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May 1, 2025
The approximately 91,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan that were leaked to Wikileaks.org caused cries of outrage. Unfortunately this outrage was for all the wrong reasons. Headlines read “Pakistan helping Taliban,” “The [Afghan] war takes a hit,” and the like. What they should have read is “Heads Role” and…
May 1, 2025
The war in Afghanistan is now in its ninth year and it is really difficult to find any positive change. Leadership is lacking, and though the President and his cabinet inherited this war, their approach is strikingly unchanged: more troops, little oversight and minimal planning. Further, despite a much needed…
May 1, 2025
President Obama said it in his Cairo speech: “tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.” Further, he should have added, this continued through…
May 1, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress this week to outline his plans for peace. It was, as expected, a love fest. Congress reacted to him like teenagers do to Beyonce and Lady GaGa. They drooled all over him. I couldn’t help thinking that…
May 1, 2025
Another day, another scandal. New York Representative Anthony Weiner is the next to decide to take the easy road to fame by photographing his body parts and tweeting them to a 21-year-old college student. In the good old days we called this sexual harassment. Today we just call it misjudgment.…
May 1, 2025
Tricia DeGennaro and James Rubin say an attack on a Kabul luxury hotel may complicate negotiations with the Taliban….on CNN
May 1, 2025
US Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, got together with his French counterpart and decided to take a trip down to the besieged town of Hama. It is true that the Assad family is unacceptably terrorizing its people for wanting to change many of the current governing policies in Syria, but…
May 1, 2025
The idiom “the calm before the storm” signifies a quiet period before great excitement or activity. In case our leaders are missing it, the calm is over and the world is directly in the storm’s wake. They are missing all the clues that their western based hegemonic system is just…
May 1, 2025
The Muddled Middle East We start today with the news that one more repressive government, this time in Libya, is gone – well more or less. So far it seems as though The National Transition Council (NTC) spokesperson Mustafa Adel Jalil, is in control control and saying all the right…
May 1, 2025
This week’s earthquake is all but a distant memory. After covering it incessantly for several hours, showing the horror of the tremor that knocked chairs over and shook the CNN newsroom, most news stations went back to their continuous coverage of “the almost fallen” “yet to fall” “inevitable fall” of…
Tricia’s Take: THINKING BEYOND WAR AND VIOLENCE
May 1, 2025
Time for Israel to Embrace the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring began 2010. Many across the region continue to protest against repressive governments that are robbing populations of…May 1, 2025
To go or NOT to go to war with Iran
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, is on his way to the United States to argue, again, for a war with…May 1, 2025
To Have or Not to Have Guns
One week ago twenty children in an American school were massacred in less than ten minutes by a semiautomatic weapon.…May 1, 2025
The Heresies of Humans
In the month of August 1945, Japan witnessed the most horrific human carnage. Two nuclear bombs plummeted from United States…