The AfPak Channel: "Moderate" Taliban: A wolf in sheep's clothing? Foreign Policy (blog) No sooner had the UN released its report than two Taliban websites posted rebuttals, in English and Pashto. The websites accuse "international organizations" of "slandering the Islamic Emirate" and describes the killing of innocent civilians as an ...
Treat foreign workers with respect New Straits Times It is a common sight these days to see retail assistants losing patience with immigrant workers who patronise shopping complexes and hypermarkets as they have difficulty understanding our national language. It is annoying to see a bus driver shouting ...
The old days are gone, pet: it's time we talked the talk This is Staffordshire The last government made learning foreign languages optional in England. But there is evidence of an overall decline in the number of students taking GCSEs in languages, with statistics showing a fall from 61 per cent in 2005 to 44 per cent in 2010.
Crisis in Syria Looks Very Different on Satellite Channels Owned by Russia and ... New York Times (blog) By ROBERT MACKEY Part of a Syrian state television report on Friday's bombings of government sites in the city of Aleppo. As my colleague Neil MacFarquhar reports, the flood of video documenting atrocities in Syria has intensified in the past 24 hours, ...
Senate cybersecurity bill: Not out today - Will Republicans offer ... Politico Another interesting factoid: Half of Silicon Valley's population speaks a language other than English at home, compared with 44 percent in California and 21 percent nationwide. In the Valley, Spanish is the top foreign language spoken at home followed ...
CPAC and White Nationalism American Muslim The first was a panel yesterday on the failure of multiculturalism discussed below, and the second will be held later today “Islamic Law in America: How Obama's Department of Justice is Selling us Out.” The Islamic law panel has been sponsored by the ...
