Food safety advocates say this latest outbreak shows how budget cuts have hampered the ability of federal and state health agencies to effectively protect public health.
International attention to Turkey’s recent election reflects Ankara’s rising role not only in the Arab Spring but as a newly powerful democracy with broad regional influence.
As our food has become more processed and industrialized, so has Thanksgiving dinner. Sadly, it's the turkey itself that has changed the most since the time of the Pilgrims.
Adam Horowitz, Philip Weiss, O/R Books. August 11, 2010.
This excerpt from the new book, "Midnight on the Mavi Marmara," explains how the world is now forced to reconsider what Zionism has actually built in the Middle East.
A new Middle East is being born - and there seems to be only one place for Israel: isolation. With that comes an inevitable, somewhat crazed approach to diplomacy.
Men, women and children gathered in the Saturday heat and stayed well into a rainy evening in solidarity with besieged Gaza and the Turkish victims of the IDF.
International condemnation has deepened the Israeli public's siege mentality, leading many demonstrators to claim that anti-Semitism best explained the world's motives.
Questions remain unanswered on both sides. But without a full and transparent airing of all the evidence, the truth of that dreadful night on the Marmara may never come to light.
Arab League chief: "We condemn this crime, taken against a humanitarian mission and people. They were trying to help people. They were not on a military mission.
To consider honor killings in Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence against women in the Western world.
