The Israel lobby and Republican neocons have scored their first triumph of the Obama administration by derailing the appointment of Chas. Freeman as director of the National Intelligence Council. The next time anyone qvells about how moderate a Republican Olympia Snowe is just remember that it was p...

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It can only spell a collection from the post-apocolyptic maestro Jean Pierre Braganza. For AW09 he invites us to imagine an alternative world where the Native Amercicans were not supressed by the settlers and went onto rule the world. A tall order as it's hard to imagine these once proud and ple...

The nominee, Kaspar Villiger, was first official to apologize for Switzerland’s World War II refugee policy of turning away thousands of Jews....

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On reflection, what I realise about my trip to London is that I just needed more time. If I'd had another day there I could have fit in all the things I wanted to do. I love the city very much indeed and being back in Glasgow has made me realise it even more. Thinking about my time there, the hi...

President Obama names new communications team – no Arabs includedBy Ray Hanania It's hard to fight anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in the mainstream news media, let alone in mainstream society, if no one wants to help. Being Arab is a double-edged scimitar. Everyone knows you are a problem from all...

There is a storm brewing among Tennessee Democrats. The selection of Bill Freeman as Treasurer of the Tennessee Democratic Party is now a national story. The Associated Press picked up the story, verified the facts, and ran it. The State Party is looking more like the keystone cops everyday and the ...

"Big Tim" , with eyes widely opened, gazes in awe with a prize he has earned after calling St. John the Evangelist Cathedral home (see Milwaukee's cathedral before it was wreckovated by Abp Weakland - his predecessor, and after ). His new home will be the ever-beautiful St. Patrick's in New York. PH...

Last Sunday, in introducing an ongoing Chicago Tribune effort titled "State of Corruption," we told you we would advance reforms to combat the culture of political sleaze at all levels of government in Illinois. This Sunday we're pleased to report that Ald. Patrick O'Connor, Mayor ...