Forum: General World Topics

If north korea fire a nuclear missile this weekend... There will be no more manga or anime :( I'm download it like crazy... I have 3 computers...

Ok, this is a general thread to share your thoughts on the Presidential elections in the USA coming up in November. The first debate was last night....

There's a video you can view on Youtube about a massive campaign to stop him. Joseph Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals and I support the...

I'm sure most people here in this section are aware of the current situation in Syria, but if not, here's a quick overview. Now what I want to ask...

Capital Punishment/Death penalties. Do you accept it, or are you against it? To be clearer: Can you see good or bad outcomes of this? Both?...

What happens when camera and listening devices are not to turned off? Well, I've thought these political buddies were always hand in hand, but...

So the news is out, there no known contacts with extraterrestrial beings by the US government. The White House responds to two petitions in a program...

I made this thread for people to explain the way they think about or on certain issues and why they think the way they do on or about certain issues....

(Have to install Silverlight or something to follow this news) Libyan rebels have entered into Tripoli, it appears they haven't met any sort of...

I guess most will already have heard of it: http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/21/news/economy/government_shutdown/index.htm As the budget conflict...

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,769607,00.html Don't have an English version of this, but here is what happens: U.S. American...

http://www.avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_drugs/?cl=1089732682&v=9261 I'm well aware that this might be seen as advertisement and that this is...

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/05/2011522132275789.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-killed/story?id=13505703...

Whether you like it or not, a revealing full-body scans or a genital touching patdowns or both, these new security procedures are too invasive and...

55% abstention yesterday at the last local election in France, that's quite huge so I was wondering if it was the same feeling in other countries. I...

Wikileaks has caused some severe controversy over the last few months and recent releases should have a big impact on diplomatic relationships and...

Its been in the news for the past couple of months so i think it deserves its own thread. Ever since Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in late...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/un-report-says-worlds-food-stocks-at-risk-as-bee-colonies-dying-out/story-e6frg6so-1226019224382 So,...

I saw this on the BBC on-line news reader. Seems the Wiki leak reports reveal a lot "dark" and troubling information that U.S. government has to...

This ad of the origanisation "Citizens against Government Waste" from the USA kinda shocked me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM So,...

a little bit old but still very interesting. follow the link to see the video.

it was only a matter of time. it seems that the charge was taken back.

yet another very controversial thread here. What do you all think about the more recent developments between this two countries? Recently Colombia...

Ok folks, since last May wikileaks have reveled a lot of documents and video of US soldiers killing journalist and even civilians. I born in the U.S...

Im a little late since this happend few days ago .

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/do_we_need_an_american_putin.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 for those who doesn't have an youtube account: http://wikileaks.org/ the video is right in the...

Obama has been president of the U.S. for well over a year now and has had plenty of time to show us, at least a little, of how he intends to run the...

http://bostonreview.net/BR35.1/bacevich.php

Okay, I know we are pretty late on posting this news here. But everyone knows that Obama has recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. A surprise win...