On June 5, 2009 Barack Obama made a speech in Cairo calling for “A New Beginning” between the United States and Muslims around the world. He rallied the Middle East and disillusioned Arabs from...
About thirty years ago, there was an informal secret society in the city of Cork. Perhaps a loose net of those with a shared interest might be more accurate. This group passed the names of certain...
Thursday was the first anniversary of the publication of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse. Commonly called the Ryan Report, its publication cumulated in the realisation of the extent of the...
Born in Yemen, Victoria Clark was an Observer journalist in post-Communist Romania and in ex-Yugoslavia during Croat and Bosnian wars. From 1990-1996, Clark was stationed in Moscow. Her latest book...
In the nine-minute video for “Born Free,” a song on M.I.A.’s upcoming album, riot police storm an apartment building and round up all the redheaded males. During the raid, the police burst in...
When the president selected then-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to serve as head of Department of Homeland Security, Arizonans were assured that nothing horrific would transpire during...
If you’ve been perusing my home blog and other transgender-themed blogs across the Internet recently, you may have noticed the TDOR acronym pop up, and wondered what it means. TDOR stands for the...
The escalating death rate, coupled with the shortage of the vaccine, has fuelled a public panic surrounding the H1N1 virus. The limited supply of vaccines has caused the U.S. government to focus on...
June 6 was “The Pill Kills Day” according to extreme anti-choicers who believe that not only should women not be allowed to have abortions, but that birth control pills actually kill babies. This...
File this under either more evidence that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a sleazeball who will never deliver peace to the Middle East, or as proof that Netanyahu’s hands are tied much more...
