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 Kevin Anthony Stoda Educator and Political Scientist GERMANY, USA, PHILIPPINES, Oman eslkevin1@yahoo.com SHARE 
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KEVIN STODA-has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.--He sees himself as a peace educator and have been-- a promoter of good economic and social development--making-him an enemy of my homelands humongous DEFENSE SPENDING and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues.
"I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' and 'alone' when I write and publish.- I-keep two blogs--one with BLOGGER and one with WORDPRESS.- My writings range from reviews to editorials or to travel observations.- I also make recommendations related to policy--having both a-strong background in teaching foreign languages and degrees in teaching in history and the social sciences.--As a Midwesterner, I also write on religion and living out ones faith whether it be as a Christian, Muslim or Buddhist perspective."
On my own home page, I also provide information for language learners and travelers http://www.geocities.com/eslkevin/-,- http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/-& http://alone.gnn.tv/
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE NEEDED IN GERMANY--and elsewhere—NOW The issue of “Lohndumping†and cries for social justice art at heart of GERMAN ELECTIONS REGULARLY. I think not only do Germans and their labor unions need to organize with so muchenergy today in 2009, but Americas and other peoles need to get on the ball and organize subcontractors and underpaid citizens and immigrants more.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009SPD's FUTURE WILL CONTINUE to LOOK GOOD—BUT ONLY AFTER it WORKS OUT its DIFFERENCES with THE LEFT in 2010 or 2011 until the SPD's national leadership and their supporters can work out their differences, the SPD is likely to be the odd-man-out when national election day arrives. Currently, the SPD is only expected to get about 23% of the national vote on September 27. Therefore, rumors are abound that following this anticipated-2009-catastrophe, the SPD will rethink its attitude towards working with THE LEFT party.
Thursday, September 3, 2009How Bad Are The Economies Of The Developing World, Like the Philippines, In The Wake Of The World Financial Crisis? How are developing countries, like the Philippines responding to the Global Economic crisis? Is it the same for all lands--for example, China and Middle Eastern States? How about comparing trends with what has happened in the USA? (The USA behaves like a developing land in terms of health care and other legislation.)
Wednesday, September 2, 2009CITIBANK and COHORTS' takeover American's Loans and Credit: “Banks at Risk of Failure Has Reached 15-Year High†Filipinos and others need America to set a fiscal and policy example by investigating the fraud of these big banks, which have helped destroy much of America's middle class over the past decade. When will America address the issues of fraud and predatory lending of the past few decades by Citibank, Wells Fargo, Chase, etc.???
Sunday, August 2, 2009BREAKDOWN IN COMMON SENSE AND DISCIPLINE: TOO COMMON IN HISTORY OF WAR Whether it is Douglass MacArthur or recent American generals and officers in Iraq or Afghanistan, THE USA MILITARY machine continues to ignore facts on the ground, such as noncombatants on the ground when carrying out warmaking. Why has the USA milityary not improved in its capacity to protect civilians? I think it is because we never take genersl and officers in for war crimes trials like we should and as code of behavior
Sunday, July 26, 2009REVIEW: Tadeusz Sobolewicz's BUT I SURVIVED-and How to Take the Longer View on Horrors of War, Terror and Torture By this time, however, the young Sobolewicz said to himself, "We can't allow ourselves through our will to revenge to become like those who mistreated and tortured us or killed our family members." There will be time and courts enough for that.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009WHY COGNITIVE and EPISTEMIC REGIME THEORISTS PREDICT that CHINA, INDIA, BRAZIL, and other large developing states will j At the G-8 Summit in Italy last week, many observers were disappointed when India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico did not commit themselves to targeting Co2 and other gas reductions along as they had been asked to do by many signatory states of Kyoto Climate Control treaty. It surely would have been helpful to the entire planet if these other five key developing states had done more than orally recognize CLIMATE ISSUES
Saturday, July 18, 2009Berlin, GERMANY: Bishop Huber of Evangelical Church notes that Germany is Europameister in Weapon Exports and We all ha Bishop Huber noted that Germans have blood on their hands for indirectly supporting endless wars, including some wars where children are both the victims and soldiers.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009Genius and Hard Work for the Planet Go Unrewarded in the World of Crony Capitalism and Crony Governance Gregor Czisch of Kassel, Germany worked almost a decade producing one of the most amazingly forward-looking and clear-thinking piecess of research any PhD student on the planet could ever be expected to produce. Now, Czisch's work is the basis for the 400 billion dollar North African Energy project, known as Desertec-i.e. the largest European and African energy development project undertaken. Dr. Gregor is often out of work
Monday, July 13, 2009REVIEW OF DER SPIEGEL'S "The Dark Continent: Hitler's Holocaust Helpers" Poles have been upset by a three-part DER SPIEGEL article from early May 2009. The first piece had been entitled, "THE DARK CONTINENT: HITLERS HOLOCAUST HELPERS". I had just finished reading the articles myself and was not quite certain what all the hoopla in Poland might be about. I explained to my friend that the piece's title was just a play on two famous non-fiction works of the past decade.
