Barack Obama did not tell the whole story when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi …
The House of Representatives left DC for the year yesterday, and with it they left behind a terrible bill. The US-Israel Strategic Partnership Act included admission for Israel into the US Visa Waiver Program, which would have codified in US law the right for Israel to discriminate against US citizens on the basis of religion …
The fuel crisis in Gaza is affecting essential services for Gaza’s population of 1.7 million people, including critical heathcare services and drinking water. In the West Bank, Palestinian casualties caused by military violence are at their highest level since 2005, including an alarming rise in the number of children injured. (Medical Aid for Palestinians). When …
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A Swedish psychiatrist turned author has caused controversy by claiming that his country’s liberal parenting practices are doing its children more harm than good. David Eberhard argues that parents in Sweden – which became the first country to ban smacking in 1979 – have effectively ceded control to their children. “They decide what is to …
Kevin Chenais, a 36-stone Frenchman, recently spent two weeks trying to get home from New York. British Airways said he was too big to use his return ticket, so he tried to sail across the Atlantic – but the owners of the Queen Mary 2 said they couldn’t have him on board. Eventually, Virgin offered …
