There is a war going on. It’s a war against women. Beauty is under attack, not only the outward physical beauty but the deep femininity that exists within women. Today, after reading CNN’s article about the 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl lashed to death, my reaction was one of outrage. Her crime: adultery. Although, her family vehemently [...]
“I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.” Those were the words Barack Obama spoke in 2002 as President Bush mobilized a coalition to take down the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was merely one line in the Iraq speech that helped propel Obama to the U.S. Senate and to the [...]
The PBS Frontline segment on Pvt. Bradley Manning, accused of massive disclosure of classified material to WikiLeaks, this past Tuesday suggested that turmoil in his “personal life” was the prime cause of his decision to leak, as I observed in a piece here two days ago. In making this claim, the Frontline people ignored evidence [...]
The following article originally appeared in The Hill on March 29, 2011: On the same day we marked the eighth year of our involvement in Iraq, the United States began military airstrikes on Libya. While I agree with President Obama that our intervention helped to avert a humanitarian crisis, I remain gravely concerned about the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya after the agency’s station in the capital was forced to close, and officers assisted in rescuing one of the two crew members of an F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed, an American official and a former U.S. intelligence officer told The Associated Press [...]
March 30, 2011 9:18:16 PM LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – Two Reuters journalists are missing in Syria. Diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that correspondent Suleiman al-Khalidi, a Jordanian national based in Amman, had been detained by the Syrian authorities in Damascus on Tuesday. Photographer Khaled al-Hariri, a Syrian based in Damascus, has not been in [...]
If you tuned in to the news this week, you’ve seen two big stories dominating the headlines and the networks: the conflict in Libya and the pending budget negotiations. (For the record, I don’t count the escaped Bronx Zoo cobra as a big news story.) Both Libya and the budget are big stories; both are [...]
A freelance journalist who worked for Reuters was among at least 20 people killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Sabah al-Bazee, 30, who had contributed to Reuters in Iraq since 2004 and also worked as cameraman for several other media organisations, [...]
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BAGHDAD — A government spokesman says that among those killed in an hours-long siege at a local Iraqi government headquarters were 15 hostages who were slain execution-style before their captors blew themselves up. Salahuddin province media adviser Mohammed al-Asi says the attackers shot their hostages in the head as security forces closed in Tuesday in [...]
