International Political Will

There is one scene in Slumdog Millionaire – perhaps only 3 or 4 seconds long – where a man on the street looks directly at the camera and utters “no filming.”
I’m not sure why the director kept the shot in the final cut, but the scene demonstrates just how real the visuals are. The movie [...]

Last week, the New York Times published an article headlined “Why the Arabs Splinter Over Gaza” that was anything but a description of “why.” The story was actually just another example of observations disconnected from context that masquerade as news.
Three Arab countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan) refused to attend an Arab League summit on [...]

There are a few things in life that have proved true over time:

HDTV is not a good thing when watching news anchors that have had too much plastic surgery.

Permanently wearing a blue-tooth earpiece does not make you richer, more professional, or more respected. It just makes you look like you wish you were a part [...]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
–George Santayana
There has been much chatter among the media (and the propaganda artists that serve as their meal tickets) about Hamas using the civilian population of Gaza as human shields.
Israel justifies the bombing of the UN school(s), the killing of more than a dozen [...]

Given the testimony of the top U.S. intelligence officials from the FBI and the Dept. of Homeland Security to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, I am now adding the title “Terrorism Expert” to my resume (or, in lieu of recent advice from my father-in-law, how about “Anti-Terrorism Consultant?”).
“[T]hree leading U.S. security officials told [...]