US (Pal Telegraph)--Inside the house, store or building rain beats the pavement.  Rapid, pitter-pattering drops echo as they pound the puddles that have already formed from the onslaught.  Sounds intermittingly interrupted with rolling thunder in the skies above, filled with dark black clouds, pi [ … ]

  US, (Pal Telegraph)--Fires blazing and people are rising, with discontent abound.  Wars waging and conflicts are on going, with people dying and states attempting to reassert their control over this period of uncertainty.  Where are we heading?

US (PalTelegraph-Rachael Rudolph)—Some have made the argument that if the January 25 Egyptian protests do not continue after today, then we are not witnessing the beginning of an Egyptian revolution.  One thing is being overlooked, however.  The number of people on the streets indicat [ … ]

US (Pal Telegraph—Rachael Rudolph)-Knowing the past sheds light and provides understanding of how we came to our current situation.  However, answers to and solutions for our problems today do not lie in the past.  This is especially the case when the past we learn of and the narrativ [ … ]