The signing of a nuclear pact between the United States and Iran, allowing the latter to possess nuclear capabilities has predictably caused political chaos in regions of the world that perceive the agreement as a threat to global stability. Barack Obama has come under intense criticism in the US for agreeing to terms from which America has allegedly received little. Right wing western media outlets have characterized Iran as a rogue state that is both infiltrated and support

An article published in a small New Jersey rag called the Star Ledger on December 20th 2014 entitled ‘Feds penalize 23 NJ hospitals for infections, errors’ describes the unacceptably high rate of hospital acquired infection observed in certain hospitals in the state of New Jersey. A report from the US Department of Health and Human Services assessed a penalty of 1 percent of the hospitals annual Medicare payment. This newly implemented federal policy is a key part of the effo

What is hope? A thought, a feeling, a sense or a combination of all three. We create hope in the midst of chaos and trauma realizing that it is the only thing along which we can find our way back to salvation. If one has ever wondered why it is that humans deprived of either their mental or physical freedom invariably turn to the chalice of hope, for it is within the gilded borders of that metaphorical cup that man might find the peace and harmony for which he yearns. The str

As anyone following the legal battles in which I have been busily engaged in the state of New Jersey for the last three years, there has been a suspiciously coordinated attack from both the media and the medical malpractice ambulance chasers. An article published in November 2013 in the local rag, the Bergen Record, by the ‘veteran’ doctor hating journalist, Lindy Washburn, brought significant attention to the frivolous lawsuit filed in federal court by a US auto insurance co

The evidence collected to date, clearly indicates that the system of incarceration employed globally, to ostensibly punish legal offenders and less convincingly protect society, has failed. Sending boys and men to jail simply does not work, and in fact what has been more definitively demonstrated is that is tears at the fabric of society. Taking away the freedom of an individual, particularly one convicted of a non-violent crime, serves nobody and is nothing but punitive. How