I’m sitting on the plane to Israel with Dr. Mehmet Oz, his wife Lisa, his kids, my wife Debbie, and three of our nine children. It’s Mehmet’s first ever visit to the Jewish State and we’ve been talking for almost
Shebab Islamists claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a Turkish embassy annex in Mogadishu on Saturday that killed a Turkish guard and a Somali bystander. The Shebab claimed the attack in a post on their Twitter feed.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Morsi facing treason charge as millions demonstrate in Egypt Ousting Morsi may have saved Egypt from austerity, for a while Eastern Mediterranean becomes the next Persian Gulf Morsi facing treason charge as millions demonstrate
China just admitted to being in violation of American law on organic production, but no one on this side of the Pacific seems to care. We have all seen photos of algae blooms on China’s beaches. The blooms are caused
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has definitely soured on Barack Obama’s repeated “pivots” to the economy. Milbank wonders how the President can make news on the economy by “delivering the same message he gave in 2005?” By repeating the same
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in organic production and encourages natural compost. But it does not test for un-composted feces, relying instead on record-keeping and record-checking. At least 140 people across eight states have
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Taliban involvement in Syria threatens Turkey’s security The fall of Morsi in Egypt is significant blow to Turkey Survey finds increasing political corruption around the world JP Morgan advisor defrauds 82 year old grandmother
Egypt’s main coalition, which backed the military ouster of Mohamed Morsi, denounced a roadmap granting the interim president extensive powers ahead of new elections, further complicating a bloody transition to civilian rule. In the restive Sinai peninsula, two people were
Animal rights groups are attacking PETA for continuing to kill “an average of about 2,000 dogs and cats each year at its animal shelter” according to a report. As the New York Times notes, the shelter “does few adoptions —
Fifty-one people, mostly Mohamed Morsi loyalists, were killed in Egypt while rallying in favour of the ousted president, as the new rulers announced fresh elections by early 2014. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, which has led demonstrations against Wednesday’s overthrow of the
Dear Mr. President: Recent events in Egypt show the failure of your administration’s policies toward this largest of Arab countries. You helped in the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Very well. Americans should shed no tears for Mubarak’s departure. He stayed in
The Egyptian military opened fire on a crowd of unruly Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators who had staged a protest outside a military headquarters Monday, killing at least forty and wounding many others. In response, the country’s other major Islamic party, Nour,
On Sunday morning, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN pitched a segment on whether the United States needed to cut aid to Egypt. The information on the screen was accompanied by a picture of a flag … of Syria. The Syrian
The BBC is reporting that police have used tear gas and water cannons against protesters trying to enter Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey. The park is near the city’s Taksim Square and is the same park on which protesters converged for two
The Israeli media reported Sunday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will be pried free from his yacht to return to the Middle East this week to try, yet again, to convince Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate. In
Let’s take stock: Egypt is in flames, and both sides of the bubbling civil war hate Barack Obama and his foreign policy team. Turkey is descending into an Islamist sinkhole on a more controllable glide path, which means the Islamists
(AFP) – Troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad seized several buildings on the edges of rebel-held districts of Homs as they pressed an eight-day assault on the central Syrian city, activists said on Saturday. The army launched its all-out assault
Earlier this week, Breitbart News reported that a hepatitis outbreak, traced to Turkish pomegranate seeds, had taken place partly because the White House has delayed food safety rules that would allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to monitor imported foods.
(AP) By BARBARA SURK – Syria’s President Bashar Assad claimed in an interview published Thursday that countries conspiring against Syria have “used up all their tools” in their campaign to overthrow his regime. The remarks came as Western-backed Syrian opposition
On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) penned a scathing editorial in Foreign Policy ripping President Obama’s ambiguous foreign policy on Egypt. The Obama administration has hinted that it will cut aid to Egypt should the military depose Muslim Brotherhood president
On the heels of nationwide anti-government protests that have swept the streets of Turkey in recent weeks, Turkish officials are traveling to Switzerland to make the case that Istanbul is the right place for the 2020 Olympics. Turkish officials will
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com In stunning intervention, Egypt’s army sides with protesters against president Morsi Army says it will not stand idle while Egypt ‘is in severe danger’ How the world recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan In
This weekend we saw another leak from Edward Snowden, this time regarding the United States spying on the European Union’s mission in New York and it’s embassy in Washington DC. One document lists 38 embassies and missions, describing them as
The demonstrations that began Sunday in Cairo, Egypt against the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mohamed Morsi have attracted “millions” of supporters and many counter-demonstrators as well, making the protest the largest political event in the history of the world,
The Egyptian military estimates the demonstrations as “several million” strong. Why is there none of that Present at the Dawning of a New Age urgency to the media’s coverage this time? Is it because only Obama can bless an Arab
