Shame-o-Phobia: Why Men Fear Therapy Not every man is as willing to sit down and share as Alexander Portnoy, the shameless hero of Philip Roth’s book. Why is it hard for some men to go to therapy? June 4, 2010 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Sex & Relationships headlines via email. // Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition » Several years ago, I was on a family trip, sitting on a bench with my wife in a plaza in Paris. Loaded down with shopping bags, she … Continue reading Why do Men Fear Therapy?

The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal and the Flotilla Attack Was an Illegal Act of War Because the blockade of Gaza itself violates international law, Israel committed an illegal act of war attacking the convoy, regardless of who attacked whom first. June 5, 2010 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest World headlines via email. // <![CDATA[// Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition » Israeli officials claimed that the IDF commandos who killed and wounded dozens of activists on a humanitarian aid convoy bound for Gaza this week faced … Continue reading Declaring WAR ON NATO!

The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they’ve plundered at a safe distance. June 2, 2010 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Economy headlines via email. // Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition » What happens when Americans plunder America and leave it broken, destitute and seething mad? Where do these fabulously wealthy Americans go with their loot, if America isn’t a safe, secure, or even desirable place to spend their … Continue reading Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

Israel — Increasingly Paranoid and Isolated, Dominated by Fundamentalists, Armed with Over 200 Nukes Foreign policy analysts around the world are quietly worrying about the prospects of having a very erratic state. June 3, 2010 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest World headlines via email. // Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition » After Israel’s lethal attack in international waters on a civilian flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza, a troubling question arises: Have Israeli authorities, who possess a major nuclear arsenal, become dangerously erratic? This question … Continue reading Increasingly Paranoid and Isolated, with over 200 Nukes!!!

Scientists find a ‘hint of life’ on Saturn’s Moon! Scientists have found evidence that there is life on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan. They have discovered clues that primitive aliens are breathing in Titan’s atmosphere and feeding on fuel at the surface. The startling discoveries, made using an orbiting spacecraft, are revealed in two separate reports. Saturn’s moon, Titan, pictured using ultraviolet and infrared cameras on board the space probe Cassini. Scientists now believe that the moon could harbour life Data from Nasa’s Cassini probe has analysed the complex chemistry on the surface of Titan  –  the only moon known to … Continue reading Boffin Mullahs say Aliens on Saturns Moon!

Three arrests after mass water fight in London’s Hyde Park ‘got out of control’ A mass water fight in one of London’s biggest parks led to three people being arrested and another ending up injured in hospital, police said. By Andrew Hough telegraph.co.uk The water fight in Hyde Park led to the nearby retail district being closed. Photo: ALAMY More than 1500 people were said to have taken part in the event in Hyde Park on Friday afternoon. Such was the size of the fight, believed to have been organised on social networking sites, that it saw the temporary closure … Continue reading UK Police ‘RADICALISE’ water pistol fighters!

India’s sexpert no substitute for education The rejection of sex education by parliament has left Indians relying on a newspaper column for advice on basic biology Sarika Bansal guardian.co.uk Can oral sex lead to pregnancy? Will daily masturbation make me go bald? If my elbow brushes against a woman’s breasts on a bus, will I be at risk from HIV? These are not questions being asked by innocent pre-teens in a middle-school playground. Rather, they are being posed – and answered – in India’s most widely circulated English-language newspaper. The “Ask the Sexpert” column runs in a daily supplement of … Continue reading Sex in India

Smokers’ Corner: The reactionary republic By Nadeem F. Paracha dawn.com For how long will we keep hiding behind a fragile mask of religiosity and patriotism, a mask that covers our faces every time we confront a situation where our views and actions (especially regarding faith) are questioned? Here’s a question: How come whenever there’s a drone attack (in which most of those killed generally are extremists), or a case of perceived obscenity or blasphemy surfaces, street corners are at once filled with burqa-clad women and bearded men chanting slogans like ‘Death to infidels’? But none of these fine, sensitive Muslims … Continue reading Mullahistan?

By Irfan Husain dawn.com A Pakistani police officer bars a cyclist from entering a street near the Garhi Shahu mosque belongs to minority sect, which was targeted by gunmen last Friday killing nearly 100 worshippers and left many injured, in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, June 4, 2010. Authorities beefed up security around the mosque to avert any terrorist attempt. – AP Photo A day after the slaughter of nearly 100 Ahmadis in Lahore last week, Britain’s Channel 4 aired a programme on Iraq in its ‘Unreported World’ series. The narrator described the plight of the Christians and other minorities in the … Continue reading Hate and horror in Lahore

By Huma Yusuf dawn.com As the US steps up its campaign against Al Qaeda, it must call for clear diplomatic and security-related agreements with Pakistan. Washington and Islamabad should jointly approach international organisations to monitor and evaluate the methodology of counter-insurgency operations in the tribal areas in an effort to remain transparent and accountable. Such pre-emptive and robust diplomacy would be the only way to ensure that the spirit of Obama’s supposedly revolutionary security strategy is kept alive. – Photo by AP. Recently, US President Barack Obama unveiled a new National Security Strategy. The document was hailed by many as … Continue reading US strategy: next step?