Roksana and Beauty lingered outside that fateful morning two years ago – neither wanted to go inside to start turning out jeans and shirts in the factories housed in Rana Plaza the day after they had been evacuated because of cracks in the building. But their line managers pushed and cajoled until both women went to their stations at two of the five ready-made garment businesses inside. “I was scared,” Beauty recalled in a video interview with Human Rights Watch in Dhaka. “I didn’t feel like going inside, my heart was pounding.” She said she couldn’t work properly that morning…

I knew two of the men whose names are engraved on the Vietnam Veteran Memorial. The first, Artie Klippen, I saw a lot of that season in ‘63 when we both played Lacrosse at Georgetown. We had one of those anarchic undergraduate arrangements where we briefly shared a car, a beat-up old Chevy with the gear shift on the steering column. Compared to so many guys at that age who are callow and two-faced, Artie was a straight-up, warm and friendly guy, qualities that make him to continue to stand out in my memory, even though we never got to…

The twentieth century, the Age of Ideology, promised to bring heaven to earth, heralding a new age of infinite improvement. By the late 1990s, with the collapse of communism—symbolized in the razing of the Berlin Wall—the promise of a socialist utopian lay in ruins. In the face of this collapse and a growing disquiet regarding some of the products of our scientific age, global leadership appears to be floundering in an ethical vacuum. Like the angel in Paul Klee’s famous painting, “Angelus Novus,” we are turned in horror as we survey the wreckage of the past. It keeps piling up…

    How we can express our mercy and love to our brothers through the world and why not to mankind ? As Muslim society we don't need to .enact a solidarity law We enjoy a strong culture of solidarity because our faith. Allah reward every muslim who smiling  to his  brother in Islam, how if he help him ? But the great challenge now is how and when we should aid our brothers  ?   ,,If we can sent every week 5 to 10 dollars to Palestinians or Syrians refugees