WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — White Plains CitizeNetReporter Publisher John Bailey engages in deciphering the outcome of the White Plains Mayoral and Common Council outcome, the FASNY go ahead majority vote despite concerns from varying fronts, and whether the political process demands more robust media, and if so, is media deficient in its capacity to report the news with gravitas? This …
Kurdish Secession and Mysteries of Identity
By AMIR TAHERI
This article first appeared in Asharq Al Awsat and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author Amir Taheri. Published by Gatestone Institute – October 8, 2017 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11119/kurdish-secession-identity An old Arab adage asserts that there is always something good in whatever happens. The secession referendum held in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq is no exception. It …
By AMIR TAHERI
White Plains CitizeNetReporter Publisher John Bailey, National Political Analyst Michael Edelman, Esq., and Yonkers Tribune Editor-at-Large Hezi Aris on Westchester On the Level – Monday, May 29, 2017th @10am DST
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — White Plains CitizeNetReporter Publisher and Monday Co-host John Bailey shares his perspective with Yonkers Tribune Editor-at-Large Hezi Aris this Monday, May 29, 2017th, and every Monday throughout the year. Memorial Day is a propitious time to reflect upon the contributions of those now gone in body yet memorialized and kept alive in our collective memory. This …
Syria Has Effectively Ceased to Exist
By JONATHAN SPYER
On my last night in Damascus, some younger members of the Ministry of Information-sponsored delegation in which I was taking part decided to have a drink. It was late April, and the bars and restaurants were doing good business in the cool and breezy evenings. An inebriated Russian journalist, accompanied by a uniformed Russian soldier entered the bar opposite our …
By JONATHAN SPYER
Paul Anthony on Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris – February 13, 2012
Westchester On the Level is heard from Mondays to Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon by way of the Internet: http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/WestchesterOntheLevel. Join the conversation by calling toll-free to 1-877-674-2436. Please stay on topic. Richard Narog and Hezi Aris are your co-hosts. In the week beginning February 13th and ending on February 17th, we have many exciting people that are sure …
Trend Alert: Arab Spring + European Summer = World Winter of Discontent By GERALD CELENTE
KINGSTON, NY, May 25, 2011 — The biggest news this past week was not the rape accusation scandal embroiling International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It was not President Barack Obama’s much ballyhooed Middle East speech, nor was it the historic floods devastating the Mississippi flood plain. But these were the stories that preoccupied the US press. Whereas all were …
Ed Koch Commentary: President Obama’s Hostility to Israel Continues By Ed Koch
The issues in all of the discussions on peace between the Israelis and Palestinians have revolved around three major controversial matters: Jerusalem, with the Palestinians demanding their capital be in that city; and demanding a return of all Palestinian refugees and their descendants now numbering 4.5 million to the state of Israel; and the lines of the new state.
Obama’s Failed Middle East Speech By DANIEL PIPES
Cross-posted from National Review Online http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/05/obama-failed-middle-east-speech In a much-touted speech today bearing the modest title "Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa," Barack Obama responded to the Arab revolt of the past five months with elements, common sense and even eloquence ("through the moral force of nonviolence, the people of the region have achieved more change …
Ed Koch Commentary: The War Against the Jews Goes On By Ed Koch
The latest Palestinian violence against Israelis, and the continuing abandonment of Israel by most of the international community, inevitably bring to mind the abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust. Just this past week, a document emerged which raises disturbing new questions about President Franklin Roosevelt’s response to the Nazi mass murder of Europe’s Jews.
Trend Alert: Anti-Gov’t Protests to Spread – What’s Next? By Gerald Celente
Kingston, NY — February 24, 2011 — It is a matter of record! The spate of seething, youth-inspired Middle East uprisings that are toppling governments, reshaping the geopolitical landscape and roiling world markets blindsided the world’s intelligence community were all predicted by the Trends Journal, specifically, its publisher and author Gerald Celente. Not the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff or …