THE ALJUNIEDS OF ARAB STREET
When I was growing up in Singapore, my mother - who was a woman of some style - would always swear that the best place in all the city to buy batik cloth was Aljunieds of Arab Street. So while back in the southeast asian mega-city that is Singapore today, I made a bee-line for Arab Street, and was d ...
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This just published essay, written by Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, reflects human civilization as I see it; mindless and dysfunctional. Like lemmings, we humans are hurtling rapidly toward a cliff. As Tobias and Morrison point out, every single day that passes, the headlines of most any ma ...
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
The Iraqi parliament has approved a new cabinet to be led by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the New York Times reports. However, lawmakers left what are perhaps the two most important positions for countering the country’s growing security threats, Defense and Interior Ministries, unfilled. Mr. Aba ...
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LO QUE OFRECE EL ESTADO ISLÁMICO Fernando Reinares En abril de 2013 fue cuando se produjo la ruptura entre Al Qaeda y una de sus dos ramas territoriales en la región de Oriente Próximo, la organización yihadista cuyos antecedentes se remontan a 2004 y que el pasado mes de junio adoptó el nombre de E ...
