Guatemala is at a historic juncture. President Otto Pérez Molina submitted his resignation on September 2 after months of protests that culminated in a nationwide strike on August 27. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in the streets throughout the country. Pérez Molina is now behind bars. He faces charges of fraud, accepting bribes, and illegal association. The protests began in April, when CICIG—a United Nations commission formed to help Guatemala prosecute high-impact crimes—found that the vice president and others in Pérez Molina’s administration had been eliminating customs tariffs in exchange for bribes. This maneuver cheated the Guatemalan public out…

Allah (جل جلاله) orders: و بالوالدين إحسانا و بذي القربي و المساكين و الجار الجنب و الصاحب إبن الجنب و إبن السبيل و ما ملكت إيمانكم And do good to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbors who are near, neighbors who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (you meet), and what your right hands possess. [4:36] In this verse of the Quran, two types of neighbors are mentioned: the next-door neighbors and the ones who live farther. A short-term neighborhood exists while one is traveling in a plane, bus, train, etc. Students in a class or…

Anger is in the air. Angela Merkel has come to Heidenau and the locals are lined up to see her. But it is anything but a friendly welcome: It is a crowd full of hate. Some call out: "Traitor to Your People!" Others yell "We Are the Pack," a reference to Deputy Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel's strong condemnation of right-wing, anti-refugee demonstrators. It is the pride of idiots. After the chancellor disappears into the former building supplies store, where 400 refugees have found shelter, the residents of the small Saxony town begin talking about the outsiders who have become their temporary…

1. D’après l’ONU, les colons israéliens ont mené une moyenne de 4 attaques par semaine contre les Palestiniens, toutes les semaines depuis début 2015. http://bit.ly/1VRYZHe 2. Douma, qui se trouve à environ 20 km au sud de Naplouse, est presque entièrement sous contrôle israélien : 95 pour cent du village sont classés en zone C, et 5 pour cent en zone B. Selon les Accords d’Oslo, Israël détient un contrôle total sur…

Author : Thomas E. Ricks The Penguin Press, New York, 2006.             Part I       Containment A bad Ending Spring 1991 Exctract: President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Irak in 2003 ultimately may come to be seen as one of the most profligate actions in the history of American foreign policy. The consequences of his choice won’t be clear for decades, but it already is abundantly apparent in mid-2006 that the U.S government went to war in Irak with scant solid international support and on the basis of incorrect information-about weapons of mass destruction and a supposed nexus…