Israeli soldier sentenced for 18 months for killing injured Palestinian attacker The Guardian An Israeli military medic who was captured on camera killing an incapacitated Palestinian attacker last year has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. | Elor Azaria’s sentence was imposed by a panel of three judges sitting in a military court in Tel Aviv. | Prosecutors had demanded a sentence of ...
McCain warns of those who are 'giving up on the West' CNN (CNN)Sen. John McCain sought Friday to assuage international fears that America is no longer concerned with being a globally minded leader in "dangerous times" -- but he also warned against a "sense that many of our peoples, including in my own country, are giving up on the West." | "I know there is...
Homosexuality and western media Business Day Online The last few years has been seen a revolution in human sexual behaviour; some good, some not so good. We have now reached the level where English words have changed their meaning. Marriage used to mean a union between a man and a woman. To-day it mea...
Fear led us to intern Japanese Americans. Who’s next? The Miami Herald Imagine this. | You are a boy, living in a child’s blissful unaware. You are not terribly different from other kids. Maybe you play stickball in the street and pretend to be Joe DiMaggio. Maybe you listen to “The Lone Ranger” on the Philco. May...
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj – Review by Chris Buckham War History Online Intratheatre civil conflict, with its roots in religion, tribalism or ethnic differences, represents some of the most brutal and savage of conflicts. When initiated by political forces seeking advantage over rivals it quickly gets out of control and ...
White Rose: The German Anti-Nazi Activists Beheaded in 1943 War History Online Across Germany and especially in Munich, the city where they were most active, people remember and honor, by naming streets, monuments, even a top literary prize after the Scholl siblings and their bold protest group White Rose. To many Germans and t...
David Miliband: assault on UK foreign aid spend is populism at its worst The Guardian The media-led assault on the British aid budget represents all the worst aspects of populism, David Miliband will say on Wednesday, warning of the dangers of falling victim to the virus of fake news and blaming others for Britain’s problems. | The ...
Commentary: Each of us can work to preserve dignity in the public square Philadelphia Daily News For more than 250 years, the American public square has been home to the free exchange of ideas, information, and perspectives. Newspapers, public debates, oratory, and more recently radio, television, and the internet - all part of the public square...
Muslims speak out against Santa Fe police sergeant’s Facebook posts Albuquerque Journal The probe is over public Facebook posts by Baker as far back including memes that call the NAACP racist and describe refugees of “invaders” and one that shows a stick figure being run over by a car with the words, “All lives splatte...
'Everybody': Theater Review The Hollywood Reporter Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the author of such acclaimed plays as 'An Octoroon' and 'Gloria,' delivers an experimental modern riff on the 15th-century morality play, 'Everyman.' | The one thing you know for sure about a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play is tha...
Judge blocks Texas cutting Medicaid to Planned Parenthood Yahoo Daily News More | AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can't cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that launched Republican efforts across the U.S. to def...
South Sudan promises 'unimpeded' aid access amid famine The Roanoke Times WATAMU, Kenya (AP) — South Sudan's president said Tuesday his government will ensure "unimpeded access" for all aid organizations, a day after famine was declared for more than 100,000 people in the country suffering from years of civil war. | The United Nations and others have long accused the government of blocking or restricting aid delivery i...
Nike commercial celebrates Arab female athletes 'to inspire others' CNN (CNN)"What will they say about you?" is a rhetorical question with which many women and girls in the Middle East are all too familiar. Young women pursuing their dreams irrespective of the rigid traditional gender roles in the region often find themselves under the scrutiny of their communities. | And it's those women and girls that sportswear manu...
