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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jews
January 16, 2011
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is commemorated today, Monday January 17. Of course, Dr. King is first and foremost a hero because of his great work on behalf of African-Americans, for, and with, whom he won the human rights...
Mental Illness, Not Politics, Was Likely Cause of Loughner’s Rampage
January 16, 2011
It is becoming increasingly clear that the killing spree of Jared Loughner, who claimed the lives of six and injured 14, including beloved Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was not fueled by political ideology; rather, it was the...
“Democracy … as Good as Christina Imagined It”
January 13, 2011
In his speech to the nation last night memorializing the victims of last Sunday’s massacre in Arizona, President Obama did something that may turn out to be epic.
He is a silver-tongued orator. But it was only yesterday evening that...
Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: “To Them, a Black Person … is an ‘Abid,’ which is a Slave;” Human Rights Groups in Sudan Free Slaves
January 11, 2011
Fighting in Southern Sudan’s disputed Abyei region claimed the lives of more than 30 people over the weekend, but voting that will allow the country’s Southerners – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native...
Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: “To Them, a Black Person … is an ‘Abid,’ which is a Slave”; Boston Jewish Columnist on the Ground to Free Slaves
January 10, 2011
Fighting in Southern Sudan’s disputed Abyei region claimed the lives of more than 30 people over the weekend, but voting that will allow the country’s Southerners – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native...
Americans Should Support Today’s Referendum – and Democracy in South Sudan
January 9, 2011
Today, Sunday January 9th, the people of Southern Sudan will have the chance to vote for independence. Americans of all persuasions should support the democratic process of this long-anticipated vote.
The product of a 2005 Comprehensive...
Simon Deng: The Walk for Freedom for South Sudan
January 8, 2011
On Sunday, January 9th, 2011, the people of Southern Sudan – Christians and animists, or practitioners of native faiths – will have the chance to vote to form an independent nation. The election was stipulated in a 2005 Comprehensive Peace...
Revolutionary Guard in Charge of Puppet A-jad; Alusi Prescient (Again) & Christians Emancipate Themselves
January 3, 2011
Wikileaks has reported that an officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard slapped Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad across the face recently when Ahmadinejad suggested Tehran ease up on the brutal repression of the press...
George Clooney Launches Satellite Project to Protect People as Sudan Heads into January 9th Referendum
December 31, 2010
Actor George Clooney has been making himself useful lately.
All too often, celebrities sound off about issues they know little about, and impressionable people are inclined to ascribe to them greater understanding than they usually...
Simon Deng: ‘No More Enslavement… Islamization, and No More Arabization’ For South
December 29, 2010
Note: On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation. In a prior interview with Big...