Politics

By Fidaa Abu Assi

As everything has to come to an end eventually, I am currently counting down the last few days of my ten-month trip in the United States. I was invited a couple of times to speak on what’s like for a Palestinian from Gaza to live in the U.S. for the first time.

Read more: From Gaza to the USA- Culture shock

By Archie Kennedy

CNN runs this story.

We read this loud and sensational story of a man, a killer without a conscience. Hard for most of us to fathom. CNN brings a few sensational aspects of the story such as “killing doesn’t seem to affect him” and the fact that he admitted to killing “more than” 30 men as an enforcer for Mexican drug gangs.

Read more: A Very Strange Reality

By Will Durst

Dear US Citizen

Please accept our most egregiously sincere apologies for the difficulties and inconveniences the secret monitoring of your phone records and email and GPS units and foreign travel and bank accounts and yes, even your snail mail has evidently caused.

Read more: Your ever- vigilant friends at the NSA

By MWC News

by Soraya Lennie

The morning after is quiet. Newsstands flutter with papers. One reads "hope has returned". And that sums up the mood, the feeling of Iranians after one of the country's most unexpected election results.

Read more: Iranians bask in Rouhani victory

By Ludwig Watzal

Mr. President, after I heard Edward Snowden’s exposure of your colossal spy program against all peoples of the world, Pink Floyd’s song “Another Brick in the Wall” popped up in my mind. Definitely, the American people don’t need your “thought control” or the “dark sarcasm” of the political class in Washington, D. C. Mr. President, just leaves your folks alone. As a former professor of constitutional law, you must have been for years in the wrong movie.

Read more: President Obama: Stay where you are