"Bush views new report on spy lapses with favor," was the headline on the New York Times story previewing the latest commission that reported several weeks ago on the manifest and manifold U.S. government intelligence failures in detecting...
Jasenovac and the Politics of Genocide On April 22, 1945, a group of surviving inmates broke out of Jasenovac, Nazi-allied Croatia's main death camp. Sixty years later, their memories – and the grisly history of Jasenovac – have become prey to politics,...
After years of planning and collaboration, San Francisco's Traveling Jewish Theatre has brought its new play Blood Relative to the stage. Formed with input from all five performers, along with director Aaron Davidman and dramaturg Naomi Newman, the play centers around...
If you've been following the news in recent days, you might have concluded that China resides in two parallel universes. First, there is the geo-economic universe in which China, the rising economic power with a huge current account surplus, is being urged by members...
An overstretched military? You bet. Things going terribly in Iraq? No kidding. Why only yesterday, Jill Carroll and Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor reminded us that, with 140,000 troops (and untold numbers of mercenaries) in Iraq, the Americans can't...
JERUSALEM - More than four years of violence between Israelis and Palestinians may have abated at least temporarily, but its effect is still being felt on relations between Jews and Arabs inside Israel. A string of recent polls, events and policy issues shows that...
David Horowitz and gang never cease to amaze. From their crackpot intellectualism to their red-baiting antics, it's clear the folks over at FrontPageMagazine.com are nothing short of fascist. On April 25, Ann Coulter wannabe and FrontPage darling Debbie Schlussel had...
KATHMANDU - It is perhaps too much to say that Lady Luck had never smiled on Gagan Kumar Thapa, a 28-year-old charismatic Nepali student leader at the forefront of Nepal's pro-democracy protests. But luck indeed never seemed to favor him. Charged with sedition for...
Memo to: Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Re: Just for the Fun of It Your column today on North Korea and the six nuclear weapons you say it has produced since George W. Bush has been president is probably wrong in assuming it really does have nukes, even though it...
NEW DELHI - India's plan to resume military assistance to Nepal, suspended after the Feb. 1 "royal coup" has nothing to do with China's offer of support to the regime of King Gyanendra, beleaguered by a nine-year Maoist insurgency, say security experts....
