by Rosemarie M. Esber | May 14, 2016 | News
What would you do if armed men burst into your home in the middle of the night and screamed, "Leave or be killed?" For the over 800,000 Palestinians uprooted during the 1948 Palestine war, survival-and the threat of death-forced them into bitter exile. Every...
by Peter Van Buren | Apr 2, 2016 | News
The next time a candidate or reporter asks during a debate about education or healthcare “But how are you going to pay for that?” I would like the person being questioned to respond “The same way we find money to pay for Iraq.”So maybe it would...
by Peter Van Buren | Mar 9, 2016 | News
Yep, you should care. Very much. Hang up the phone and listen.What This is All AboutThe FBI wants Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in the December San Bernardino shooting. Specifically, the Bureau wants Apple to create...
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 25, 2016 | News
Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton both want the U.S. government to set up a “safe zone” in Syria to care for refugees from the raging civil war. You may assess their judgment by noting that Secretary of State Clinton and Sen. Rubio also pushed for...
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 7, 2016 | News
Lethal drones have come to symbolize “smart power” to Democrats. In the first Democratic presidential debate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went so far as to characterize the “no boots on the ground” 2011 intervention in Libya as...