5000 years ago carried mathematics, horse training skills as well as names of deities, sacred symbols like svasti, and practices like yoga and meditation, to West Asia and Europe. This was accompanied More...
Islamic Fundamentalists in North America
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt and its Wahhabi fundamentalist allies – who use the term “Salafi,” indicating Islamic virtue, to hide More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 2: NATURAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGES
All non-African humans and their languages can be traced to about a thousand individuals in South Asia 60,000 years ago. Two events during the Ice Age, a gene mutation and a major natural catastrophe played a pivotal More...
Why Did U.S. Security Fail in Benghazi?
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz On the night of September 11, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, a revolutionary focus in liberated Libya, was attacked by terrorists. U.S. Ambassador John Christopher More...
Tutsi Invasion: Behind the Racial Genocide in Africa
An African version of the infamous Aryan invasion theory propagated by missionaries and colonial rulers triggered the Hutu-Tutsi massacres. The churches played a key role in racial politics. Guest Column by Pankaj More...
Standard Chartered may lose NY license over Iran ties
In a rare move, New York’s top bank regulator threatened to strip the state banking license of Standard Chartered Plc, saying it was a “rogue institution” that hid $250 billion in transactions More...
Nervous Libyans ready for first taste of democracy
Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under More...
As a matter of fact
Column by MJ Akbar - Facts come in every shape, size, variety. Their survival is determined not by value but by how inexplicable they are. The human being has 23,000 genes, only “half as many as a tomato”, More...
British Journalist working for Iranian Press Freed: UK
London, UNITED KINGDOM – Two British journalists working for Iran’s Press TV were freed by a Libya militia group after more than three weeks, the UK government said Monday. Nicholas Davies-Jones and More...
