Numerology on Iraq Numbers
Remember the Lancet reported study by Johns Hopkins last fall? 655,000 Iraqis dead it said. Not 12,000 as the Iraqi …
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Webb: Gunner
Following the incident of his aide’s detention for trying to get a loaded pistol into the Senate, James Webb showed …
Pakistan: Trouble in the Streets
The street scenes in Pakistan, of lawyers in three-piece suits braving tear gas and calling for the end of Pervez …
The Normalization of Torture
Slavoj Zizek, post modernist philosopher and ADHD commentator on everything from Lenin to David Lynch, would be an unusual contributor …
Other Wars
Following the news of soldiers at Walter Reed Army hospital, and today more scandal at more hospitals, brought to mind …
Books on TV
C-Span2 turns itself on weekends into 48 hours of book talk — a whole lotta books, and too many you’ll …
The Edwards Say GO
Wednesday afternoon John and Elizabeth Edwards let it be known they would have a press conference on Thursday, noon on …
On Line Media Grows
The story behind the furor over the firings of the 8 US Attorneys is the story itself. In the days …
Pakistan: Lawyers in the Streets
CNN International, broadcasting in the SF Bay Area in the mid-morning hours, does a good job with important news not …
Clean Tech
Quite a few articles on clean tech /green movements today. NY Times front page on increasing pace of clean tech …
Reading Tolstoy
Op Ed contributor Rory Stewart, founder of Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Afghanistan, recommends a little known novel by Leo Tolstoy: …
It Can Happen Here
Joe Conason has a new book, and has been around the circuits talking about it. And talked about, over at …