71st Peabody Awards- Humbled 2 b with the amazing women of the Arab Spring! @arwaCNN @lourdesgnavarro @sherineT http://t.co/kcF1EVrI Continue reading →

BEIJING — Al Jazeera, the satellite broadcasting network, has been forced by the Chinese authorities to close its China news operations of its English-language channel on Monday, the first such action in almost 14 years and the strongest sign yet of fraying relations between the ruling Communist Party and the overseas journalists who cover it. The network’s correspondent Melissa Chan was scheduled to leave Beijing by jet Monday night after the government refused normally routine requests to renew her journalist’s visa and press credentials or to allow another correspondent to replace her. She declined to be quoted about her departure, and the government’s motive was not explicitly stated. But among other broadcasts, officials were said by some to have been angered by an English-language documentary ... Continue reading →

(CBS/AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban struck back less than two hours after President Barack Obama left Afghanistan on Wednesday, targeting a foreigners' housing compound with a suicide car bomb and militants disguised as women in an assault that killed at least seven people. It was the second major assault in Kabul in less than three weeks and highlighted the Taliban's continued ability to strike in the heavily guarded capital even when security had been tightened for Mr. Obama's visit and Wednesday's anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan. Mr. Obama arrived at Bagram Air Field late Tuesday, then traveled to Kabul by helicopter for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai in which they signed an agreement governing ... Continue reading →

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Beirut, LebanonAS I walk around the streets of Beirut, that verse from "The Sounds of Silence" keeps rattling around in my head: "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls ..." There is a highly revealing graffiti war going on here pitting opponents of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, and his Lebanese ally, the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on one side and their Lebanese and Syrian supporters on the other. Assad and Nasrallah have long called themselves "the resistance" to Israel, using that to build their legitimacy and to justify arming themselves against their own people. What is stunning to me is how much their masks have now been ripped off by their own people. It is written on the ... Continue reading →

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