LUBP- by Ali Lahore: The Oscar winning movie “Lincoln” will soon be available on video. This awesome movie is about one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America. It is also about a president whose fundamental challenge was not international – instead it was domestic. In the […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Is anyone else wondering why the Steubenville, Ohio rape victim’s two best friends testified against her? With this week’s arrest of two other girls who “menaced” the teen victim on Facebook and Twitter, we have the beginnings of an answer. Rape culture is not only the […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — This week, we mark the tenth anniversary of the day the U.S. launched the Iraq War. But when we think of how differently that war might have been fought, the most important date to remember is February 25, 2003. That’s when Army Chief of Staff Eric […]
Source: CNN New York (CNN) — After more than two decades behind bars, David Ranta walked out of a Brooklyn courthouse Thursday afternoon with an apology from a judge and one immediate wish: “Get the hell out of here.” Ranta had been convicted of second-degree murder in 1991 for killing […]
Source: Dawn.Com The shooting happened Thursday night at the Quantico Marine base in the state bordering Washington DC, according to media reports. The suspect was a Marine who attended officer candidate school at the base, CBS News and other media reported, quoting First Lieutenant Augustin Solivan. More:
by Kymelya Sari JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The contrast in demeanour between Abu Sufyan and his teenage son could not have been more different. The family of five will soon […]
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay. Maggie O’Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. James Steele in supporting torture, death squads and brutal sectarian conflict during the height of the Iraq war. Steel’s […]
The real question here isn’t “Why so many babies?” It’s “Why so few marriages?” And we have an answer. by Derek Thompson THE ATLANTIC This was the most shocking statistic I read this weekend: 58 percent of first births in lower-middle-class households are now to unmarried women. Meanwhile, two in […]
RT: UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria’s Aleppo will start as soon as possible. Official Damascus and the rebels are […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — A rare Chinese bowl bought for about $3 from a yard sale in the U.S. sold for $2.2 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday. The bowl, found in New York state, “was bought for a few dollars from a tag sale near the […]
By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The writer is a prominent professor of law at Harvard University and a well-known advocate for Israel. The Jerusalem Post: Israelis desperately want peace, normalization and […]
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq — a war that started with solid public support, but ultimately became a politically-divisive issue. A survey of […]
The Atlantic Monthly: One morning in September 2006, during the United Nations General Assembly, President George W. Bush’s daily intelligence brief contained a particularly chilling item. It was three sentences long, and it scared the hell out of the dozen or so White House officials cleared to read it. According to […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent So will it be tragedy, farce or tourism? Obama’s a tourist, so says the Davy Crockett of the American journalistic frontier and philosopher king of The New York Times (aka T Friedman, Esq), but he’s wrong. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Public Speech-making […]
Source: Spiegel Polish special forces and US Navy Seals pose for pictures under a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the port of Umm-southern Iraq in March 23, 2003. A decade on, polls suggest that a majority of Americans view the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a mistake. Right […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar. So here’s a modern geopolitical parable that would puzzle Aesop. Bibi publicly insults POTUS. He unabashedly supports Mitt Romney (who?) in the US presidential elections. He hits the “peace process” with a barrage of Hellfire “facts on the ground” (with loads of Palestine “collateral […]
Huff Post: If you looked at Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century painting “The Last Supper” and didn’t know that it depicted a gathering of Jesus and his disciples for a Passover celebration, you would probably think it was a get-together of Christian monks. Not surprising, since that’s just what it […]
Alislam.org: Youtube: Published on Mar 20, 2013 A documentary about John Alexander Dowie, who was an opponent of the Promised Messiah (as). Narrated by Ahmad Mubarak. © Copyright MTA International. […]
By Haris Raja, Baltimore, MD. Pope Francis’ election made history. All eyes were on the smoke from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney where cardinals gathered to elect the Pope. It was an important election as some, such as Cardinal McCarrick were concerned about the growing threats to religious freedom and harassment of Christians around the world. There was another smoke that did […]
By: Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter, Published on Wed Mar 20 2013 Citizenship and Immigration Canada is launching an ad campaign Wednesday warning Canadians to protect themselves against marriage fraud. A seven-minute video will be posted on the department website, featuring the real-life stories of three Canadians, in silhouettes, whose foreign […]