06-19-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Seventy miles northwest Tunisia is the 7.8 square mile island of Lampedusa, the southern-most portion of Italy. The normal population of the island is around…
06-17-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Sometimes, change comes one traffic ticket at a time. For women, Saudi Arabia is about three steps up from living under the Taliban. Women can…
06-12-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The protests in Jordan have been fairly low-key compared to the rest of the region, and the reason for that is the early and sincere…
06-09-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell ExxonMobil has announced that a new oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico may be one of the largest found in recent years.…
06-07-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Rape as a function of war has always been a tactic that made a sick sort of sense. Soldiers gang raping women in villages is…
06-07-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell One more time….Col. Moammar Qaddafi has again vowed to “stay in our land dead or alive.” NATO has begun bombing military and government facilities in…
06-07-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell A single rocket attack may have ended the months-long Yemeni protest movement to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He was airlifted to Saudi Arabia over…