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NYT (3): International News
"The Taliban and Al Qaeda have established a haven in Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border. This is where the war on terror will be fought - and possibly lost" (Magazine cover story); Benazir Bhutto's husband wins the Pakistani presidency handily; and China finally speaks up on Iran.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, September 7, 2008
AlterNet: The VA Continues to Abandon Returning Vets
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, September 6, 2008The Problem Is Empire : Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, September 5, 2008The Problem Is Empire : Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, September 5, 2008NYT Op-Eds (3)
Paul Krugman hits one out of the park ("The G.O.P. is selling the politics of resentment; you’re supposed to vote Republican to stick it to an elite that thinks it’s better than you"); David Brooks manages a single ("The central drama of the convention was the struggle by reform Republicans to break through the pull of old habits and create something new"); and a Guest Op-Ed grounds out ("Basra is as an example of what an exit strategy might look like — and of the dangers of getting it wrong").Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, September 5, 2008
Joshua Kors: How the VA Abandons Our Vets (in The Nation)
go to storyThese guys get hit with shrapnel from roadside bombs, suffer physical and emotional damage, and when they try to get health benefits the government says, "what roadside bomb? .. I didn't see a roadside bomb. You must be mistaken, soldier" - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, September 4, 2008
NYT (3): International News
"Helicopter-borne American Special Operations forces attacked Qaeda militants in a Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan early Wednesday in the first publicly acknowledged case of United States forces conducting a ground raid on Pakistani soil, American officials said"; anti-Christian violence continues in India; and "even among the most moderate Palestinians, the credo of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is beginning to erode."Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, September 4, 2008
NYT: Report Says Gonzales Mishandled Classified Items
"Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales mishandled highly classified information relating to the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program and the administration’s prisoner interrogation program, an internal report concluded Tuesday."Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, September 3, 2008
NYT Book in Review: “Waiting For an Ordinary Day”
“The genie of terrorism, chaos and mayhem has been unleashed onto this country as a result of American mistakes, and it can’t be put back into a bottle.” Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi reports.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Fading superpower, rising rivals : Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, September 1, 2008Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent : Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, September 1, 2008NYT Editorials (3)
Two "warnings" to John McCain, and a call for "energy aid" re home heating oil.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, September 1, 2008
DE BORCHGRAVE: Disturbed nukes?
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, August 31, 2008NYT Books in Review: “The Same Man,” “Freedom’s Battle,” “The Way We’ll Be,” “Sex in Crisis,” “Blue Dixie”
A look at George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh; a history of humanitarian intervention; Zogby predicts the future; sex, religion and politics; a very different "Southern strategy"; and an essay on how censorship may have helped shape Solzhenitsyn's prose.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, August 31, 2008
DE BORCHGRAVE: Unwinnable insurgencies?
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, August 30, 2008Democracy Now: Iraq Veterans Against the War Lead Thousands in Protest March to Democratic Convention
go to storyI've been mostly following the convention on Democracy Now .. great coverage of speeches mixed with coverage of activism on the streets and issues important to progressives. This story about Iraq vets probably didn't get much play in the MSM - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, August 29, 2008
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Future of Death at the Pentagon
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, August 28, 2008Truthdig - Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, August 28, 2008Truthdig - Running for War President at Any Cost
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, August 28, 2008War With Russia Is On The Agenda: Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, August 27, 2008NYT Book in Review: “The Way of the World”
"Weapons of mass destruction and other imaginative acts."Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
We tilt at windmills as world war looms: Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, August 26, 2008NYT: War Veterans’ Concussions Are Often Overlooked
"As many as 300,000, or 20 percent, of combat veterans who regularly worked outside the wire, away from bases, have suffered at least one concussion, according to the latest Pentagon estimates."Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Consortiumnews.com Making Money on a New Cold War
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, August 24, 2008NYT Op-Eds (7)
Frank Rich joins NYT columnists Bob Herbert and Charles Blow in warning Obama that he must re-think his campaign ("As the presidential race finally gains the country’s full attention, the strategy Barack Obama used to vanquish Hillary Clinton must be rebooted to take out John McCain"); Thomas Friedman and Nicholas Kristof both offer quasi-apologias re China ("China and America can look at their Olympic successes as reaffirmations of their distinctly different political systems. But they could also learn from each other"; "For all the continuing repression, Chinese live far freer lives now than they did in the 1980s and ’90s. The openness even continues to expand on the Internet"); Maureen Dowd tells McCain to "check out of the Hanoi Hilton" ("John McCain’s campaign is cheapening his greatest strength by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated"); two guest op-eds on the Russian situation ("The real mastermind behind Russia’s invasion of Georgia is Stalin"; "The conflict in Georgia showed that Washington had better start treating Russia like the great power it still is"); and a third guest op-ed looks back at the Prague Spring ("Why do Czechs and Slovaks discount the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in 1968?").Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, August 24, 2008
