Yahoo! News
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States has converted him into a believer in global warming.
“We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels,” Robertson said on his “700 Club” broadcast. “It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is […]
People’s Daily Online
Iranian Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslims on Wednesday to resist Israel and the United States, vowing Iran would support Lebanon in the confrontation of the Israeli attacks.”Muslims in the world must understand the only method to fight back the savage wolf of Zionism and Great Satan’s aggression is resistance,” […]
San Francisco Chronicle
Hezbollah shattered two days of relative calm in northern Israel on Wednesday, spraying the region with more than 230 rockets that set buildings and forests ablaze, wounded at least 33 civilians and killed a man as he rode his bicycle in front of his home.As Hezbollah launched its largest barrage of the 3-week-old […]
Ynetnews reports of a Lebanese website that claims Hezbollah specifically orchestrated the Qana civilian deaths. I don’t know how credible this is, obviously Hezbollah doesn’t make any effort to prevent civilians from being killed but I don’t know if they would go as far as bringing in disabled children for slaughter. Even if they would […]
Times Online
Since 2001 the region has been turned into an ideological battleground between two rival camps with global ambitions. One camp, led by the United States, claims to represent the modern global system of open markets, free elections, religious freedoms and sexual equality. The other camp is represented by radical Islam, which regards the Western […]
Guardian Unlimited
For nearly half a century, the CIA and Cuban exiles in Miami have been trying to assassinate Fidel Castro but have never been able to remove him. Today came the news that the world’s longest-serving leader was, at least temporarily, relinquishing power to his brother, Raul, because of ill-health caused by an “intestinal crisis” […]
