International
Sign the Charter for Compassion
How about committing to compassion in 2010? It’s not a quality that we talk about very often - and perhaps in our modern world, it’s not one that is much lauded. But I strongly believe that compassion for self and others would make a profound impact on our world. We’d be able to forgive our [...]
Pirates: There are 2 sides to every story
Over at Jack&Jill Politics there is a post on the Somali pirate situation called “Somalia’s Pirates: The Story You Never Hear” in which they talk about and link to some other articles what’s really going on in Somalia with regards to the pirate situation.
It would be very convenient and simplistic to paint this as some primitive, [...]
Race – an international perspective
When I was on CNN in January, the anchor Jim Clancey asked me an interesting question. He said that similarly to Obama, I have an international background (my parents are Nigerian, I’m a first generation born Briton who was raised in London and have lived in S Africa – all interesting hot spots for racial [...]
Obama & The Rest Of The World
If the rest of the world could vote in the American elections, Barack Obama would certainly win. The adulation that he was greeted with on his tour of Europe, the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan show as much. Obama symbolizes a great deal to a world fed up with President Bush.
Americans, however, seem not to [...]