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Thu, January 28, 2021 | 11:07

Profits and losses

Profits and losses

One column in this paper read, "I'm still surprised people are surprised how bad it can be to be black and in America." I retorted: I'm still surprised people are surprised how good it can be to be black and in America. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they don't always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

2020-08-04 17:07

Idealism in politics

Idealism in politics

It is fair to say there are people who want to change the world for the better when they enter politics. They are idealists who want to positively influence the world around them. These idealists are eventually faced with a Catch-22 scenario. They are going to find out the more things change, the more they stay the same. John Kennedy's Presidency is a shining example of this.

2020-08-03 17:23

Tree of life

According to GlobalTreeSearch, there are 60,065 species of trees. Genesis 2:9 talks of another kind of tree: “the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”

2020-08-02 17:25

Korean War armistice and today's world

Korean War armistice and today's world

The outbreak of the Korean War on June 25, 1950, is referred to publicly with some regularity, but the same is not the case for the end of that brutal war three years later. On July 27, 1953, the combatants finally signed an agreed upon armistice.

2020-07-31 17:01

Twice atomic bombed

Twice atomic bombed

By Nam Sang-soTsutomu Yamaguchi (March 1916~January 2010), a resident of Nagasaki, was an engineer when his employer, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki asked him to take a temporary duty at its Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Yard in Hiroshima, some 5 hours train ride to east. Yamaguchi was supposed to return to his home office on Kyushu Island on Aug. 7. He was on his way to t...

2020-07-30 17:33

Time for traveling

Time for traveling

Summer is a good time for traveling with friends or family members or even alone. It is also the best time to visit other countries to learn about other cultures and history. I used to travel overseas during the summer. What would you like to do when you are free from COVID-19? We are not so sure whether we can go back to a “normal” life that we had before COVID-19.

2020-07-29 17:28

Exemplar for persecuted

Exemplar for persecuted

Congressman John Lewis' passing on July 17 came at a difficult time of fraught race relations in the U.S. amid a once in a hundred-year worldwide pandemic. While the American people have lost a civil rights icon during a trying period of inter-community tension, the world is also bereft of a leader whose moral courage provided universal lessons and inspiration for the many su...

2020-07-28 17:06

Okinawa and Korea

Okinawa and Korea

On a memorable trip to Naha City in Okinawa several years ago, I became enwrapped with the ancient Kingdom of Ryukyu's history. Standing in front of Shuri Castle and the Shurei-mon Gate, I was transported back to the ancient world of relations between Ryukyu and the Joseon Kingdom of Korea.

2020-07-27 17:25

Afghanistan War and Russian money

Afghanistan War and Russian money

“Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” That was the headline in “The New York Times” on June 26, and other media quickly picked up and promoted the story. Trump administration critics in the media and politics made accusations of covering up and neglecting to act on the explosive, shocking information.

2020-07-26 17:50

US election and media

US election and media

When it comes to U.S. media in an election year, including polls released and relentless coverage of candidates, one must always bear in mind the main driving force. Media outlets are far less interested in the outcome of which party wins than of the bottom line… profits. Les Moonves, former chief executive of CBS Corporation, said it best in the lead-up to the 2016 election....

2020-07-24 17:03

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