Monthly Archives: June 2012

America Is No Longer a Land of Opportunity By Joseph Stiglitz

U.S. inequality is at its highest point for nearly a century. Those at the top – no matter how you slice it – are enjoying a larger share of the national pie; the number below the poverty level is growing. The gap between those with the median income and those at the top is growing, too. The U.S. used to …

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Filipino actress Queenie Padilla quits showbiz, embraces Islam

  Filipino singer/actress Queenie Padilla shares her rebirth after performing Haj in Makkah. By all accounts, “the future leading lady” was on her way to stardom before she had a spiritual rebirth Queenie Padilla was starring in primetime TV shows and would sing and dance in production numbers on popular variety shows in the Philippines. She was the other half …

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Religious Violence in Myanmar Threatens to derail country’s transition to democracy By Latheef Farook

Eruption of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state early this month not only threatens to derail the country’s democratic transition but also brought to light the plight of Rohingya Muslims.  According to reports, Muslims account for about four percent of the total population of around 60 million in Myanmar, a resource-rich nation strategically positioned at Asia’s crossroads between India and China, Bangladesh …

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Raining death from the sky – By Latheef Farook

  The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, recently stated that President Obama's war against Islam is far more brutal than that of his predecessor, with the administration opting for deadly drone attacks over arrests.   The indiscriminate US drone attacks and the senseless killing of innocent people   have reached scandalous proportions, prompting even the pliant Pakistani …

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