Strength of the Jewish Diaspora The population of the Jewish diaspora around the world is approximately 13 million, and is just short of 0.3% of the world population. Despite this small number,...

  Why a Jewish grocery store was targeted Since its foundation after WWII, Israel continues to struggle with its Muslim neighbors, as well as the Palestinians who have lost their land. This confl...

In 2014, China nominated the “Nanjing Massacre” and the “Comfort Women” to be registered at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memor...

  In the opening days of 2015, an unspeakable act of terror took place. Two men, purportedly part of Al Qaeda, broke into the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a French weekly magazine that sa...

American hegemony over the past 70 years has been both lauded for its stabilizing influence in patrolling the global commons and deterring large scale wars, and also criticized for its overbearing inf...

The conflict in the Middle East is increasingly chaotic, with multiple factions claiming legitimacy in a wide variety of inter-related and overlapping issues. Recently, the conflict has seen spillover...

Mr. Takegawa, (left) of Happy Science International PR Division, hands Ms. Iskra Panevska (right), Senior Programme Specialist for UNESCO’s Memory of the World, documents to protest the registra...

South Korea’s President Park (left) shook hands with China’s President Xi at the APEC meeting held in Beijing in November, 2014. Photo: Xinhua News Agency/Aflo   The Liberal Democrati...

The comfort woman statue set up in Glendale City, California in July, 2013(photo: Yonhap/Aflo)   Ethnic Korean groups have already set up ‘comfort women monuments’ and ‘comfort ...

Profile Born 1964. An American writer, journalist, and photographer. Served in the US Special Forces (Green Beret) during the 1980’s. Michael has been writing from or about Iraq and Afghanistan ...