After 80 years in print, the newsmagazine adopts an all-digital format. We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be […]
The Times of Israel: Well, it’s just ridiculous, isn’t it? Demeaning. Risible. Absurd. Two grown men squaring off against each other as though they were boxers. Preening, pulling themselves up […]
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1273044–republicans-reduced-to-empty-rhetoric-on-defence-siddiqui Republicans reduced to empty rhetoric on defence: Siddiqui Published on Wednesday October 17, 2012 Share on twitter Share on facebook By Haroon Siddiqui The Toronto Star – Editorial Page It’s more than his language that makes Mitt Romney yesterday’s man. His “whole binders full of women” and letting working […]
Source: Stratfor: “Defining al Qaedais republished with permission of Stratfor.” The Obama administration’s efforts to counter the threat posed by al Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement have been a contentious topic in the U.S. presidential race. Political rhetoric abounds on both sides; administration officials claim that al Qaeda has […]
For all the political differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney, it’s important to remember there is more in humanity that unites than divides. Consider what author David Maraniss discovered […]
Source: Asiatimes: LOS ANGELES – It’s the meme cycle that ate this city – and the nation, for that matter. No one can escape the attack of Binders Full of Women; from Tumblr to a tsunami of tweets, from the coolest Facebook page in ages [1] to a 2 Live […]
Russian TV: The money-ruled American political system has a pretty straight-ahead Wall Street agenda and is designed to eliminate opposition the way dictatorships do, Jill Stein, the US presidential candidate for the Green Party, shared with RT. She believes that both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have essentially the same […]
RT: The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi national they say intended to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan this morning, only a few blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. The man, identified as Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is reported to have conspired […]
BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2012 — Second event in Science and Islam series opens discussion on clash and reconciliation within Muslim community of personal belief and scientific principle BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Islamic Congress (AIC) and Project Nur will present the second panel event in their Science […]
Story Summary by Rami G. Khouri Sometimes things happen so slowly that the casual observer misses them, and one such occurrence is the slow evolution in the United States’ position in its faceoff with Iran. Two important things seem to have occurred since the spring: Washington seems to have taken […]
Author: Jon Ostendorff with contribution from The Associated Press Source: Citizen-Times.com A Billy Graham Evangelistic Association article labeling Mormonism a cult has been removed from the group’s website following the 93-year-old evangelist’s meeting with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week. Graham, during the meeting, pledged to do “all I can” […]
Russian TV: Many gave a sigh of relief after the papyrus fragment known as the “Gospel of Jesus’ wife” turned out to be a fake. The text hailed as “old […]
A coalition of religious organizations representing a broad spectrum of faiths is buying up ad space in Metro stations to counter an advertising campaign mounted last week that many observers see as anti-Muslim. Shoulder to Shoulder, which includes 28 member groups representing Christians, Jews and Muslims, is placing in three […]
Since the financial crisis, academics, politicians and even former bank chieftains have called for the nation’s banking behemoths to be broken up or shrunk — calls that appear to have fallen largely on deaf ears among Washington’s policy makers. Now, a powerful insider has suggested a simple tool that could […]
Officials say they’re flooded with applications from well-heeled Saudi Arabian men with one or more wives seeking a new life in Canada BY TOM GODFREY,TORONTO SUN Diplomatic officials said they’re […]
Businessinsider.com: This year Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley are splitting the Nobel Prize for Economics, and it’s about time. Each has made a huge impact on both the theory and the real world practice of economics, and have saved thousands of lives in doing so. Shapley is the more senior of the pair, and scores […]
By Mike Honda Washington Post: This week felt like a throwback to the 1950s, to McCarthyism and fear mongering. I, and countless others, spoke out in defense of Muslim Americans […]
Source: Press Release On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl […]
Planet believed to be six times the size of Earth is named PH1 after Planet Hunters website used by two American volunteers guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012 A planet with […]
The Rude Awakening by Carl Lindquist http://clindquist-rudeawakening.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-list-of-unusual-mormon-beliefs.html?m=1 Top 10 List of Unusual Mormon Beliefs and Practices Obviously, every religion can seem strange to those outside its doors. And we often […]