*SAIGON FLASHBACK* *SPEAKING WITH FORKED TONGUE* *ARCHBISHOP TUTU ON ISRAEL* Today marks an anniversary that the Pentagon would prefer to ignore. It is not a day that Colin Powell wants to remember either, because his formative military years were connected to it. It is not a date commemorated on the front page of the New [...]
*LA ANNIVERSARY* *ISRAEL SHUFFLE* *DANNY DOES DALLAS* Today we mark the tenth anniversary of the LA Riots or rebellion, depending on your point of view. The President is due in LA to unveil some faith-based initiative to mark the occasion, which was triggered by the refusal to convict white policemen caught on videotape in the [...]
*SOUTH AFRICAN ANNIVERSARY* *DOWN WITH ANTISEMITISM* *TERROR WAR PROBLEMS* Eight years ago this Saturday, I felt privileged to be standing just below the Union buildings in Pretoria South Africa to witness and film a century-defining event: the end of white rule in Africa. Tens of thousands of onlookers, many waiting for hours and hours as [...]
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