“Hot Lips and Rhetoric” ~ On the Bondi Beach Shootings

“Hot Lips and Rhetoric” ~ On the Bondi Beach Shootings

Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Bondi Beach shootings as an antisemitic terrorist attack, and he blamed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Albanese, he said, had allowed antisemitism to spread, contributing to the conditions that led to the massacre.​ What was the...
A Wave of Repression in El Salvador

A Wave of Repression in El Salvador

85,000 citizens of El Salvador have been imprisoned, most of them without fair trials. In a May 20 broadcast of The World (from PRX), Marco Werman interviews Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, the Salvadoran human rights group.  Werman and Bullock talk...
A New Pope, and a Papal Pretender

A New Pope, and a Papal Pretender

Like Donald J. Trump, the new Pope is a U.S. citizen. And possibly both may have once dreamed of becoming the Pope. But with that, the similarities come to an end. Yesterday, the Papal conclave chose Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American who has spent...
Hope and Healing vs. Hate and Heartlessness

Hope and Healing vs. Hate and Heartlessness

Two larger than life figures on the world stage had Easter messages, but only one –– from Pope Francis –– captured the true spirit of Easter.  The Pope just passed away at age 88, but not before issuing his annual “Urbi et Orbi” prayer for the people of Rome and...
Gaslighting the Gulag: Assad’s “Humanitarian” Asylum

Gaslighting the Gulag: Assad’s “Humanitarian” Asylum

Even as the world witnessed newly liberated Syrians desperately searching Syria’s notorious Saydnaya Prison where Basshir Al Assad had routinely jailed and tortured many (or even any) who vocally opposed his tyrannical rule, Vladimir Putin granted Assad asylum in...