Nat Yogachandra

Do we care for Syrian people? Where is Justice for humanity?   The current civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Half the country’s pre-war population — more than 11 million people — have been killed or forced to flee their homes. Children are dying there. At least 96 children have been killed and hundreds injured in eastern Aleppo, since Friday, UNICEF said. It is sickening and the big powers are keep on feeding the war machine. Innocent women and children are being slaughtered every day. Even the outgoing United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his farewell speech at UN General Assembly meeting last week said that the powerful countries on both sides in the Syrian conflict “have blood on their hands.” He is helpless. Two days ago, Ban Ki Moon described the situation in Aleppo as worse than a slaughterhouse at a UN meeting. The countries involved in the conflict are using the latest and more destructive weapo...

Politics in the United States and around the world remains a major divide between humanity. This country is bitterly divided - racism still exists - as it has b een for well over a decade. The two major parties and their representatives in this great country are more divided along ideological lines, and the resulting political animosity towards each other is deeper and more extensive, than at any time in recent U.S. history. Look at the world. The news and happenings around the world over the past year has been sad and heartbreaking. As former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said a few years ago or put it mildly - the world is a mess. Every fresh atrocity in the United States or around the globe manages to find some new ways of shocking to me. Iraq and Syria are falling into chaos with millions of refugees fleeing violence, British disagreements with the European Union, coup attempts in Turkey, and myriads of conflicts in Asia are few concerns facing us. It se...