The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – A Beginner’s Guide

Ever since World War II ended, tensions between the Jewish-majority state of Israel and it’s surrounding Arab neighbors, most namely Palestine, have been high. With both states in a perpetual struggle for land and recognition, the Israeli-Palestinian situation has often been described as the world’s “most intractable conflict”. Now, as ongoing fighting intensifies and the…

Explaining ObamaCare

ObamaCare is a dubbed name for the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act, a bill signed into law to reform the health care industry by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Main Aims Of ObamaCare ObamaCare’s main goal is to give more Americans access to affordable quality health insurance and to reduce healthcare…

Images That Make You Think: Pawel Kuczynski

Pawel Kuczynski is known for his many illustrations centering political and economic satire. When I first saw this set of images, I found them to be extremely powerful and astonishingly true. He focuses on widely known global issues and depicts them in an almost surreal, yet very disturbingly permeable way. Kuczynski is a talented artist…

Time Management

We all get stressed but is it because there aren’t enough hours on the clock or because we don’t know how to manage our daily activities. Here are four easy steps to make your life easier and help you complete all your daily activities and squeeze a little bit of time in for yourself!  1.…

The Newtown shooting, and my thoughts

Note: As an author, and as a person, considering the nature of this incident, I don’t particularly feel like finding pictures related to the shooting. The words below are a brief summary of my thoughts on the incident, and are affiliated only with myself. I am sure many of you have heard of the Newtown,…

The Revolution Unfolds

The hubbub in Egypt was nothing but an uprising and civil unrest until Feb. 11, when now former president Mubarak left the capital for his resort in Sharm el-Sheik where a transfer of power from the president to the army occurred, and as of Feb. 14 it consolidated its power. The army promises to hold…

National Security vs. Freedom of Speech

As many of you might’ve read, Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing organization, is currently fighting to continue posting over 200,000 diplomatic cables and United States government information. These cables were reportedly obtained from a low-level Army Intelligence analyst. The content of these cables aren’t exactly volatile (the released documents are rather low-secrecy), however, this revelation has created dire diplomatic consequences for…

Iran: Nuclear Energy or Weaponry?

Recently I saw an article in the Calgary Herald about Iran and how the rapidly modernizing country has joined the arms race and has joined the nuclear weaponry team by creating several nuclear power plants to create “additional energy” for Iranian national interest. This discovery was made by the UN when it built it a…