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Domestic Violence: A Universal Disease

By YOUSEF DRUMMOND CLEARLY, the most salient barometer of a society’s health concerns how it treats its women and children.  The foregoing column concerns how men treat their women in modern society. That said, I must admit that I harbor an ideological bias when analyzing individual motivations as it relates to modern society, thanks to [...]

Viva Palestina: Morocco and Algeria Opens Their Border for the Convoy

By YVONNE RIDLEY WAR-mongering politicians across the world who have used their country's superpower status and might to bully others into submitting to their demands will be watching the Viva Palestina convoy in disbelief tomorrow. The mile-long convoy of 100 plus vehicles and 315 drivers and peace activists will drive through the border in what [...]

Viva Palestina: Making Its Way Through Morocco

By YVONNE RIDLEY AS a journalist I love being first with the news so when I was handed a red hot exclusive story a few hours ago I could barely contain myself. I already had a captive audience having just finished a live broadcast for Press TV in front of scores of members of the [...]

Viva Palestina: Remembering Fishermen Killed by Israel

By YVONNE RIDLEY AS the sun rose over the Tarifa ferry terminal in Southern Spain this morning the view was quite spectacular as row after row of vehicles from the Viva Palestina convoy lined up for the next leg of our mercy mission to Gaza. But what really caught my eye this time was a [...]

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Viva Palestina: France to Madrid via San Sebastian in Spain

By YVONNE RIDLEY IF you ever thought travelling in a convoy was easy, think again. This latest drive from Bordeaux in France to Madrid via San Sebastian in Spain was back-breaking and some of the vehicles just simply gave up ... unlike their drivers. The indomitable spirit, true grit and determination of those on board [...]

Wilders on the Loose, Again

By YOUSEF DRUMMOND GEERT Wilders, far-right Dutch Member of Parliament and leader of the extremist Freedom Party (PVV), is back in the spotlight. Mr. Wilder, a 45-year-old MP who looks more like a rock-star than a politician due to his peroxide-blond slicked hair, lay claim to the international scrutiny in March of 2008 by promoting [...]

Viva Palestina: George Galloway Convoy's Road Journey from London to Gaza

By YVONNE RIDLEY TOMORROW is Valentine's Day, a celebration rooted in paganism until Christian leaders pegged it to the legend of a third century saint after failing miserably to stop the annual festival. And so, in a few hours time, millions of people of faith and no faith across the world will be exchanging cards [...]

War on Terror: A Useless Idea

By YOUSEF DRUMMOND ANY serious student of science these days propose ideas or conceptual assumptions about natural phenomena, only to discard them when systematic empirical observation can no longer support it.  The history of science is replete with exceptional persons who, in light of overwhelming scientific evidence, discarded conceptual assumptions about the workings of the [...]