When you see a Bieber-haired youth bemoaning the fact that getting “kicks” out of life now requires “synthetic means,” you could be forgiven for thinking you’re witnessing a Bushwick hipster kvetching about the ubiquity of social media and the FOMO phenomenon. In fact, you’re watching a British 14 year-old filmed in 1970 as part of…
Obama’s Israel Ambivalence The right says President Obama hates Israel, but in reality he’s just aloof and smug. Conservatives have for several years wondered aloud about Barack Obama and his seemingly less-than-warm approach to Israel. Could it be, they asked themselves, that he’s an anti-Semite? They should ask themselves instead how anyone as bored and…
Why You Should Blame Iran For The Gaza Conflict The Islamic Republic has been propping up terror groups on Israel’s border for years. If they are allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, the results would be catastrophic. Israel’s ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip has for the umpteenth time exposed Iran…
The slaughter of 29 women and two men in an alleged house of prostitution shows the danger of the Iraqi government’s reliance on Shia militias for its defense. BAGHDAD, Iraq — If the gunmen who carried out a mass killing Saturday night escape punishment it will be not only because the victims were prostitutes,…
The drug trade is, in a word, enormous – of total global crime proceeds, the United Nations has estimated that some $350 billion comes from the sale of illicit drugs. But the economic costs are only one measure of the ineffectiveness of drug policies. When the human costs of violence, human rights…