Operation Ajax

President Bush has warned Iran again. Evil Iran! Iran that doesn’t listen. Iran that talks back.
Why do WE hate them? Do we know why? Think for a moment; isn’t it because we are… told where the evil is? Because we were given no choice but to accept notion of Iran’s leading role in the “axis of evil”, this profound [...]

The forgotten Holocaust – Part II

Few days ago the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) national director Abraham Foxman has issued a dramatic reversal of his position of the Armenian genocide in a statement describing the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians as “tantamount to genocide.” Dramatic change it is, when consider the position of prominent Jewish activists, the state [...]

The forgotten Holocaust – Part I

I was born and raised less than an hour drive from Auschwitz; I have visited this “anus mundi” more than dozen of times. I can’t wait for my children to reach the age when they are allowed to entered this place of human shame. It must never be forgotten, never placed in the back of [...]

Adios Alberto!

Another one bites the dust…Alberto Gonzales, soon to be our ex- Attorney General, has resigned his post. He will be remembered primarily for incompetence, for the illegal firing of federal prosecutors who did not serve the political interests of George W. Bush, illegal snooping on our citizens and finally for the rumbling manner in which he [...]

The Art of Democracy

Those pesky Iraqis don’t deserve our sacrifice, it seems, because their elected leaders are not doing what we want them to do.
First, the hawks in our administration loved Ahmed Chalabi, the man who fabricated for Washington the”‘weapons of mass destruction” (with a hefty bank fraud charge in Jordan). Then, they loved Ayad Allawi, a Vietnam-style spook who [...]

Quo Vadis?…

The last few days brought us at least two critical news in , so called, ” war on terror”.
First, a duel of words with a sublimal aftertaste. Bush likes Maliki then.. maybe not; Maliki needs W but could find friends elsewhere turning his lower back at our prophet.
That’s fine…But I am hearing, mostly on a [...]

Play doh

My kids, like many others, love to litter the house with play-doh. They do it innocently… The play-doh has amazing properties, is pliable, gives in to the molder’s will and when needed it pretends to be a permanent as a marble. But leave it unattended for a while and it will crumble into the pile of [...]

In care of Medicare

Beginning in October 2008 the Medicare will stop paying hospitals for “preventable” hospital-acquired infections and injuries. My first thought was: nonsense! After moments of contemplation I had a second thought: complete nonsense!
If the idea was to minimize most of the medical problems acquired in the hospital, this would be an honorable cause. But to cut [...]

Icon

Joe O’Donnell, the hero of American and world journalistic photography has passed. I was privileged to attend his memorial service in Nashville invited by his wife Kimiko.
It took me few days to contemplate his life and art, to pull myself together and write few words.
We all know his famous images, most of us know the [...]