North Korea: moment of explosion or bluff? And why Kim Jong Un is not crazy.

The Norks are doing it in the usual style , which is not to say much if there is no quote: We formally inform the White House and Pentagon t...

New Pope: Francis. Mazel tov!

But even this will not help the Argentina's national team in the Mondial next year. No, sir.

Some people just don't learn, do they?

We all know (because we're on this site, we are, by definition, highly informed) that proportionately more Austrians joined the Nazi par...

Pakistan: where it's a blasphemy to be against the blasphemy laws

If the case against Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., is indeed going to proceed, this will create a ...

No further comment is necessary

Just post this under the above heading, given that the article is about a surge in the sale of kosher meat in the UK, following the "h...

Yes, where in the world is Gérard Depardieu?

If the Brits cornered the irony market, French folks are doing quite well with sarcasm, as this article on the man they love to hate now sh...

On Jewish British Prime Ministers - and some corrections

" If the latest polls hold true , Britain appears to be two years from electing a Jewish prime minister. Labor holds its biggest lead i...

FAA moves closer to widespread US drone flights

That's what they say here . Hm... does it mean that all these goings-on with drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen etc - all this is ju...

The Bulgarians get it right

According to The Times of Israel , via the Hamas website al-Risala, "...Bulgarian security officials came to the hotel where the delega...

The horsemeat scandal, globalization and its victims

Meat industry under scrutiny as horsemeat scandal spreads is the headline of the article. Again, the bloody fingerprints of globalization a...

UN Human Rights Council threatens Israel with unspecified "action"

The UN HRC is due to carry out an "inspection" of Israel's human rights next week (the one commencing 4 February). Israel has...

Hillary discovers jihadism on the rise

Now that she is on the way out and doesn't have to toe the line, Ms Clinton has suddenly deviated from the official WH line that says t...

Chuck Hagel controversy and beyond

There is so much that was already said about the Hagel's nomination that the hearings in his case could be canceled in favor of quick ba...

Russia: already grieving about Chavez

Venezuelan vice president, Nicolas Maduro, is maneuvering between the pressure to tell some truth about Chavez' state of health and the...

Learning English from CIA

The sentence that caught my attention in this article is at the end of the quote: The official, described as having direct knowledge of an ...

Copenhagen: Jews and policemen, beware

The first category mentioned above is not a big surprise for anyone who watches the news from Northern Europe - the cradle of most progressi...

The dead who guard Mount Everest

Read this .

Who didn't have sex with neanderthals?

I took personally these insinuations from Fox. I would have issued a strong protest, declaring that I never laid a finger or even thought a...

Italy: the verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous.

The decision of an Italian court is a sad milestone in relationship between democracies and science: At the end of a 13-month trial, six sc...

Just when you thought it was safe to visit France...

So I opened my on-line copy of The Tablet and out fell this little gem . It would seem that the French coppers are not nearly as incompetent...