Safe, safer and safest

There were few temperate hearts to be found among the media who dared to postpone any further judgment until a more substantive portion of the report leaked a few days ago received some well deserved scrutiny. In short, it was a veritable Bush bashing slugfest.

The report in question titled Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States, contained national intelligence estimates from 16 intelligence agencies that were made available to the president and senior members of the congressional intelligence committees, one of which (or maybe more) is obviously a mole.

When it all comes to pass

Stories are the stuff of daily life. They give structure and meaning to our existence within the continuous flow of history. They awaken us to the significance of our individual and collective roles within the context of a common narrative.

The Unbearable Burden of Doing

Like a vapor which appears for a moment and then vanishes away, the news came and left as if something of no importance had taken place.

Neuroscientist Adrian Owens and a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge decided to try resonance imaging techniques to measure the neural activity in specific brain regions of a severely brain-damaged 23-year-old woman.

Iraq and Amin al-Husseini: Deja vu all over again

Born in 1895 to an aristocratic family in Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini -the British appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem- is arguably one of the most notorious Arab leaders whose memory is greatly revered in Palestine today; and fewer alliances with such enormously tragic consequences are offered by the seemingly fortuitous trajectory of history than that which the Mufti forged with Adolph Hitler.

Based on what he felt was a natural alliance towards a common purpose - the annihilation of the Jews - Amin al-Husseini had already begun cultivating an ideological kinship with the Führer long before the latter rose to power in 1933.  That year he sent a telegram to the German Consul-General in Berlin offering his services in the pursuit of spreading their common ideology by implementing the Jewish final solution in the Middle East.

Global Warming: An issue for all seasons

For those of you who have not yet been walloped by a tree hugger with the full transcript of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, Global Warming is heating the earth’s surface.

As you may have noticed, this phenomenon - which allegedly could someday have cataclysmic consequences absent any mitigating actions in our part - has tempted many a scientist to don the coveted mantle of prophet from time to time. But who can blame them. If you were given the opportunity to be among the few enlightened souls who has been entrusted with the solemn duty to warn humanity of an impending catastrophe of biblical proportions, what would you do?