Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
FOCUS: INTERVIEW Israel’s ‘unspoken alliance’ By Laila El-Haddad Author says there are both similarities and differences between the actions of the Apartheid government in South Africa and those of the Israeli government [EPA] Sasha Polakow-Suransky, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs, poured through 7,000 pages of never-before-seen classified South African documents while researching his book,…
FOCUS: OPINION The roots of Israeli exceptionalism By Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti Aggression immersed in victimhood is a striking reality of the Israeli discourse An American academic once told me: “Many people in the Islamic world think America does not believe in human rights, but they are wrong; America believes in human rights indeed, the problem…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Threats began 2 weeks ago after off-duty officers seized marijuana * Smugglers fled into Mexico and were not detained * Informants say cartel threatens off-duty cops who interfere with smuggling operations
We’ve gotten to a point where society is so unmanageable we must partition ourselves off from every feature of it. With too many fists slung, too much spittle hurled, too many guns pointed, too many bats swung, it has now become necessary for tellers, bus drivers and even cashiers to partition themselves from customers. A…
So, instead of moralizing about corruption or incompetence when we see it in a sports competition, we would be better off sitting back and enjoying the “hand of God” in action.
In the 10 years before his sudden death at 58 in 1987 Andy Warhol had more new, good ideas about making paintings than he knew what to do with. But he rarely let on.
Cameron Diaz: ‘I’m Always Traveling’ to Get Laid My booty has been on hiatus from film but certainly not from everyday life, where it doesn’t stop moving. It’s in constant sway and has a mind of its own. On camera, though, there just hasn’t been an opportunity for it to assert itself lately (Newser) –…
Iceland’s parliament has passed a sweeping press freedom bill pushed by Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, in a marathon all-night session. Assange STATED that the goal was to make Iceland a “journalism haven” that would be an attractive home base for investigative reporters from around the world. The law sought to combine pro-press…