Ben Zygier aka Prisoner X - the buzz, the facts and the eggs on faces

It seems that the story which began a few days back under headings alluding that Israel is abusing the human rights of a certain Prisoner X ...
"Innocence of Muslims", "Sam Bacile", cheap scoops and Faux News

As it happens frequently in the Muslim world, another manifestation of rage already took several lives, including that of American ambassado...
Good news from Germany(!?), bad news from elsewhere (so, what's new??)

"Germany has an “everlasting responsibility for the crimes of National Socialism, for the victims of World War II and, above all, for t...
Fatwa against Christmas and Facebook

In a normal course of events I would have skipped this blighted subject: verbal shenanigans of a certain imam or pastor or rabbi are interes...
Al Gore on Obama's lackluster performance

This is his explanation , take it or leave it: "Obama arrived in Denver at 2 p.m. today - just a few hours before the debate started,...
Alexander Prokhanov and Gaza

Some time ago I have tried to get our readers acquainted with the phenomenon of a Stalinist throwback, one Alexander Prokhanov . While readi...
Watcher’s Council Nominations – Playing Politics With Other People’s Money Edition

Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Policing the Schutzstaffel The Razor – Why I Oppose the Nomination of Susan Rice to Secretary of Stat...
Steve Apfel puts the boot into Richard Falk

And why not, one might ask. Falk is, after all, a very tempting target for those of us not already committed to Israel being irredeemably ev...
Sean Penn apparently lost something it never had

(If you found some strange syntax in the headline above, wait a bit). I am not jumping up and down of happiness because of Hugo Chavez'...
Woman with tadpoles in her mouth

Believe it or not : The airport said the woman, a foreigner, was found to have a bottle of liquid in her luggage at Guangzhou Baiyun Interna...