Earlier this week, President Obama declared, in his oval office address to the nation, that the US combat operations in Iraq were officially over. This is obviously an effort from the President to convince Americans, right before the November elections, that he has fulfilled one of his key 2008 campaign promises: To end the Iraq [...]

By Anthony Zeitouni Recently, I read a short piece of news in Arabic that the Emir of Qatar has officially approved the establishment of the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) as a “private institution for public benefit”, known in America as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). This pushed me to ask: can interfaith [...]

I despair when I hear people talk about climate change in terms of failing ski resorts and longer growing seasons. The disconnect between the common perception of what climate change really is and what people think it means is truly terrifying. One of the unfortunate things about Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is it led to [...]

After reviewing several legal complaints filled by Roma associations and human rights groups, the UN’s anti-racism and discrimination Committee  will  send a letter to put pressure on the European Union to urgently address the situation of the Roma and the Travelers  in the context of France’s controversial collective deportation of Roma conducted by the Sarkozy [...]

The reality of the situation is that there will be approximately 3000 less American combat/counterinsurgency troops in Iraq by the end of the month while 50,000 troops, and thousands of private mercenaries, remain. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.