By YOUSEF DRUMMOND BARACK Hussein Obama’s dance with “History” began on Saturday, January 18th, 2009. The President-elect and the first-lady “in waiting”, Michelle Obama, along with their two young girls, boarded a vintage train, built in the 1930’s dubbed the “Georgia 300”, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that will meander to Wilmington, Delaware, to Maryland, and then [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY TRY as he might, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert can not snatch any sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat that are closing down on the failed Zionist project. This, quite simply, is the beginning of the end for Israel. The only thing Israel has proved it can do militarily better [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND ONE Saturday afternoon my niece and I watched an episode of “The Hills”, on Music Television, a well-packaged documentary that chronicled the romantic lives of a parade of young men and women, against a backdrop of Hollywood affluence – its fancy cars, its mansions and its exclusive brand of entertainment. There are [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY THE media coverage of the war in Gaza by Western television companies is largely unfair and biased because of a refusal to show viewers the real images of the victims. One of the reasons for this is Israel’s decision not to allow the Western media in to Gaza. In addition to this outrageous [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND WE barely hear the word “aristocrat” on the television and print media these days; but does it exist among the American political establishment today? Yes, believe it or not. Classical history tells us that the word “aristocrat” means “rule by the best”. In keeping with the notion that America’s society is a [...]
