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For months now, the steady drumbeat of criticism against UN Ambassador Susan Rice has been focused on her bungled handling of the Benghazi attacks. However, as the New York Times reported on Monday, Rice’s failure as a civil servant extends...
Palestinians watch President Mahmoud Abbas's speech to the UN, projected onto the Israeli Separation Wall in Bethlehem, the Occupied West Bank Yesterday, thousands took to the streets of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Facebookistan to celebrate Palestine’s...
Have we finally reached a tipping point? The most recent government massacre of civilians in Houla, Syria, has been perhaps the most audacious yet, leaving 108 dead–including 49 children. Eyewitness accounts are heart wrenching. How long...
As Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was making a whirlwind tour of foreign dignitaries to persuade them against supporting Palestine’s inclusion in the United Nations, President Mahmoud Abbas was contented in watching the very first seedlings...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinean President Mahumoud Abbas shake hands at an American photoshoot. In late September, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole legitimate representative for Palestinians,...
Art by Amelia Fawcett In 2007, the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international scientific body that reviews and assesses studies related to climate change, released a report that stated, “Warming...
Yesterday the Revolutionary Guard, the elite sector of the Iranian military, held war games in the Hormuz Strait, a strategic part of the Persian Gulf oil route, in a move clearly designed to provoke the United States and demonstrate Iran’s...
Iran faces sanctions from China and Russia In a surprise move earlier today, China and Russia both indicated their willingness to set economic sanctions against Iran in order to deter it from developing nuclear weapons. The two countries, however,...
Anna Alwoch (pictured), 65, had her lips cut off in front of her children by the Lord's Resistance Army This week, a massacre which was purported to have occurred around Christmas last year in the Democratic Republic of Congo was confirmed....