Politics

Obama's Test From Chávez

By Michael Rowan · 15 years ago

Of all the foreign policy messes George W. Bush is handing off to President-elect Barack Obama, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is the worst. On the two tests where Chávez is the key -- shaping a respectful ...

Obama is GREAT! But, he isn’t going to change your world.

By Gopal Chandanani · 15 years ago

Hi Guys, I hope you all were able to see Obama’s Inauguration speech the other day. I truly felt that it was great, but yet for some reason the thought of him being unable to ...

A Brief History of Martin Luther King Day

By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American minister, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement during the 1950s-1960s. Today he is a human rights icon and the U.S. along with a ...

Why Pakistan

By Ahmad Parvez · 15 years ago

Why was Pakistan created? What was its genesis and what ideology was driving the Pakistan movement? Why did a vast majority of Muslims support the idea of Pakistan and why did a majority of the ...

How To Have A Mature Political Chat

By Francis K. Githinji · 15 years ago

We love to chat about many things. People have different favorite topics to talk about. When you have a particular interest in mind, you look for those chats that will suit your needs best. If ...

Expansion Plans For Disneyland

By Shashwith Uthappa · 15 years ago

Managing director Andrew Kam Min-ho said yesterday that Hong Kong Disneyland would bolster its size by more than one-third and would cost half the price of the cruise terminal which is to be built in ...

Beijing Playing The Economic Card?

By Shashwith Uthappa · 15 years ago

Beijing acted as a ladder to lift Taiwan for economic support like it did for Hong Kong earlier. The fourth cross-strait economic forum was being attended conjointly by the Communist party and Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang. ...

Politician to Undergo Background Checks for White House Appointment

By Diane Sullivan · 15 years ago

Background check has become an everyday process in any HR office in the land. Every time an applicant comes for an interview, background check is always expected to be conducted. For quite some years now, ...

The American Cinderella and her Ugly Sisters

By Con George-Kotzabasis · 15 years ago

The following paper was written on June, 2003, and published in my book Unveiling The War Against Terror, on May, 2004. It'srepublished here hoping that the readers of The Global Journal will find it to ...

Africa Could Bring Cuba and Obama Closer

By Circles Robinson · 15 years ago

Obama’s election has opened a window of hope in the world. In Cuba, the hope is for a semblance of normalization in US-Cuba relations. The task is formidable with five decades of inertia propping up ...

Learning Politics Using Board Games

By Victor Epand · 15 years ago

Many board games are based on some realistic life experiences, some deal with sports, real estate, and even banking. Then manufacturers came along and decided to add the process of politics to the line up ...

Barack Obama – Senator to President-hopeful, President of the United States

By Rel Adviser · 15 years ago

Relationships! The definitive Advice as to whether a presidential candidate would win the election and eventually become the President of the United States could be verified, among other things, by computing whether there is any ...

American Anti-Terrorist Campaigns 1908 - 2008

By Bernard Fleury · 15 years ago

The capture of badly wounded Papa Faustino Ablen, his subsequent recovery, trial for brigandage (thievery, abduction, extortion, etc.,) and his execution in August of 1907 broke the back of the Dios-Dios Pulahanes as a major ...

Dewan Eboo Pirbhai

By Ibrahim Machiwala · 15 years ago

Period: (1905-1990) Dewan Sir Eboo Pirbhai, the first Chairman of the Leaders' International Forum, was born at Bombay on May 27, 1905. His father, Pirbhai Gangji belonged to a noble family. He came in Nairobi ...

The Career in Politics

By Bobby James · 15 years ago

Why do candidates for Congress spend millions of dollars for an office that pays $169,200.00? Between 2004 and 2006, members of Congress' net worth increased an average of 84% - book advances, speaking engagements, stock ...

Is America Ready for Barack Obama to be president?

By Simon Jones · 15 years ago

On June 3rd, 2008 Illinois Senator Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nominee, and with this honor Obama become the first black candidate ever nominated by a major political party for the nation's highest office. ...

The Obama Health Plan

By Diane Carter · 15 years ago

The Democratic National Convention (www.demconvention.com) week officially kicks off today in Denver, Colorado and concludes on August 28, 2008. Delegates from all fifty U.S. states and from American dependencies and territories such as Puerto Rico ...