Middle East

"The causes of truancy are complex and challenging. The truants find schools boring and have no interest in learning."

"These draconian Anti-Terrorism Laws will threaten free speech and the integrity of Australian teachers, researchers, schools and universities – and hence profoundly corrupt the next generation of Australians."

"...if the Bush administration and its puppets in Congress achieve their common goal of protecting pharma profits by shielding vaccine makers from lawsuits, tax payers will have to foot the bill for the life-long costs of caring for millions of injured children."

"...the barrage of publicized attention to Thanksgiving gives very short shrift to the original Thanksgiving. Newly arrived settlers in their new world, we’ve been told, gratefully received help from savvy Indians who generously shared their food and knowledge of how to prepare for the oncoming winter. And that oft-neglected story, in turn, is rarely examined as a parable for how Europeans who arrived in North America several centuries ago were glad to take from native people -- and then proceeded to plunder and kill with a zeal that became genocidal."

Eventually, history will vindicate [Yasser] Arafat, and [Yitzhak] Rabin will be remembered as just another in a long line of Zionist strongmen bent on ethnic cleansing.

"Islam is second to none when it comes to rejecting caste, or social strata systems based on one's place of birth, inherited superiority, or religious and economic exclusivity. Naipal never lived in India, nor did his parents; he was a born a Hindu in Trinidad, the West Indies, and lived in England."

"Even if Peretz prevails in the election (which is possible, despite initial polls which give Sharon a 37% to 22% lead), he faces daunting challenges."

"If the Iraqi government is legitimate, and if it meets the will of the majority of the Iraqi people, the Iraqi government can and will be protected by Iraqi soldiers after the American military departs. The sooner the better. If American troops are required to support any Iraqi government, it should be apparent to all that that Iraqi government is illegitimate and should be replaced by one supported by the Iraqi people."