60 Minutes Benghazi Disaster: There Could Have Been So Many More
By Barry Lando.
The embarrassing flap resulting from the 60 Minutes report on Benghazi–broadcasting a sensational interview with security officer, Dylan Davies, an apparently totally trustworthy, convincing source, who [...]
President Obama: A loser coach managing a losing team
By Ted Burnett.
Note: The following is an email exchange with Jan McNamara, an executive with PBS, in response to my complaint over Mark Shields’ recent comments made on inside Washington about the president. Some minor edits [...]
Zero Dark Thirty, a propaganda film!
By Zoi Aliozi.
Please read: Zero Dark Thirty, a propaganda film!
Afghanistan: Roar of the Lionesses
By Pratibha Singh.
War torn Afghanistan is also plagued by terrorism, drug trafficking and warlords who have left the social and political structure of the country in shambles. The proposed drawdown of US and ISAF troops [...]
Analysis: Why Lebanon matters today more than it ever did before
By Jose Naffah.
Lebanon matters today, more than it ever did before. It matters because it continues to be a buffer zone and a state of contention (be it dysfunctional, as it is now) between secularism and religious extremism [...]
Election time in the greater NYC area is a fizz; burn experience
By Catherine Bonjukian Patten.
Talk about being “out of touch”! The people who voted for Mayor in NYC and for Governor in NJ are completely loony OR should I write the people who DIDN’T VOTE.
This is what happened basically [...]
The Oslo state of mind
By Yoram Ettinger.
On October 24, 2013 (the Diplomatic Conference) and October 16, 2013 (the memorial ceremony for Prime Minister Rabin), President Peres, the architect of the September, 1993 Oslo Accord, claimed that the Israeli-Palestinian [...]
Gaza Running Out of Fuel and Medicines
By Stephen Lendman.
Gaza’s suffocating siege persists. Israel imposes it illegally. It’s been ongoing since June 2007. It began a year earlier in less extreme form. It constitutes collective punishment. Fourth [...]
Volgograd Bomber’s Mysterious Passport
By Sean Guillory.
One of the more curious and controversial aspects of the Volgograd bombing was how quickly the Russian media released the passport of Naida Asiyalova, the suicide bomber. Life Newstweeted an image of Asiyalova’s passport [...]
The Environmental Enemies of Energy
By Alan Caruba.
While Americans grapple with the Obamacare debacle and 90 million are officially unemployed according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is another threat to our future as environmental groups like the Sierra Club and [...]
Report: Former British Foreign Secretary peddles “Jewish control” trope in Parliament
By Barry Shaw.
A report from an ex-Member of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) yesterday claimed that during a meeting in the British Houses of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary Jack Straw (Lab) peddled an anti-Semitic [...]
Obamacare Fallout
By Stephen Lendman.
Obama’s signature program is rife with inequities. It makes a dysfunctional system worse.
It rations healthcare. It’s unaffordable. It leaves millions uninsured. It leaves millions more [...]
What Is Wrong With Our Judicial Training!
By Frank Palatnick.
According to 2012 statistics found on court databases, both here and abroad, there are numerous countries that have judges with both ethical and criminal charges/violations that are either squashed at the primary [...]
Obama’s Legacy is Failure
By Alan Caruba.
No need to wait around three years and beyond to know what Barack Obama’s “legacy” will be. It will be failure. Few, if any, presidents have demonstrated his level of incompetence and ineptitude.
Obamacare, the Affordable [...]
Predicting America’s Future
By Alan Caruba.
One of the great parlor games of pundits, politicians, journalists, and just about everyone else is predicting the future.
There’s a wonderful book, “The Experts Speak”, that is filled, page after page, with predictions [...]
Marci on Obama and the NSA dragnet; Stalin — and Primo Levi on atheism
By Ronald Bleier.
Talk about Obama’s Teflon. Here’s a quote from Marci Wheeler, whose invaluable blog, Emptywheel, is as critical and skeptical as it gets. Yet she’s persuaded that Obama is basically a good guy getting [...]
How Obamacare Screws the Working Class…Hard
By Frank Salvato.
Now that it is becoming clear that the establishment House Republicans are about to capitulate to the Senate Democrats and Obama Progressives, it is clear that, short of Republicans taking the Senate in 2014 and the White [...]
French Military Intervention in Africa: Moral responsibility
By Pramod Sedhain.
After successful French military operation against extremists Islamist in Mali’s this year, the former French colonies – Central African Republic (CAR) sought another humanitarian intervention [...]
We Need Zero Tolerance for “Zero Tolerance”
By Alan Caruba.
When I was a youngster a prize possession of every boy was a set of toy cowboy six-shooters and, if you were especially blessed, a belt and holsters as well. In the pre-television days we all went to the Saturday matinees to [...]
Ukrainian Lawmakers Propose to Ban Abortions
By Tetyana Bohdanova.
In early April, three MPs from the opposition political force “Svoboda” [“Freedom”]registered a bill that would ban abortions in Ukraine. The only exceptions foreseen in the proposal included [...]