PTSD is as valid a reason to get a Purple Heart as is a physical wound–The Pentagon recently decided not to award the Purple Heart to those suffering from PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. Their reason for not awarding this prized medal for those who are wounded or killed by enemy action was that it is…

Is Israel being Short-Sighted?–In Israel, I read, rare is the person not supporting the Gaza offensive. The rest of the world may object, but Israelis do not. They feel justified in whatever is done in their name. 2003 wasn’t so long ago. Many remember the night it was announced President Bush had gone to war…

–The first step to the eventual elimination of genocide is to recognize it, as is just beginning in Turkey–The genocide of Armenians, which began in 1915, where more than a million people lost their lives through the atrocities committed by the Ottoman Empire, has long been a subject no one in Turkey admits or talks…