The fever of global panic has broken. Mexico is receding from the headlines, though H1N1 continues to claim lives—85 worldwide as of May 22nd. With the luxury of some hindsight, several trends are becoming apparent. My posts over the next few days will discuss some of the more salient trends. First, the Calderón administration deserves […]
The United States must include Israel as a major component in any negotiations with Iran, according to a variety of academics speaking at the Tel Aviv University’s Center for Iranian Studies annual conference convened today. Due to Israel’s unfortunate status as the principal target of Iran’s nuclear program, some of the analysts concluded that no […]
This Memorial Day, I would like to pay tribute to all those American military men and women fighting in Afghanistan and beyond. Actually, I would like to go further and thank all those Americans who have sacrificed for this country by serving in our militaries throughout our history, whether in Vietnam, Iraq, WWII, etc. To […]
The leader of one political party accusing the leaders of another political party of doing grave and deleterious harm to a country’s democracy, as th Congress of the People’s (COPE) Terror Lekota claimed about the African National Congress (ANC) recently, is pretty much par for the course in South Africa and globally. The real surprise […]
In Sunday’s New York Times, Denise Grady has an important feature on the disturbing death rates of women during childbirth and labor, most of which are easily avoidable. Of some 536,000 women who die a year giving birth, more than half live in Africa.
Anti Americanism doesn’t seem to go away in Pakistan. Normally, you’d think that because of America’s aid and assistance to help Pakistan, there would be widespread support for Washington in the country, but that is not the case. On the contrary, everyone in the country is all worked up and listening to these people, and […]
The State Department clarified the Administration’s posture towards Jerusalem as a final status issue in the midst of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu comments that the holy city will remain under Israeli control. Question: What is the U.S. response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s comments that all of Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and “will never […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his cabinet today that building in existing settlements could continue despite U.S. pressure to halt all settlement construction and expansion. Even though the Israeli government agreed to dismantle some illegal outposts following the meeting between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, many members of the Likud-led coalition expressed a furor over […]
German news website Spiegel Online is reporting, according to “sources close to the tribunal”, that Hizballah was behind Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination. Until recently, Syria was thought to be responsible for the murder, which also claimed the lives of 22 others. The new allegations come just two weeks before the Lebanese parliamentary elections. It is […]
Antisemitism isn’t only relevant when talking about parts of the Arab world and Europe, where hate crimes against Jews remain on the rise. Our readers in and around the United States also assuredly encountered bias directed towards Jewish-Americans, most recently outside Washington, D.C. An elementary school and police car in Bowie, MD were recently spray-painted […]
As the Likud-led government prepares to dismantle some illegal outposts in the West Bank, some members of the coalition expressed deep dissatisfaction with the anticipated move. Reportedly, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister- and Labor Chairman- Ehud Barak agreed to withdraw some of the illegal outposts at Barak’s discretion. The U.S. government repeatedly pressured […]
For some news on the lighter side, extreme wilderness photographer Martin Hartley has just returned home after taking part on the Catlin Arctic Survey, a team of three British explorers who spent two and a half months walking across frozen sea ice, charting its thickness as they went. In total, Hartley has been on nineteen expeditions to […]
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