BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

By Larry Johnson Last night’s arrest of a U.S. citizen who thought he was spying for Israel is going to unleash a fascinating dynamic. The Washington Post reported this morning : Stewart D. Nozette, 52, was arrested on a charge of attempted espionage and is being held pending an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, authorities said. Authorities said the charges stemmed an undercover sting operation in which an FBI agent posed as an Israeli spy. Nozette allegedly passed the agent sensitive information through a “dead drop” at a D.C. post office in recent weeks, authorities said. Nozette worked for the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 through 1999, prosecutors said. He was credited with helping develop a radar in 1994 that suggested ice on the south pole of the moon. He was president of the Alliance for Competitive Technology, a nonprofit group he founded in 1990. He has held security clearances as high as top secret and...

BHUTTO: A CULTURAL HONOR KILLING I just read the fabulous Phyllis Chesler's take on the Bhutto Assassination and found it so compelling I am sharing it here with a link back to her site. You should all take a look. And ladies, any of you who haven't read her book WOMEN & MADNESS should go to your local bookstore, log on to Amazon or go to your library and get a copy to read. A true masterpiece from someone who has been there and back and maintained her integrity and strong viewpoints. Ms. Chesler is infinitely admirable in my estimation. So give her wonderful take on the Bhutto assassination a read: Bhutto's Assassination Is a Political and Cultural Honor Killing by Phyllis Chesler In a sense, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a political and cultural version of an honor killing. Bhutto was the first woman Prime Minister of a Muslim nation and she symbolized an unacceptably Western form of female ambition and achievement. She had attended Harvard/Radcliffe and O...