All governments violate the basic rights of their citizens in the interests of the powerful and the wealthy. Nothing new about it. Right through history, it’s been that way whatever be the form of government in any country you look at. India, China, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, South Africa, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, the […]
One of the biggest challenges America faces in the 21st century is the threat posed to the nation’s security and economic interests by people waging asymmetric warfare against it. Asymmetric warfare imposes an unbearably high cost on the nation following the terror strikes of a few individual actors or small groups. The actions of the […]
There are some movies that manage the impossible task of convincing you that insensitive and callous as the Homo Sapiens race has turned out all is not completely lost with the world. Despair not, these rare films insist, because the virtues of decency and compassion can still be found among a few people if you […]
Just one day after its debut, Korean rapper Psy’s new music video Gentleman M/V has already attracted 28 million views. And 87% of the over half-million people people who voted for the video gave it the thumbs up. A mere 80,257 gave Gentleman M/V the thumbs down. Shows you that good taste is rarer than […]
HP is on a downward slide that not even the combined powers of Jesus, Allah and Krishna can arrest. The Silicon Valley company that once inspired countless entrepreneurs including the late Steve Jobs has no hope in hell of extricating itself out of the sinkhole it’s trapped in. HP’s inevitable miserable destiny proves that big […]
Chutiyas, it’s Viki with a V. Not Wiki, comprende? I don’t want to see any asinine comments about how you speed-reading gaandus logged on to Wiki and couldn’t stream any free foreign movies! 😉 A short while ago, fortified with a tall glass of cheap Chilean wine (Corbett Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon, $8.99) I sat down […]