WHY HOLY WAR…

After the recent tragedies in France – 130 people killed and 300 severely injured – after the bombing of a Russian Airbus killing another 224, after another 45 people killed in Beirut, and after all the other Islamic attacks in Paris, Brussels, London, Madrid, Tunisia...

Female Mutilation: Is it time to boycott Indonesia?

A little girl is pinned to the ground while adults saw off her genitals with a chunk of broken glass. Another newborn girl has her clitoris sliced off at a “Women’s Health Clinic”. The night before her arranged wedding, a fourteen-year-old girl is mutilated with a...

NEAR-DEATH ON THE THIRD RAIL: Home from the War

by Mike Bond Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has never seen war. It can kill you even when you’re far away. When you don’t want to die. I had come back from one of those ghastly, unending Middle East wars, this one in Lebanon. Beirut had been my...