Dalia Mogahed, a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is fighting controversy over her online remarks about Israel. On March 10, Mogahed tweeted her opposition to embattled Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, listing as one
(AP) Suicide blasts kill dozens in Syrian capitalBy ELIZABETH A. KENNEDYAssociated PressBEIRUTTwin suicide car bombs struck intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 140, according to state media. State TV aired
Faye Dunaway once told me that to play a role she had to commit to the character with all her heart and soul. She needed, she explained, to love the character. In terms of performance this means the actor has
Hundreds of activists in a “Freedom Convoy” who tried to enter Syria from Turkey were stopped near the border on Thursday, as the uprising against the Damascus regime entered its second year. Turkish police stopped hundreds of mostly Syrian activists
From the Guardian: Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails reveal. A senior aide to Asma al-Assad, Fares Kallas, took issue with the site over 11 accounts.
Remember when the Obama Administration, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, vowed to hit the reset button with Russia? That hasn’t worked out too well. Yesterday, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister, Anatoly Antonov, said that Russia would continue to abide by
(AP) Egypt: Cease-fire between Israel, Gaza militantsBy IBRAHIM BARZAKAssociated PressGAZA CITY, Gaza StripEgypt has mediated a cease-fire between Palestinian militant factions and Israel after four days of violence, an Egyptian security official said. The official told The Associated Press that
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There is good news and bad news. First, the good news: on his Media Matters blog MJ Rosenberg has promised he will no longer use the antisemitic term “Israel firster” to describe Americans who support Israel. The bad news is
Saturday Night Live took on the Rush Limbaugh-Georgetown Law student political firestorm, with Taran Killam playing Limbaugh giving a list of his new sponsors since calling Sandra Fluke a slut. The new sponsors included Sherman’s Imitation Mayonnaise, Syria Tourism Board,
(AP) Syria assaults opposition as diplomacy staggersBy BEN HUBBARDAssociated PressBEIRUTSyria launched a long-anticipated assault to crush the opposition in the rebellious north on Saturday, bombarding its main city with tank shells from all sides and clashing with rebel fighters struggling
(AP) Syrian opposition rejects talks with regimeBy BEN HUBBARD and ZEINA KARAMAssociated PressBEIRUTA high-profile international mission to end the Syrian crisis stumbled Friday before it began as the opposition rejected calls by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan for dialogue with President
Just as Koran-Burning Rage 2012 must not be seen as an isolated event but rather as a cycle of sharia ascendancy, or, as indicated in my last column, another notch in our decline into dhimmitude, so, too, the advance of
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared at a Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing, where he said “legal basis” was needed to initiate a no-fly zone over Syria.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Merkel and other European leaders conspire to get Sarkozy reelected Netanyahu and Obama have ‘somber’ and ‘businesslike’ White House meeting Hizbollah provides only lukewarm support for Syria’s al-Assad Private Greek investors’ acceptance of ‘voluntary’
Middle East expert Fouad Ajami of the Hoover Institution says that Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad may be declaring victory. He’s defied the outside world by continuing to exterminate his own people, with nobody able to stop him. By now, the
Residents of a Syrian town of Qusair struggle with their daily live with food supplies, medicine and fuel running out.
(AP) Syria hands over bodies of 2 foreign journalistsBy ALBERT AJIAssociated PressDAMASCUS, SyriaThe bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed in shelling while trapped inside a besieged district in the central Syrian city of Homs have left Syria late
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. EU approves partial bailout of Greece Greece’s debt default is still not a ‘credit event’ Russia and China express ‘deep disappointment’ in Syria In Iran’s elections Friday, it’s Ahmadinejad versus the Supreme Leader EU
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syrian regime begins ground invasion of civilian neighborhoods in Homs North Korea says it will suspend nuclear activities for food Egypt lifts travel ban on detained Americans India reverses position and backs Arab League
From AFP: American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs, her employer The Sunday Times said. Colvin and a group of other
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hillary Clinton calls Russia and China ‘despicable’ over Syria veto Saudis walk out of Syria conference, demanding military response Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez flies to Cuba for urgent surgery Greece launches ‘voluntary’ bond swap deal for
