Blue-Scarf Housing "STANDS" Spread to 13 Vancouver Street Corners as Olympics...

Every Saturday people wearing blue scarves and holding blue banners meet for an hour between 1 and 2 p.m. on street corners in Vancouver. They are demanding more social housing, less conversion of rental housing...

In the Name of Allah - Part 2

Since 9/11 we've been having a hard time parting Islam from "Islamist acts of terror". In "In the name of Allah? No. Please rephrase" we addressed this issue and suggested the beginning of a might-be solution. We...

In The Name of Allah ? No. Please rephrase.

Updated July 11th. After the siege by pro-Taleban militants of Islamabad's Red Mosque ended today in death and failure, Ayman Al Zawahri, Al Qaeda's ideologist and spokesman called upon all Muslims to engage in a...

Gunmen try to take U.S. Embassy in Syria - Yahoo! News

DAMASCUS, Syria – "Islamic militants attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives, the government said. Four people...

DEALING WITH DAMASCUS: ISOLATE ASSAD - New York Post: Postopinion

"August 21, 2006 -- NOTICE anything different about the recent round of diplomatic efforts to resolve Lebanon's latest crisis? Strikingly, Syria was nowhere to be found. Thankfully, for the first time in years,...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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