Category Current Events

Wokeness is a political concept that connotes an awareness of and adherence to a set of social justice and ethical norms. The constituent elements of these norms one has to adopt to be woke appear to evolve with the varying… Continue Reading →

My first job in the U.S. in the early 1990’s was in Chicago. In 1994, a good friend from Singapore visited my  home in Oak Park, the first suburb west of the City of Chicago. He noted that many homes… Continue Reading →

In early 2004, the Iraqi insurgency took a strange turn. Beginning in February, bombing attacks began to target the local Iraqi population more than the American and coalition forces. By March 2005, the Iraqi government counted over 6,000 dead and… Continue Reading →