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Jack Random
Something Happening Here: Iranian Elections and Funding the War - “Something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear.” - Stephen Stills. There is something happening on the international stage, in the cafes of Lebanon and shops of Tehran, in the halls of congress and in the spirit of the American people. The winds of resistance are blowing, the people are rising up and the wheels of change are slowly turning. There is a voice rising from the Iranian people that to the naked eye seems unpolluted by


Alan Caruba
From Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama: A Horror Story - John F. Kennedy, standing in front of the Berlin Wall, said “Ich bin en Berliner” to declare his solidarity with Western Germany, divided from its eastern half by the compromises with the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Ronald Reagan would later demand, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” as well as declare his solidarity with the Polish people seeking to free themselves from Soviet domination. I have heard two versions of what President Obama has do


Jim Camp
The U.S. Forbids Torture Amidst all the discussion about the use of torture since 9/11, it is rarely mentioned that the United States specifically forbids it. One can find the law pertaining to torture in the U.S. Code, Chapter 113, sections 2340 that defines it and 2340A that levies fines and terms of imprisonment. Not torturing those who are taken prisoner, even in the course of war, is not only illegal, but speaks to the moral code that Americans internalize as they go to school, play sports, and for some like myself served our


Haresh Daswani
The Real Face Behind the Mask Shell to Settle US$15.5 Million For Executing an Environmental Activist - While Shell displays and talks about how it is working to help the environment, their crime last 1995 should not be forgotten. This is, indeed, the true face of Shell, and perhaps, many other oil companies as they greedily conquer lands not theirs to satisfy everyone's addiction to oil. This drug, oil, which feeds on our daily requirements for transportation and other daily needs have been assured that it will still be kept at


Paul Driessen
US Government’s Climate Con-Job Obama Administration “Report” on Climate Change is Deceitful, Scare-Mongering, Bogus Science - Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations, and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings and subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.  But the standards change when “climate catastrophe” is involved.


Helen Briton Wheeler
Good News, Bad News I feel tossed between the above extremes as if imprisoned in some crazy electronic game: good outcomes versus bad outcomes; good results  versus complex problems. Right now, I am watching Australian TV reports and online Thai news as a bad situation unfolds on the streets of Bangkok, where my daughter and grandchildren live. The conflict is bad news. The only good I can see is in the level of restraint being exercised by the Thai military. Things could be much worse and I hope restraint works.


Roni Ben Efrat
Gaza War Strengthened Israel's Far Right The results of the elections to Israel's 18th Knesset clearly bolstered the far Right, which won 65 of the parliament's 120 seats. This outcome is partly due to the paralysis that beset Ehud Olmert's government. Almost three years ago he received a mandate to advance the peace process, but he squandered it on two wars. The lack of progress toward peace has had the effect of strengthening Hamas. It has also encouraged chauvinistic trends in Israel, as expressed in wall-to-wall support for the Gaza War. Isra


Dr Stephen Gill
Symbolism The accurate representation of the feelings, thoughts, moods, sights, ideas and a variety of emotions is a serious enigma which poets face. Their representations are about personal opinions that are in the mind. Without going into philosophical or logical depth, I call them the god within. Language is inadequate to bring out the god within, because this god is intangible. In addition to a mastery over the language, communicators need special skills and movements of hands, raising of eyebrows, changing tone


Sheharyar Shaikh
The Shoes that Made History “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog”, the young man shouted as he threw the first shoe at the American president, George Bush. “This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq”, he hurled the second shoe. In seconds, the Prime Minister al-Maliki’s security guards and US secret service agents pounced on him and began beating him violently before he was whisked away to an unknown location. This incident occurred on Dec 14, 2008, at a press confere


Paris Kaye
Across the Great Racial Divide... Presidency for a New Age - It is with Occamistic logic and vision lex parsimoniae that we, as a nation, understand people, places and things. With Aurelian simplicity, we determine cause of a given event sans extraneous factors. When up to one year ago, leading Economist declared a Recession. The fourth estate’s equivocal lexica suggested everything was either rebounding or dismal depending, of course, on which side of the political fence one sits. Due to a certain milestone going unreached


Joseph M Cachia
Poor Georgia! “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” - Walter Lippman No one should be surprised that U.S. interference in the Caucasus has led to the Russian intervention in South Ossetia. By intruding into the volatile politics of the Caucasus, and trying to recruit the governments there to become American ‘fitters’ for various purposes, the United States has only drawn rebuttal Russian fire. In Washington, Bush stepped out to the Whi


Publishers Notes
Some People Will Never Have Human Rights It is inevitable that some countries in the world will never have Human Rights. And certainly not the kind of Human Rights that those in democratically run countries get to enjoy. Even during those times that we, here in North America, ‘fight’ for human rights, worker rights, woman’s rights, lifestyle rights, etc., we take no real notice to those in other countries still ‘fighting’ for the littlest of basic human rights. The bare-bones stuff. Tibet, Myanmar, China, North Kor

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Am I Boring You? Print E-mail
Written by Alan Caruba   
Friday, 19 June 2009

ImageYears ago, beginning around 1984, I became “famous” as the creator of The Boring Institute, a media spoof that literally garnered international attention for its annual list of “The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year.” Until around 2002 I averaged a thousand radio shows and television appearances as the result of the Institute’s spoofs.

Along the way, I became an expert on the subject of boredom and was astounded at the links between boredom and many social problems. It is a frequent factor in various addictions, in crime, as a reason why children drop out of school, why marriages fail, and a host of other problems in people’s lives. It can be an indicator of depression.

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And For My Next Trick! Print E-mail
Written by Joel Barbee   
Saturday, 13 June 2009

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NFP Cartoon T-Shirt Contest Winner! Print E-mail
Written by MJ Studios   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009

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Congratulations to Greg Bulmash of Lynnwood, Washington for coming up with the winning line for our 'Rush" Toon Contest!

We'll have a NFP T-Shirt with the winning caption heading in Greg's direction shortly, to see more about our winner, we invite you to visit his website - Brainhandles!

Our thanks to MJ for supplying the Rush Limbaugh Toon. See more of MJ’s Toons here!

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New ‘Comments’ System on the NFP Website! Print E-mail
Written by Webmaster   
Wednesday, 13 May 2009

ImageAlong with the new Community is our restructuring of the NFP website. In order to ensure a free flow of informational commentaries, we have updated the Comment abilities for the NFP.

We’re happy to announce that the Comments are now open for anyone to use, although the incoming Comments will be moderated, they will be made available as soon as possible (provided they follow the essential rules of the NFP).

For the time being, the Comments left in the NFP will not show up in the NFP Community area. However, the Community will be able to cover many topics and provide a variety a ways for people to post comments and more. Click here to join the NFP Community!

Now it’s easier to post your Comment on the NFP, just click on ‘add comment’, write your note, and click submit. Although we can’t guarantee your post will be on right away due to server issues, email systems, the internet blowing up and the like, we will have your post on within a 24 hour period.

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