By William J. Furney Of all the forms of capital punishment, stoning is surely the most brutal and howlingly grotesque, and picturing in your mind how the long, bloody and
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Category: International Affairs
A Great Turkey Disconnect
By William J. Furney You have to turn on laptops and tablets as you go through the twin layers of security at Istanbul’s jaded and soon-to-be redundant Ataturk Airport, to
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Britain’s Brexit Crisis: Let The People Decide (Again)
By William J. Furney Surely one of the overarching ironies in the long-running and sorry saga that is Brexit is that the prime minister who is attempting to deliver the
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Saudi Journalist ‘Murder’ Would Be Indelible Stain on ‘Modernising’ Kingdom
By William J. Furney The alleged murder of a Saudi journalist at a Turkish consulate is, if proven, one of the more shocking events of modern times, and would show
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Hunger-Striking American in Egyptian Jail Is ‘Distraught and Losing Hope’: Lawyer
By William J. Furney Mustafa Kassem is a taxi driver in New York who was visiting his wife and young son and daughter in Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of
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Egypt’s Mass Death Sentencing a Further Stain on a Once-Great Nation
By William J. Furney It’s a peculiarity that Donald Trump’s government has recently announced it’s cutting almost all United States aid funding to Pakistan and a United Nations relief agency
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