Iran’s umbilical cord to Syria is nauseatingly obvious when UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan has to go to Tehran to gain support for his faltering ceasefire plan. Yet for the Boston Globe to report “the visit is to stop the country’s slide into civil war” is a boldface lie. CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux has also downplayed [...]
As economic times get tougher in America there’s a general tendency (and growing apathy) to pay less attention to revolutions in the Middle East and more to our dwindling bank accounts. But we can’t become complacent while Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime goes home-to-home executing families any more than we can stop seeking out [...]
On a recent trip to San Francisco I had an interesting conversation with a self-described “anti-Zionist” Jewish cab driver. The cab ride was only about ten minutes yet a lot happened to transpire. The moment I entered the cab, the driver, an extrovert, immediately engaged me in conversation. I told him of my reason for being [...]
