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Doug Wead

Doug Wead is a presidential historian and New York Times bestselling author. He served in the White House of George Herbert Walker Bush and is the co-founder of Mercy Corps, a relief organization that has distributed $US 1.5 billion of food and medicine around the world.

15 May, 2012, 12:17

Ron Paul is not OUT! He is UP!

Ron Paul has announced he will not be competing in the upcoming primary states, saying that he will focus, instead, on his delegate strategy. A strategy that is working, by the way, and transforming the Republican Party. It is something he has said many times since the February 11, 2012 caucus in Maine. Only this time, the mainstream media gave the announcement full attention and treated it...

12 May, 2012, 22:51

Presidents’ Mothers: Their secrets to success?

23 April, 2012, 19:16

Ron Paul Wins in Iowa and Minnesota, Romney in Panic

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Sara Firth

The stories behind the news – a look at some of the thoughts and experiences encountered in the course of filming.

With additional footage and interviews, it will hopefully be a chance for people to further form their own opinions – and find out more about how a particular story came about, and was shaped.

11 May, 2012, 18:03

Road to Damascus - hit and run: UN observers` car comes under attack

With a big contingent of new observers having arrived here in Damascus (pushing their numbers to around 170 this morning and still growing), we were expecting the morning to be a quiet one as they processed the new arrivals. But early morning and a convoy went out and we drove to the suburb of Aldmeir. When we got to the army checkpoint the UN observers stopped as always to make the...

4 May, 2012, 05:41

Road to Damascus: Where are all the peacekeepers?

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23 April, 2012, 08:36

Grand Prix indeed: Ecclestone and F1 sponsors cash in on Bahrain GP, but are left looking cheap

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It's time, my friend: it's time!

Juha Molari

Juha Molari has worked for more than 20 years as a priest in an Evangelical-Lutheran church in Finland, but a conflict arose with his church because he strongly criticized a few legal anti-Russian organizations in Finland. Molari is a doctor of theology; his dissertation was a psycho-historical study about religious extremism and war trauma. For his second degree, in business education, Molari studied in Helsinki and in St. Petersburg. He has also worked as a journalist. He enjoys sport, especially long-distance running and going to the gym.

30 March, 2012, 12:57

Pussy Riot – an odd model for the future

When a female punk group illegally performed at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior they not only directed an attack against the presidential election, but also against the Orthodox faith. As a priest of some twenty years and holding a doctorate in theology, I can say that their presentation was no prayer, but rather an inappropriate insult. At issue is an ability or inability to respect...