By Anwaar Hussain Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in St Petersburg, then known as Leningrad. His father Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, was a factory foreman and his mother, Maria Ivanovna Putina. He was raised as an only child; his two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during [...]

By Marcus Salek I am not a Theologian, but I grew up attending Congregational Churches in America and most of my adult live, before I moved back to Europe. American Christian Fundamentalism does NOT appear to resemble the teaching of Jesus Christ. Far from it, it looks more like a mixture of the Zionist Racism [...]

By Uri Avnery WHEN I hear mention of the “Clash of Civilizations” I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. To laugh, because it is such a silly notion. To cry, because it is liable to cause untold disasters. To cry even more, because our leaders are exploiting this slogan as a pretext for [...]

By Simon Jenkins I remember as a small boy going from door to door in our village collecting money for a missionary ship, the John Williams. It was taking God to the heathen of the East Indies, a distant realm to which the Good Lord, despite His all-seeing wisdom, had carelessly (and I thought excitingly) [...]

A deeply disturbing article, taken from The Business online, about the impact of British education system on its upcoming generation and state of their mental development It is one of the most devastating indictments of British education ever produced: a study of 10,000 children reveals that 11-and 12-year-old children are “now, on average, between two [...]

Damian Thompson One view Today we will learned that Al Gore has won the Nobel peace prize. As someone who cares passionately about climate change, my little prayer that he wouldn’t win has been ignored. The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. [...]

Einstein’s affairs should surprise no one, says Desmond Morris. It is all in the genius’s genes. Off the beaten track    So Albert Einstein did not, after all, spend all his waking hours chalking up complex symbols on a blackboard. According to letters newly released, he devoted quite a bit of it to chasing the [...]