 Heroic Israeli leaders to decide on Iran attackSome of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death.
If one is to believe the threats that are ramping up at warp speed, Israel will... | |
 Police hunt down Mexican drug cartel accusedMexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.
Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by... |
| Banned terrorist outfits' activities will be hard to stop until Pak Army stops supporting them: Editorial The activities of banned terrorist outfits will definitely be a humongous task to stop because they were allegedly created and nurtured by Pakistan's military, an editorial has claimed.
Banned... |
| A love that is all-consuming Krishna spells out the sure method to attain any goal that you have set for yourself in the Bhagwad Gita's ninth chapter. He tells Arjuna, "Give your mind wholly to me, be my devotee,... |
| 'Cricket seemed a neat way to talk about Sri Lanka' Please tell us about your book. The idea was basically a detective story about a drunk who's trying to track down a mysterious cricketer. I was working at the time as a copywriter in advertising... |
| The court strikes back telecom licences issued in 2008 by ex-telecom minister Andimuthu Raja has evoked several strong responses. One is a feeling of schadenfreude: glee that some companies have been stripped of their... |
| McKees Rocks police catch car jacker It took a high-speed chase, a pursuit on foot, and a scuffle, but two McKees Rocks police officers on routine patrol spotted a car jacking in progress and arrested a suspect. A news release from the... |
| The state of play, on the field and in D.C. (CBS News) I have a confession here. My expertise in Roman numerology goes to about 20 - once we go beyond XX, I have no idea what number we're talking about, so I couldn't tell you how... |
| Occupy Pittsburgh clearing out but some resist Some members of the grassroots movement known as Occupy Pittsburgh appear this morning to be pulling out of their encampment on BNY Mellon's property. Others appear determined to remain at the... |
| In Pittsburgh, two controversial cases reveal divide between the black community and the police November 1996: Brentwood police Officer John Vojtas looks away from protesters in front of the Allegheny County Courthouse, as he and his legal team cross Grant Street during a recess in now-Sgt.... |
| The Next Page / The poet and a farmer in Fredericksburg: Walt Whitman and my uncle in a Civil War hospital Using his uncle's Civil War diaries, Mark A. Miner chronicles how the not-yet-famous poet and his uncle overlapped in their service to wounded... |
| Editorial: Expats across Ditch get fair enough deal On the day that New Zealand is, or should be, most conscious of its national pride, it seems timely to suggest we should stop pleading for instant access to Australian social welfare. Every time the... |
| Ben Stein: Wealth and misery in the news (CBS News) News takes on deeper meaning when you put a human face on the statistics. Here's Ben Stein: A few days ago when I opened the newspaper the news was so strange that it made my head... |
| Editorial: No need to sign petition to initiate recall election for Laurance Anyone who is asked to sign a petition to force a recall election for Douglas County Commissioner Joe Laurance should think about the consequences of... |
| Why Do We Love The Giants? It's All Psychology New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning warms up before the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers last month in the City by the Bay. Oddsmakers have their money on Manning and his... |
| I Cannot Accept Piers Morgan as the 'new' Larry King Contributed by : Carol Gould Editor's Note in January 2012:In light of the troubled and troubling Republican primary debates and ugly campaign rhetoric I remind readers of an editorial I... |
| Carol Gould's 'Spitfire Girls' on Amazon Kindle Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonWhy is British Television not covering the worst child abuse scandal in American history?Right now it is well into the wee hours and I am glued once again to... |
| Big blaze battled in Bridgeville Firefighters battled a blaze in Bridgeville this morning that destroyed an apartment building and spread to a neighboring structure. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire at 667 Baldwin... |
| Year of decision: Obama's address sets up his re-election hopes After three challenging years in office and before the revving of his re-election drive, the State of the Union message delivered by the 44th president of the United States had to be interesting, and... |
| Get it right: The county's assessment website is a valuable tool County Executive Rich Fitzgerald jumped the gun Monday when his office announced that the county had "an improved website" for the new property values of the court-ordered reassessment. It... |
| Listen up: Distracted walking begins to take a toll While legislators across the country debate bills on the dangers of driving while using a cell phone, a report last week added a new wrinkle to the epidemic of traveling while distracted. A study... |
| Letters to the Editor: Double Taxation "The 'Buffett Rule,"' (Editorial, Feb. 2) incorrectly implies that people who earn millions of dollars a year, like Mitt Romney, only pay a 15 percent tax rate if most or all of their income comes... |
| Two injured in Beaver County car crash Two Beaver County residents were hurt Saturday in a car crash blamed on speed. State police at Beaver said Mark Frankenberry, 22, of New Brighton, was cited for driving at an unsafe speed following... |
| Op-Ed Contributor: Learning to Share the Stage Fifty years ago Monday, in a Waseda University auditorium in Tokyo, someone pulled the plug on Robert Kennedy's microphone. The attorney general had come to Japan to repair the U. S.-Japan alliance... |
