As Obama Considers Iraq Strike, White House Spokesman Fumbles Anti-Genocide...
WASHINGTON -- In 2011, the White House issued a presidential study directive that states: "Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility...
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Emory Nurse: We're Treating Americans With Ebola Because 'It's The Right Thing'
Bringing two American doctors infected with Ebola back to the U.S. has unleashed a firestorm among critics. But those who are actually treating the patients say the U.S. is obligated to take care of...
View ArticleThe War Photo No One Would Publish - The Atlantic
When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.
View ArticleMatthew Lane Durham Pleads Not Guilty To Orphanage Sex Abuse
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma teen pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he sexually abused children at an orphanage in Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 19, was indicted on three felony...
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Does the New York Times Know the Difference Between a Rocket and a Bomb?
At this time of writing, the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has ended. Against the backdrop of Gaza's destruction, Israeli and Palestinian combatants are once again at war. In its...
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Will Zionism and Hamas Ideology Be Criminalized?
Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly Joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) remains one of few options for the "State of Palestine," but it's one with profound implications for Zionism...
View ArticleIselle Pummels Big Island, Weakens As It Passes The Hawaiian Islands
Hurricane Iselle had been downgraded to a moderate tropical storm by the time it swept across the Big Island early Friday morning, but it still brought strong winds, high surf and heavy rains — as much...
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Behold, The Beauty Of Pushkar's Holy Men
Fall in Pushkar, the Indian pilgrimage town, is busy season. In October comes the Camel Fair, an annual event that draws thousands of tourists intrigued by the sights -- the unending herds of camels...
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Meet The Lady Gaga Of Myanmar And The Growing Creative Class
This article originally appeared on Slate. By Jordan G. Teicher Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein (aka Lady Gaga of Myanmar), 32, singer. “They say I am too different, too bold, but I like bling blings and...
View ArticlePresident Obama Is Right to Block the Genocidal ISIS and Hold the Kurdish...
Any reasonable person should be deeply alarmed by the recent and current events in northern Iraq involving the brutal group ISIS, religious minorities, and the receding defense lines of the...
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First City in Iran to Ban Killing Stray Dogs and the Woman Behind It
Jila Pourirani at Pardise Animal Shelter, Credit: Facebook Shooting stray dogs is common practice in Iran. However, now the northwestern city of Tabriz has become the first and only city in the...
View ArticleIraq Arms Kurds Against ISIS
By Missy Ryan WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The Iraqi government provided a planeload of ammunition to Peshmerga fighters from Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region on Friday, a U.S. official said, in...
View ArticleThe Obama Doctrine
President Obama's announcement that the United States' will protect 40,000 Yazidis trapped on Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq is a decisive and timely response to an unfolding humanitarian disaster....
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Armenia and Its Russian-Imperialism Problem
Earlier this summer, a minor kerfuffle over an exhibition of artworks by famed Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) underscored a more serious problem facing Armenian culture and Armenia in...
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A Bittersweet Ending to The Official Story, Loaded With Learnings for the...
Credit: Mónica Hasenberg via Wikimedia Commons The miraculous finding of the kidnapped-at-birth grandson of the head of a leading Argentine human-rights organization is worthy of noting not just for...
View ArticleWhat We Need to Learn From the Ebola Epidemic
Luckily, the two Americans who received ZMapp, the new experimental drug for Ebola, seem to be improving, which holds great promise and hope for thousands of other people but also raises broader...
View ArticleISIS Militants Tell 300 Yazidi Families To Convert Or Die
BAGHDAD, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have threatened to kill more than 300 families from Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority unless they convert to Islam, witnesses and a Yazidi lawmaker told...
View ArticleRussian Navy Claims To Drive Away U.S. Submarine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state news agencies say the country's navy claims to have driven away a submarine believed to be American that entered Russia's northern waters. The reports Saturday cited an...
View ArticleThousands Of Iraqi Yazidis Flee To Syria After Kurds Open Safe Passage
Kurdish forces rescued 5,000 Yazidis who were stranded on Sinjar Mountain in Northwestern Iraq and had been in danger of dying of thirst, Al Jazeera reports. "I can confirm that we succeeded in...
View ArticleUN Security Council Discusses Resolution To Cripple Islamic State
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is negotiating a draft resolution to tackle Islamic State militants by financially weakening the jihadi Islamist group,...
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