Mike Pence is visiting the most populous Muslim country on earth -- Indonesia. And on Thursday morning he said something that you wouldn't expect out of the man who is second fiddle to America's Muslim-hater In Chief.  "As the largest majority Muslim country, Indonesia's ...read more

It appears to have escaped much of the western media that right now, one of the gravest environmental crimes this century is taking place in the rain forests of Indonesia. Due to slash and burn agriculture that clears land for new plantations, an unusually long dry summer and ...read more

The level of deception in the reporting on Edward Snowden's stolen National Security Agency documents has reached an all time high. Or shall we say "low?" The latest item, an article by James Risen and Laura Poitras, is so obvious in its prevarication that it was shocking to see ...read more

(Photo: Indonesian soldiers, left, and navy special forces line up during a security parade last year. AFP) For the first time since June, a Snowden revelation could have serious life and death consequences. Not widely reported in the United States, a November article by The ...read more

If you haven't read E.O Wilson, you really should. The eminent biologist is a brilliant thinker and wonderful writer who draws from many different disciplines and manages to make complicated subjects extremely easy to understand. I dug up a fascinating interview with him on the ...read more