| From the International Herald Tribune: 100, 75, 50 Years Ago 1912 Nanking Discusses Abdication
As the result of a conference of the Republican Assembly to-day [Feb. 4], which lasted till midnight, to discuss the scheme of abdication, it is expected that... |
| WLOX Editorial: Defense cuts challenge us Recently we learned that the Army and the Marine Corps will become a smaller fighting unit, the Pentagon and top defense officials propose to delay some ships and may even scrap some defense... |
| Egypt: Regime implicated in Port Said massacre Do you remember what happened on February 2 last year? On that day, one year ago, Tahrir Square was attacked by thugs on camels, horses and donkeys. These clashes, which lasted for hours and were... |
| GLW issue number 909 about GLW - the need for alternative media In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and... |
| What's hot at SFGate.com, Feb. 5 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug... |
| CLASS Act is dead, but Obama won't repeal it It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands for... |
| Drugs trump Afghanistan military concerns France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the... |
| Faith-based tolerance on gay marriage Washington state is promenading down a controversial aisle that's familiar to Californians after its Senate approved a bill last week legalizing same-sex marriage. The lower house and the... |
| Who reviews the U.S. 'kill list'? There has been remarkably little public debate in the U.S. about drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,300 people in Pakistan alone since President Obama came to... |
| An affront Catholics agree on Vatican Council in 1965, conservative and liberal Roman Catholics have been deeply divided over church teachings, many of them concerning marriage and sexual matters. Those who are more conservative... |
| Morrison: Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, and all that In a file picture taken on June 2, 1953 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II accompanied by Prince Philip waves to the crowd after being crowned during her coronation at Westminter Abbey in... |
| L.A.'s quirky Smoking Deaths billboard The Smoking Deaths billboard in West L.A. keeps a running tally of annual smoking deaths. Every year, on Dec. 31, a crowd gathers as the death-toll counter resets to... |
| Venice boardwalk ban goes too far In trying to crack down on the homeless and criminals, L.A.'s City Council is limiting the public's right to the boardwalk at certain hours. It amounts to a curfew, and it strikes us as... |
| Paying for stem cells: A bad idea blood and plasma, stem cells are usually obtained through an easy procedure, and the people who donate them quickly generate more. But in other ways, they're markedly different. There might be... |
| A Puritan's 'war against religion' GOP presidential candidates were charging that "elites" have launched "a war against religion," a federal court in Rhode Island ordered a public school to remove a prayer mounted... |
| TIMES article about Carol Gould and the General Medical Council's Failure to take Owen Gilmore to trial Contributed by : Carol Gould First published in August 2011 ( still no apology from Raoul's Cafe four months on) London I went to Raoul's deli in Clifton Rd W9 at 4pm on Friday 29... |
| We Don't Have to talk about my kind of Children Contributed by : Carol Gould It is now four years since I first wrote the following piece. A doctor in Arizona, Robert Kuske, whom I consulted by telephone told me in August 2010 that because I... |
| Guns, now butter: The Pentagon owes Americans real budget cuts President Barack Obama and every other American who believes that the Department of Defense has become oversized in the past 11 years of unremitting warfare must pay close attention as the Pentagon... |
| Seas of asphalt: Closed park-n-rides mean fast-filling garages Come September, it could be really easy to find a space at 18 of the Port Authority's park-n-ride lots. And that's bad news. The Port Authority has scheduled the closing of 2,900 of its... |
| Some like it hot: Gardeners and farmers get a new planting guide "Mary, Mary, quite contrary," asks a children's rhyme, "how does your garden grow?" When contrary Mary grows up and becomes a real gardening enthusiast, she will find that it... |
| Peru: Mining conflict heats up is alive and well in contemporary Cajamarca, in the form of the US-based Newmont mining corporation, an outfit with a slick PR machine and a very dirty environmental and human rights track record. ... |
| ExxonMobil pays no federal tax, refuses to pay for Alaska oil spill United States' oil giant ExxonMobil had the largest profits of the "big five" oil companies last year, raking in US$41.1 billion. This is a 35% jump from the year before. Here are a... |
| Western Sahara: Fresh brutality from occupying force A prison in Western Sahara. Laayoune is the largest settlement in Western Sahara territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The Sahrawi people continue to demand independence after... |
| John Pilger: Threat to Assange is a threat to us all The Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition... |
| Southern Europe faces fresh pain Anti-austerity protest in Barcelona, January 28. A vast icy pool of Siberian air, the coldest in 50 years, settled over all Europe in late January. At least 150 people without shelter were killed. ... |
| Capitalism's destructive car mania detailed By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing 2011, 259 pages, $27.95 (pb) The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler who took a bus ride across... |