Sunday, July 12, 2009WHICH CAPITALIST PATH WILL WIN OUT? ASIAN AUTOCRATIC? EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL? or AMERICAN-BRITISH? Reflections upon the end of the so-called Pure Market Antidote to political-economic-and socialized management of societies have been heavy since American home markets began tearing the stock and financial markets of the planet apart in 2006. In the title of this article of mine, I am asking what kind of modes of capitalism will come to dominate over the following decades. What do readers think will take place?
Saturday, July 11, 20093 BIG PARADIGMS (HOLDOVERS from Cheney-Bush, et. al.) that OBAMA NEEDS to THROW OUT At a HAW round table in January many famous historians spoke on their overall evaluation of Bush-Cheney era. Among them was the foreign affairs historian Vijay Prashad, who noted that since Carter, every single U.S. president has continued to follow a flawed-but-similar foreign policy approach to other lands.
Thursday, June 25, 2009GOLDMAN SACHS AND OTHER BANKS STILL BAMBOOZLING AMERICAN TAXPAYERS AND GOVERNMENT Nomi Prins, the author of books and articles on how conservatives take your money--even if they fail to win elections--is charging the USA Federal Reserve and our money-grubbing bankers of taking even more and blowing it on themselves.
Monday, June 15, 2009THE SHAME OF UNESCO? OR THE SHAME OF EXCLUSION FROM MEMORY? Nils Minkmar, a Saarland-born German and French writer & observer of political and social life in the modern world, wrote a stinging article against the likely promotion to UNESCO leadership of the Egyptian Culture Minister, Faruk Hosni.In short, quite appropriately, Nils Minkmar is preemptively attacking any efforts to make Faruk Hosni the next General Director.
Friday, June 12, 2009HOMESCHOOLING: VERBOTEN IN GERMANY STILL IN 2009 Some Germans have asked for asylum in the USA because Germany still does not permit homeschooling. Homeschooling is a hot issue in Germany--even though most people are begining to see some need for alternatives to the state and private schools, which don't necessarily serve some students well.
Thursday, June 11, 2009SUSTAINABLE VOTING & DEVELOPMENT--EUROPEANS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO ACT & VOTE PAROCHIALLY IN THESE 2009 EUROPEAN PARLIAME Everyone talks about sustainable development but sustainable development also takes democratic participation. This is what Michael Kopat of Wuppertal's influential institute ZUKUENFTSFAEHIGES DEUTSCHLAND says in a recent speech in Wiesbaden Germany. Europeans and North Americans should follow his advice and political analysis when voting.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009FROM PRAYER TO DEMONSTRATION: The Neglected History of East German Churches in the 1980s During this 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, many in Germany are reevaluating the events of that age and reflecting on what it means in Germany and in the world today. This article focuses on two pastors involved in the Revolution of 1989/1990 in Eastern Germany. They are Rainer Eppelmmn and Markus Merkel. They faced jail and attempted murder but they fought non-violently and successfully.
Saturday, June 6, 2009TAKING COMMUNION WITH JACKIE ROBINSON The feast of Corpus Christi is approaching. In Germanny the day is a nationally recognized holiday. The writer has picked up an old autobiography of Jackie Robinson and finds it appropriate to view communion and the body or life and death of Christ through the memory of the Great Experiment to integrate major league baseball and eventually all of America by end of 20th Century
Tuesday, June 2, 2009GERMANY IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE: NEW GERMANS FROM 113 LANDS WHILE THOUSANDS LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, "DEUTCHLAND" Germany is facing the most extreme slide in demographics of any country in Europe. It is currently depending on a strict integration and immigration policy to keep freeloaders from around the world out. While it tries to keep people out, Germans are leaving their homeland and Europe at a fast rate. The German government seems to be failing in its integration, demographic and anti-emigration practices.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009How a Train Station in Wiesbaden Became Confrontation Between the Bundesbahn and its Nazi Reich The Deutschebahn or German Railway is one of the better run and more profitable railways in the world, yet, little is done to have its train stations or its leadership recognize any linkages in memory related to the Holocaust or slave labor under the Nazi Regime in the 1930s and 1940s. A train is in Wiesbaden to help raise awareness among children and general public this week. The dots need to be connected.
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