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Drugs that were once legal

Treatments from our great granny’s time, very effective medication! Bayer ‘S Heroin A .bottle of Bayer’s heroinBetween 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine.It was also used to treat children with strong cough. Coca Wine Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the Continue Reading

Problem with Muslims in Western Democracies

Special Dispatch 2309 April 10, 2008Reform ProjectLiberal Gulf Writers: Muslim Groups in Europe Are Exploiting Europeans’ OpennessSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE DONATE CONTACT USMEMRI MEMRI TV THE MEMRI BLOG MEMRI ECONOMIC BLOG JIHAD & TERRORISM THREAT MONITOR PROJECT TURKISH MEDIA PROJECT IRAN BLOG Two recent articles in the Gulf press discussed the attitudes of European Muslims towards the Continue Reading

Isreal and the war in Gaza

The following article was written by Ian O’Doherty on January 5, 2009. Mr. O’Doherty is an independent Irish journalist. WHY THE ISRAELI PEOPLE HAVE FINALLY HAD ENOUGH So, it’s genocide now, is it? Or is it actually another holocaust, something which one typically restrained Palestinian analyst described as “worse than Hitler’s war against the Jews”? Continue Reading

Proportionality

Proportionality is the operative word of many commentators and critics when they write or discuss the actions of Israel in their war with Hamas in the Gaza strip. Newspapers throughout the world are filled with comments at how disproportionate is the Israeli response to the rockets from Gaza and in fact how few Israeli lives Continue Reading

Yesterday, today and beyond

The twentieth century has seen changes in our society which are nothing short of amazing. If you wanted to describe what happened, you could use one word “computer”. It is the most profound technological development since the steam engine started the industrial revolution 200 years ago. To-day, not only every desk in a typical office Continue Reading