It's ISIS vs. the World, Not Islam vs. the World
PARIS -- La Ville Lumi�re -- The City of Light -- and its magnificent icon, the Eiffel Tower, stood draped in eerie darkness. Parts of Paris were under curfew. Street cafes bore a haunted look....
View ArticleThe Outpost That Doesn't Exist in the Country You Can't Locate
A Base Camp, an Authoritarian Regime, and the Future of U.S. Blowback in Africa Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Admit it. You don’t know where Chad is. You know it’s in Africa, of course. But beyond...
View ArticleIsraeli president: ISIS jihadis are today's Nazis
Text smaller Text bigger Israeli President Reuven Rivlin UNITED NATIONS – The president of Israel compared the brutalities of ISIS and the Nigerian group Boko Haram to the Nazi genocide, declaring the...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo attack live: hunt near Paris intensifies, hostage fear,...
8.07pm: SHOTS were fired during a car chase and at least one hostage was taken to the north-east of Paris tonight, in the same area police were hunting for two heavily armed brothers accused of...
View Article#BringBackOurGirls campaigners fight apathy and government repression
Campaign to rescue abducted schoolgirls continues in face of Boko Haram violence and a public inured to death statistics...
View ArticleWorldview: Help Nigeria's girls
0 comments Travel Deals $39 & up -- Amtrak: One-Way Northeast Fares, 25% Off See all travel deals » Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 1:08 AM If it hadn't...
View ArticleBoko Loco: A View From Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria — On April 14th, more than 250 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their dormitories at the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a sleepy rural town in the Northern state of...
View ArticleNigeria: in defence of hashtags and #BringBackOurGirls
South Africans protest in support of more than Nigerian 200 girls abducted from their school. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA I am not Nigerian and I do not have constitutional rights accorded to me by the...
View ArticleHollywood glamour gals wake up to holy war
Text smaller Text bigger WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s leading foreign-policy experts has revealed to WND what he believes is the key to getting leftists to join the war on terror: Enlisting...
View ArticleAn Aging United Nations in 2015. But How About a New United Nations in 2020?
The new report from the Commission on Global Security, Justice, and Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, suggests that the 75th anniversary year in 2020 might be...
View ArticleNigerian President Promises Malala That Kidnapped Girls 'Will Be Returned'
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan promised Malala Yousafzai that the missing Nigerian schoolgirls "will be returned as soon as possible," the activist said, succeeding where protests and Twitter...
View ArticleKrauthammer: The sound, the fury, the tweet
"Michelle Obama's tweeting #BringBackOurGirls for the nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists poses an interesting case of the semiofficial tweet," writes Charles Krauthammer. (Ben...
View Article'Peace for Paris' symbol goes viral
A "Peace for Paris" symbol, combining the city's beloved Eiffel Tower with the peace sign of the Sixties, has gone viral following the Paris terror attacks. The designer is a 32-year-old French graphic...
View ArticleKrauthammer: Obama’s embarrassing foreign policy by hashtag
WASHINGTON — Mass schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria – to tweet or not to tweet? Is hashtagging one’s indignation about some outrage abroad an exercise in moral narcissism or a worthy new way of standing...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: The hashtag activism of Twitter
Washington Mass schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria — to tweet or not to tweet? Is hashtagging one's indignation about some outrage abroad an exercise in moral narcissism or a worthy new way of standing...
View ArticleThe one chart that proves how fickle we are over #bringbackourgirls
On 13 April 2014, a group of militants from the notoriously brutal group Boko Haram broke into a school in Chibok, Nigeria, and kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls. More than 200 remain missing a year...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: Hashtag activism: To tweet or not to tweet?
Mass schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria – to tweet or not to tweet? Is hashtagging one’s indignation about some outrage abroad an exercise in moral narcissism or a worthy new way of standing up to bad...
View Article#BringBackOurGirls: Why hashtag activism has its critics
By now, chances are you've seen the tweets. The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has gone viral on social media — drawing attention to the plight of the hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from their...
View ArticleClooney, Clinton and useless 'soft outrage'
(CNN)After the Paris attacks by al Qaeda-aligned Islamic terrorists, much of the world -- even some Muslim world leaders -- seems united in the defense of free speech and freedom of religion. And at...
View ArticleThe interesting origin of the Eiffel Tower peace sign
An artist's reactionary sketch that he drew following the news of the attacks on Paris has gone viral. How to add the French flag to your Facebook profile Artist Jean Jullien was on vacation when he...
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