By Debbie Menon Helen Thomas always asks the right questions!  That is why she is known as a “top US journalist.” A long career: “You’re only as good as your last story,” says journalist Helen Thomas, who has been covering stories in and around Washington D.C. since 1942. Helen Thomas, 89, began her long career [...]

I usually love elders, I really do. They are indeed usually forbearers of  “the Truth.” By Debbie Menon With due respect to “The Global Elders” I am rather dismayed to put it lightly, by their recent trip to the “Occupied Territories,” primarily for their cowardly and limp-willed lack of forcefulness with Israel. All fine rhetoric, [...]

“Truth and America’s honor were ignominiously sacrificed to provide cover for Israel’s transparent lies and despicable act of perfidy.” –Phillip F. Tourney, President USS LIBERTY Veterans Association, June 8, 2007, Marriott Courtyard, VA. By Debbie Menon / My Catbird Seat We have long wondered, and conjectured, the “why” of the USS Liberty incident, as it [...]

Supporting Goldstone without repudiating Israel, Zionism and Jewish collusion is cowardly By Debbie Menon This is a beautifully written and sympathetic letter addressed to Justice Richard Goldstone, from 25 souls out of a few million, and I am sure Dr Goldstone appreciates their sympathy. Dear Judge Goldstone, As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we [...]

I can assure you, the world after Bush will not look like the world before Bush! Some important things have been bent, many of them broken. It makes the damage done to Robert Frost’s birches look like a few bent twigs. by Debbie Menon Mark Engler in his article “The World After Bush” asserts,“there is [...]

If the world markets have “collapsed” and everyone has “lost” as much money as we are hearing they have, just who in hell is everyone going to borrow from?  Each other?  This sounds to me like another Big Banker Scam. By Debbie Menon The Headlines today read, “Developing countries feeling fallout from meltdown?” Of course [...]

By Debbie Menon THE Afghan people have a great strength; a dignity in their lives, and a pride in their culture. Long years of war and struggle have put the Afghan people in a position of hopelessness. They are now weary of war. They are determined to make the best of the situations they live [...]

Walter Russell Mead, is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy.  In the Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008 issue, in his essay, ‘The New Israel and the Old,’ Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State, [http://www.foreignaffairs.com/node/64446/talk]  Mr. Mead builds his entire lovely canvass on a frame and a canvass well treated with truth before [...]