Please, please read this recent blog post by my friend Abby Okrent. I will have more to write about Israel’s most recent outrages in Gaza very soon. http://rabbibrant.com/ Dear Mr. President, My younger brother was an early believer in you. He worked for your Senate campaign. At the age of […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar As tensions mount in the coming hours and days with the Israeli troops and tanks advancing toward Gaza menacingly, United States President Barack Obama begins to realize that he has a forked tongue. Gaza becomes the litmus test of what he can claim […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar So many wars to launch, so little time. When you’re the political leader of the most militarized nation on the planet – as is the case with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu – you gotta find ways to play with your toys. More:
Humanity First Volunteers meet President Obama while helping victims of Hurrican Sandy: See Video here President Obama Thanks Volunteers from Canada Humanity First Canada Volunteers Help Victims of Hurricane Sandy […]
an example: http://www.publici.com/content/russians-are-fleeing-syria?gclid=CNvPoITl0LMCFQzKtAod1EYA7A ‘Russians are fleeing Syria’ Why does this organization need to submit these articles as a paid advertisement? And more important: Who pays for it? and why? Who has the answers?
Washington Post: Buried in the mountain of demographic data preoccupying political pundits this week is one historic statistic that may have far-reaching consequences for religious freedom in America: Seventy-nine percent of white Protestant evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney, a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints […]
The Times of Israel: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his belief in a two-state solution to the Middle East peace process on Tuesday, but was coy when commenting on […]
Dr. Todenhoefer is requesting on his facebook page all of us to : PLEASE SHARE, PRINT, SIGN AND SEND THIS LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA! The President of the United States […]
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation brotherhood hosted special guest, Dr. Agha Khan, of the Admadiyya Muslim Community, the BHC and our Northwest community’s newest neighbor at its opening meeting! This friendly Muslim […]
Source: TOI BOSTON: Corporate America is raising the volume of its plea that the US government avert a year-end “fiscal cliff” that could send the nation back into recession, but chief executives aren’t pushing the panic button just yet. With a heated election season in the rear-view mirror, executives are […]
By Heather Hurlburt US NEWS Heather Hurlburt is the executive director of the National Security Network in Washington, D.C. Heather previously served in the Clinton administration as speechwriter to the […]
RT: Houston, we have a problem: more than 70,000 people have signed a petition on the website of the White House asking for Texas to secede from the United States. Less than a day after RT first reported that a petition demanding the secession of The Lone Star State from the US […]
by Lolita Baldur, Huffington Post WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. official says Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demoted the former head of U.S. Africa Command who was accused of spending […]
Source: Yahoo News PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix […]
The Examiner: By the Grace of Allah Almighty! The first magazine “ISMA‘IL” for Waqifeen-e-Nau (Life Devotee) has been launched at a time when it coincides with the Tehrik Waqf-e-Nau scheme […]
By Barbara Lochbihler The Daily Star, Lebanon “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the American poet Carl Sandburg wrote hopefully in 1936. His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic. Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones – or […]
Story Summary by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Petraeus may have seemed larger than life in uniform, but beneath the ribbons he was a very human story. Petraeus’ 14-month tenure as CIA director was short and, compared to his rocket-like ascent to a four-star rank in the Army, something […]
NY times: Can war be justified? Is there such a thing as morally proper conduct in war? With Veterans’ Day upon us and, with the Obama administration preparing to face another four years of geopolitical choices in unstable regions, The Stone is featuring recent work by Jeff McMahan, a philosopher […]
Huffingtonpost In the Footsteps of Jesus, published by National Geographic Books, is the culmination of a very personal 15-year quest for the historical Jesus. As both a historian and practicing […]
WASHINGTON: The United States late Sunday declared its support for the united Syrian opposition after various groups opposed to the government of President Bashar al-Assad decided to come together following talks in Doha, Qatar. “We look forward to supporting the National Coalition as it charts a course toward the end […]