Monica Lewinsky Speaks out – was made a scapegoat

Published May 06, 2014, FoxNews.com Facebook 370 Twitter 347 Gplus 26 Monica Lewinsky, now 40 and 17 years removed from her affair with then-President Bill Clinton, is speaking out — offering what could be uncomfortable details as Hillary Clinton is thought to be preparing a White House run. Lewinsky has penned an account […]

Borderlands: The New Strategic Landscape

Geopolitical Weekly TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2014 – 03:03 Stratfor By George Friedman I will be leaving this week to visit a string of countries that are now on the front line between Russia and the European Peninsula: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Azerbaijan. A tour like that allows you […]

Education for the Voiceless: India’s Muslim Students Still Ignored and Underserved

Huff Post: by Brianna Sacks — MUMBAI, INDIA– The bell rings, and nearly 700 Muslim students pour fromAnjuman-I-Islam school’s worn, stone buildings onto a dusty quad. Their plain, blue-and-white, government-sponsored uniforms mask the reality that 97 percent of these secondary school students come from ghettos, slums and illiterate families. Despite the […]

Is there any hope for Nigeria?

Source: CNN Protesters in a “million-woman march” on Wednesday, April 30, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, highlight the government’s failure to rescue scores of girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in mid-April. Militants seized about 230 girls in the dead of night at a high school in […]

Ahmedis are also Pakistani citizens

Source The daily Times via Nasim Malik Death brings no respite either. In 2012, the tombstones of more than 100 graves were razed by 12 to 15 armed men. The graveyard belonged to the Ahmedi community and the verdict given by the terrorists was that the use of verses of […]

Damascus opera suffers under mortar strikes

Story Summary Just as Leen Arbid entered the front gate of the Damascus Opera House, a potent symbol of the Assad family’s decadeslong authoritarian rule over Syria, she heard a deafening bang. Mortar attacks have become daily occurrence in the Syrian capital of some 2million, often killing more people than […]