Tireless Guantánamo chronicler Andy Worthington will be on our side of the Pond over the next couple of weeks promoting his new movie, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, based on his research. Here in New York, I'll be attending his talk at (surprisingly...
Chinese PM Served Up Some Sole, Too
The bottom of your shoe, not the fish. The fantastic trend of protesters showing their disdain for dictators and other official criminals by tossing a shoe (or two) at them continues in Britain, as an as-yet unidentified "European" man hurls his footwear at Chinese PM...
Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says -- and he should know -- there is no difference between the policy of "absolute support" for Israel between Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Obama's own spokesman Robert Gibbs affirmed that, as under Bush, "all options remain on...
Did Mugabe Finally Croak?
This might just be the Miami in me (Castro is dead...now! ...nnnnow! ...nnnnnnnow!), but Zimbabwe suddenly nixing price controls and allowing foreign currency to be exchanged freely, with mea culpa from the finance minister and no comment from the 85-year-old dictator...
Somalia Ruined: Intervention Fails Again
I predicted when the Ethiopians rode into Mogadishu in January, 2007, that the minute they fled with their tails between their legs, the Islamists would swarm back in to retake their place of power. I was right, but the time period was off -- only because the...
It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew
It can often be difficult being a Jew and a proponent of individual rights for all when that clashes with the actions of the Jewish state that claims to represent and defend you. For years I have fought to just educate my family members on some basic facts on the...
Jerusalem Post Cranks Out More Hasbara Fodder
In the course of approving news links this morning, I read this article from the Jerusalem Post that claims that Hamas has taken to seizing and selling truckloads of international aid "to the highest bidders." I looked for a few minutes for a mention of this in other...
The Spineless Huffington Post Gives ‘Equal Time’
Huffington Post was so very kind this week to give space to almost frustratingly moderate Palestinian intellectual Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi. In his well-reasoned article, "Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood," he supplied all the basic facts behind...
Say What You Will About Cynthia McKinney…
But no matter what one thinks of Ms. McKinney, she backs her convictions not just with her own money but her very skin: she went as a human rights advocate aboard a Gaza relief boat. And this morning, that boat was rammed three times by an Israeli patrol vessel, leaving it damaged and forcing it to take a detour in Tyre, Lebanon.
First Amendment Takes Another Hit
Fellow Brooklynite Javed Iqbal, 45, today plead guilty to broadcasting Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV programming to US customers. The charge is "providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization." Eric brought this news item to my attention and asked if I...
