Shane Bauer, after leaving the infamous Iran prisons goes to Pelican Bay prison in United States and finds that United States, the beacon of law, fairness and openness, treats its prisoners worse than Iran.America, you're funny.

 As written by Max Fisher of Washington Post, Oxfam says it is against poverty in Palestine. Except when that poverty alleviation is created by an Israeli company which builds a factory that pays Palestinians far above Palestinian wages to lift them out of poverty...Scarlett Johansson, associated with both, picked the ones providing jobs and thus poverty … Continue reading Oxfam fights poverty. Unless Israel wants to give jobs. In that case it fights for poverty.

 Palestinian Flag   Jordanian FlagNumber of Palestinians in Jordan: 3,000,000 (50%)Number of Palestinians in West Bank: 2,700,000Size of Jordan: 89,000sqkmSize of Israel: 20,000 sq kmSize of West Bank: 5,000 sq km% of West Bank Palestinians with a Jordanian Passport: 100%Funny how no one wants Palestinians of Jordan to have their country and Palestinians didn't care for … Continue reading Free Palestine! In Jordan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html?_r=3Here's a trader who seeks to end something that America will never deal with, wealth addiction. For America to deal with this is like for a parasite to deal with host killing addiction. It's just the nature of the beast! And yet, sad as it is, it does so much harm to those who are … Continue reading America You’re Funny: Wealth Addiction

I used to search for a good looking woman that was like me. Then she came along and made me realize that what I should have been doing was looking for was a good woman that like me.

I sat in between Brian and Jason. Jason is an engineer and Brian's cousin by marriage. Brian was a lawyer but quit and started a bar trivia company in Southern California. I met Brian at a hostel in Colombia. He was Jewish, an ex-wrestler and from San Diego. We bonded quickly, and the fact that … Continue reading Jewish Christmas in San Diego

The day we are born the world is a huge unknown. As children, the world becomes a scary place with dangers all around us. As we get older and older, we begin to figure out the world, grasp control over it and begin to see it a a place for us to create and not … Continue reading Homophobia Explained

United States fought authoritarian Communism for six decades, building up its military, telling USSR to free its people. Today under capitalism, seven of the ex-Soviet states are dictatorship and yet in America there is no desire to free the poor countries so long as they produce profit. It appears that lack of profit was the … Continue reading America, You’re Funny-Communism, Civil Rights Nelson Mandela

Terri Beth Mitchel's Christmas Brothers. So I want to make a confession. I love Christmas! Yes, that is right, I'm Jewish and I love Christmas. No, I am not a messianic Jew or as most people know: a Jew for Jesus. I am your run of the mill, Ukrainian emigre, left-wing non-denominational, viral Zionist Jew. … Continue reading In Defense of Christmas

In most of the developed world, to become a doctor, you go to college for five years at an affordable rate, do your residency and then specialize. Then you generally make a decent middle class income. There being a doctor is encouraged and supported. It is not a money making profession but a noble profession.In … Continue reading America, You’re Funny – Doctors