Warnings From Jeremiah
As I read Jeremiah, I cannot help but see the parallels between the United States and Israel of old. Do
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Egypt
Standing by Israel’s Side
After the attack on Israel by Hamas, I honestly didn’t know what to say. For years I thought — and
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Maryland’s Cardin vows to halt military aid to Egypt over human rights abuses
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, the newly-appointed chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has announced plans to block future U.S. military aid and arms sales to Egypt unless that country shows “concrete, meaningful, and sustainable steps” to improve its human rights record.
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April Letters to Jim: We Are All April Fools
Top illustration by Tim Forkes We are one-fourth the way through the year and already it is much different than
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Exodus: Gods and Kings: It’s close to being God-Awful
2 out of 4 stars Exodus: Gods and Kings could have been an epic, 3D masterpiece with director Ridley Scott
Read moreMichael Brown fades from spotlight
Do we still remember this? Should we even be taking about it now, two months later? Hell, we got NFL
Read moreAl Jazeera journalists convicted and sentenced in Egypt sparks protest
Alli McCracken, national coordinator for CODEPINK Human Rights activists staged a protest Tuesday in front of the Egyptian Defense Office
Read moreCODEPINKS’ Medea Benjamin: ‘I was detained and beaten by Egyptian Security!’
Medea Benjamin, the cofounder of the Women for Peace organization CODEPINK, was detained Monday at the Cairo, Egypt airport. She
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