Society-politics
Witold Dudzinski
Is the whole world safer after Osama bin Laden was killed? Not necessarily. One should consider the possibility of revenge of the Arab terrorist's followers who regard him as a shahid - martyr. »
Wieslawa Lewandowska talks to Antoni Macierewicz, MP, about fog, disinformation, reliability of the investigation of the evidence and the instructions of the Ulyanovsk School, i.e., about the laborious but effective way to discover the truth about the Smolensk plane crash.
(L. D.)
Archbishop Slawoj Leszek Głodz accused the ruling party of making propaganda of success. 'One should neither hide the truth nor run away from it nor manipulate it fearing that the opinion polls will be unfavourable,' the Metropolitan of Gdansk warned the party. He celebrated Mass in St Mary's Basilica in Gdansk on the Feast of Mary, Queen of Poland and the anniversary of the Third of May Constitution. »
Live by the sword, die by the sword
Czeslaw Ryszka
On the Feast of 3rd May President Bronislaw Komorowski strongly criticised the opposition, and actually all Poles who thought differently than him, that they were 'non-patriotic' and that they 'tarnished the sanctities.' »
Boguslaw Kowalski
These are not only speculations of experts. The American Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on the possibility of gas production from shale. In its report concerning potential formations for shale gas the EIA discusses the situation of 32 countries, including Poland. »
Poles with Silesian ‘nationality’
Czeslaw Ryszka
In the European Union, including Poland, the National Census of Population and Housing began on 1 April 2011. It will last till 30 June. Unlike the census of 2002, which allowed to give only one answer concerning nationality »
Poles living in Lithuania are endangered
Anna Cichoblazinska
Neither the Tsar nor the German occupation, nor the communist Russification nor labour migration broke us down, and so we are going to survive now, says Jaroslaw Narkiewicz, MP of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, member of the parliamentary Commission for Education, Science and Culture. »
Marcin Masny
Historians struggle with the lack of access to sources. Since there has been no access to the global sources of the elites for the last two hundred years. »
Wieslawa Lewandowska talks to Prof. Lucjan Piela about the lack of serious public debate and the need of independent thinking not only in the society.
SKOK in the report of the World Bank
Anna Cichoblazinska
The media focus on the Co-operative Savings and Credit Unions (the Polish name: SKOK) on the map of the co-operative movement in Poland. This dynamically developing financial institution, directing its offers to their members (every client becomes a member of a credit union), embraces over 2 million people, which is 15% of households. »
Polish elites are growing a beast
Wieslawa Lewandowska talks to Dr. Rafal Matyja about political rivalry that goes beyond the framework of usefulness and about arbiters who add fuel to the flames.
Polish aspects in the Middle East
Marian Miszalski
There are many indicators that ‘victory of democracy’ in Egypt can mean a victory of the Muslim Brotherhood or at least compromising concessions to this Muslim Brotherhood made by every regime that will replace Mubarak’s regime. »
Introducing the truth and freedom into Poles’ lives
Rev. Msgr. Ireneusz Skubis talks to Alicja Zajac, the Senator from Krosno, the widow of the late Senator Stanislaw Zajac, Beata Kempa, MP from the Law and Justice Party (PiS) from Wroclaw constituency and Mariusz Blaszczak, President of the Law and Justice Parliamentary Club and MP from Warsaw Area constituency.
University’s mission – present aspect
Professor Solomon Asch, born in Warsaw, conducted crucial and now classical psychological experiments in the USA in 1951. In these experiments (out of necessity we will described them only very briefly) the gathered students received a drawing. »
Polish scientists against manipulations in the media
The scientific environments are mustering their energies to defend the truth. A group of scientists from Warsaw University published an article entitled, ‘University’s mission – present aspect’ (WU periodical, issue 1 (51), February 2011), which was also published in ‘Niedziela’ (issue 8, pp. 20-21). »