STATESIDE STORIES: DEMS DEBATE WHILE TRUMP DEEMS SYRIA’S FATE »
Twelve Democratic hopefuls faced off in Ohio in mid-October in the largest US presidential primary debate in history. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has withdrawn US military personnel from the war zones of Syria. The New York Times quotes Aleksandr Shumilin, a Middle East specialist at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, as saying, “This is an unexpected gift for Putin.”
TERRORIST SAVAGERY BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN PEOPLE »
"If terrorists would only look, they’d see their savagery only brings out the best in people. They’re going to reap no converts nor cow them into submission to their cause"
VIDEOTAPED BURNING OF JORDANIAN PILOT BOOMERANGS ON ISIS »
Jordan has vowed earth-shaking vengeance
STATESIDE STORIES: It Isn’t Too Late for Resolutions »
” I resolve to work to live and not live to work”
STATESIDE STORIES: Bring On the New Year! »
Take a new broom and sweep the old year out the door. Bang pots at the stroke of midnight to herald in the new!
STATESIDE STORIES: “Does the World Hate America? »
“Hating America and all it stands for seems to be the fashion these days”
STATESIDE STORIES’ NEWSBITS: RACE RIOTS IN THE U.S. and ISIS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA »
US drama in global context
STATESIDE STORIES: How Terrorism has Affected the U.S. »
BLOG: Terrorism in the U.S.; NEWSBITS: Iranian sectarian differences and the U.S. forces; mystery man in Picasso’s “Blue Room”; Spain and the Security Council; Putin and Ukraine
