Soldiers’ New Task: Handling Afghan Babies
Afghan mothers has been passing on their babies to foreign troops over barbed wire at Kabul airport in the last few days. Those photos demonstrated the desperation of Afghan people to flee the Taliban rule. The U.S. Marines seen carrying the baby were with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Marine spokesman Maj. Jim Stenger told […]
A New Army? The Weapons Left for Taliban
One of the most dramatic incidents during the United States’ military withdrawal from Afghanistan is the United States soldiers leaving Bagram Military Base without telling the Afghan military commander on July 5th, 2021. The Associated Press has posted pictures of rows and rows of abandoned vehicles in Bagram, waiting for any comers, mainly the Taliban, […]
Capital Falls. President Runs. What’s Next for Afghanistan?
Afghan Ashraf Ghani fleeing from his Presidential Palace and Taliban fighters entering Kabul on August 15, 2021 signals the end to an era in Afghanistan, the era first began on September 11, 2001. According to a Brown University study, in these two decades, over 171,000 lives have been lost, both of the Afghan people and […]
Afghan Envoy Appeals to U.N for Millions Afghans Who are in Absolute Fear
Afghanistan’s U.N. ambassador Ghulam Isaczai told the Security Council he was speaking for millions of people ‘whose fate hangs in the balance,’ including women and girls ‘about to lose their freedom to go to school, to work and to participate in the political, economic, and social life of the country.’ Isaczai called on the council […]
Did the West Surrender to the Taliban?
As a group of rag-tag Taliban guerrillas took over the desk of the Presidential Palace in Afghanistan, the United Stated President Biden and his VP Harris have been absented for days. Since the Taliban captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, the world is wondering if the west surrendered to those mountain guerrillas? The images of Afghans […]
The Dirty Prince
Prince Charles who is also popularly known as the “Dirty Prince” for his passionate love and concern for the soil and earth as a whole is Britain’s most famous organic farmer. Believe it or not, sustainable agriculture was not always this popularly accepted. The Prince of Wales played an important part in propagating this concept […]
The Covid Effect II
On Saturday, 7th of August 2021, the US recorded its highest number of Covid-19 cases in day since the winter wave in 2020. This new high of over 100,000 cases a day is one of the results of the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus that has been scourging the world afresh over the last […]
Paris Leads the Way, the U.S. Health Care Workers Joined ‘Vaccine Passport” Resistance
With growing new surges of Delta variant, France’s parliament passed a law requires its citizens a proof of vaccination, a pass sanitaire (“health pass”), for entering restaurants or board planes, trains, and other public places. After the vaccine mandate was announced on July 12th, 2021, thousands of people have gathered on the streets of Paris […]
Over Consumption is Decimating Our Future
During the Covid pandemic, many of us have become familiar with the pictures of people cramming their storage rooms with toilet paper, hand sanitizers, and other products. Some of us might criticize the so-called “hoarders.” But only a few of us are aware that we have been overbuying long before the pandemic. In the nineteenth […]
Prince Charles ‘Vision Of Britain’ is Becoming A Reality
In December 2014, the Architectural Review published an article by the Price of Wales in which he shared his “10 ‘Geometric Principles’ for Architecture”. In his essay, he listed out these 10 principles as thus: 1. Developments must respect the land: natural patterns must be respected and adored as the relate to the man or […]