Iraq: Al-Sadr Calls On Iraqis To “Resist The Occupiers”
UPDATE: Friday, January 7 at 11:30 PM – US (PST) Saturday in Najaf, cleric Al-Sadr called the United States, Israel and Britain “common enemies” and he is urging his followers to “resist the occupiers”. This was his first public speech since his return to Iraq. He delivered the speech in front of a cheering crowd […]
Disasters In 2010: Nine-Tenths Were Severe Weather-Related Events Linked To Climate Change
Globally, a growing majority of people are starting to understand that climate change and global warming mean extreme weather. Last week New Yorkers were under two feet of snow. In Australia, Queensland is experiencing a flood of biblical proportion that covers an area as big as France and Germany combined. In 2010, floods killed thousands […]
Al-Qaeda’s Mission: Demonizing Islam
By Anthony Zeitouni TIME magazine named Facebook’s Co-Founder and CEO Zuckerberg, 26, as Time’s Person of the Year 2010. Meanwhile Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, was recently named the “Stockholm bomber” after he blew himself up in a street in Stockholm last week in a suicide attack. What a paradox, two young men of a similar […]
Egypt Church Bloodbath: Are We Heading For Another Decade Of Violence?
The first decade of the new millennium was marked by wars, conflicts and horrendous violence or crimes committed in the name of God. During Christmas celebrations, churches were attacked in Nigeria. In Iraq, the few Christians left are facing persecution for their faith, and are fleeing the country in large number. In the last 10 […]
Support Our Troops: Stop Climate Change!
Following up on Gilbert Mercier’s Obama’s Afghan Strategy For A War That Can’t Be Won I would like to offer two other perspectives on the Afghan War, the first much more microscopic, the second more macroscopic. To begin I would like to introduce you to the too little known Afghanada, “an award-winning Canadian radio drama […]
