Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
From Selma to Tunis: When Will We March Against the Segregation of Our Own Time?
This year, with good reason, Americans have celebrated the moment 50 years ago when the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans reached a decisive moment: the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery. The movie Selma won an Oscar. President Obama went to Selma and gave one of his finest speeches.Recent racially charged incidents in Ferguson,...
Russia Threatens To Aim Nuclear Missiles At Denmark Ships If It Joins NATO Shield
COPENHAGEN, March 22 (Reuters) – Russia threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO’s missile defense system, in comments Copenhagen called unacceptable and NATO said would not contribute to peace. Denmark said in August it would contribute radar capacity on some of its warships to the missile shield,...
The Tragedy of Bibi’s Victory
As the fog of shock begins to dissipate and the devastating reality sets in, it becomes clear that the results of Israel’s election constitute a loss for all involved. Let me count the ways.Israeli Arabs In the 11th hour of his campaign and in a last ditch effort to collect votes, Bibi publicly urged Jewish right-wing voters to the polls by...
Analysis Of MH17 Fragment Supports Missile Theory: Dutch TV
AMSTERDAM, March 19 (Reuters) – A metal fragment from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 matches a surface-to-air BUK rocket, a Dutch broadcaster said on Thursday, supporting a theory that the plane was downed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. The fragment was recovered by a Dutch journalist from the village of...
A Brief History Of Artists Grappling With Loss Through Their Work
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it,” Joan Didion wrote in A Year of Magical Thinking. Many of us are blind to the realities of loss and mourning until we’re confronted with it head on, whether in the face of a devastating news headline, a lifeless animal on the side of the road, or the life-altering...
Will the Market Forces Replace Sanctions in Pressuring Russia?
Co-authored by William Witenberg a contemporary artist focused on abstract painting The world is undergoing a wave of change. The world is seeing negative interest rates in European countries, the dollar is rising at a disturbingly fast rate, and most significantly, deflation the magnitude of which the world hasn’t been seen in decades is...
Europe’s Persistent Gap
It was a shock for many East Germans when they visited West Germany for the first time – not just in 1989 but way back in 1959. Thirty years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, West Germany had already recovered from the devastation of World War II. Between 1950 and 1960, the average GDP growth for West Germany was 8.2 percent, and it was...
Putin’s Pipeline Predicament
By Michael Haltzel, co-authored by Antto Vihma, Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and Michael Mehling, Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Policy Research at MIT. As Russia and Ukraine approach yet another confrontation over natural gas, the recent demise of Putin’s flagship...
Don’t Let the Crisis in Ukraine Damage Decades of Progress on Nuclear Cooperation
By General Norton A. Schwartz and Stanley A. WeissWASHINGTON AND GSTAAD–This December, the world will witness the 70th anniversary of a publication best known for tracking the end of the world. Founded in 1945 by veterans of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was launched in the...
Marco Rubio Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Defy European Allies And Revoke Iran Deal
WASHINGTON (AP) – Eying the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Tuesday he would “absolutely” defy stalwart European allies if necessary to revoke any Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from President Barack Obama. In an interview with The Associated Press, Rubio said the next U.S. president...
