Ben Tanosborn
Polls have closed in Iraq as I start to write this column early Sunday morning, Pacific Time in the US. As many as 10 million Iraqis are estimated to have cast their vote, showing their indomitable character – threats and all, adding to the vote of yet another 600,000 expatriates and refugees abroad, [...]
We, Americans, not unlike other materialistic societies inhabiting this earth, have for the most part a very narrow focus on the problems we face and an even narrower one on the problems that might sprout beyond our frontiers. A few tears will be shed this week by those more compassionate in our society for the [...]
Ben Tanosborn
As we bring curtains down to the initial 1 percent of the new millennium, while taking a summary look to see what we’re leaving behind, one feels compelled to give these past ten years a name; one other than 00’s or similar non-descriptive monikers that fail to depict what the period was about. [...]
Ben Tanosborn
Some of us in the United States would like to think that the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not confer the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to Barack Hussein Obama, our 44th president, as a prize for a promise yet unfulfilled but, rather, as a reward for a deed in the form of change; [...]
Populist Party of America
The Populist Party’s name is somewhat deceptive. One might mistakenly think that this emergent political party is a modern incarnation of the original People’s Party. The Populist Party of America, however, possesses values and heuristics diverging from the norms that underlay America’s first self-acknowledged populist movement. For instance, Populist America is far [...]
By Ben Tanosborn
Ten years after World War II had ended, as the US was exercising economic hegemony over much of the world, Will Herberg came out with his book, “Protestant- Catholic-Jew.” A book which socio-politically went a long way defining the American Way of Life as a recipe of two lofty ingredients mixed in equal [...]
Ben Tanosborn
Obama is coming home after two difficult summits, Russia and the G-8, to a domestic agenda not likely to yield better results. If our pessimistic selves paint a world which is economically poisoned and environmentally doomed, Air Force One’s landing at Andrews AFB will bring back this president to the epicenter of it all; [...]
Ben Tanosborn
“Everything would be ok if it weren’t for that CNN scaring us out of our wits, giving us all those stories and commentary on the recession and presumed bad economy,” was the statement someone made at the table as we were having breakfast at a delightful B&B of the most charming Victorian-accented town in [...]
By Ben Tanosborn
Few speeches during the past decade have been so eagerly awaited as was Obama’s address in Cairo last Thursday, June 4th. And few speeches have received such wide and far review during these early days of the millennium.
This flawlessly delivered speech, paused with 33 applause interruptions, was hosted by the Islamic epicenter of [...]
By Ben Tanosborn
If you want an accurate representation of the world, I am reminded… get a globe! A two- dimensional geographical sketch of our planet just won’t do.
As I type away my thoughts for this article, right above the monitor, hanging on the wall, is a 4’ wide by 2 ½’ high Rand McNally world [...]
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