Salamander
In the cable-news battle over the al-Zarqawi death, CNN has been tops today, by demonstrating real journalistic values—i.e., a little honest detachment and analysis. To its great credit, the network aired an interview with Nir Rosen, author of In the…
A friend who attended the Times Magazine panel on Iraq coverage last Sunday (which was reported in the Observer) tells me she was stunned to hear Times Baghdad correspondent Dexter Filkins describe how few reporters from countries beside the U.K….
On CNN just now, Fawaz Gerges, author of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy, said that 90-95 percent of the insurgents in Iraq do not answer to Al Qaeda, but are homegrown.
Mike Berg is running for Congress in Delaware as the antiwar, Green candidate against the incumbent Republican. Berg calls for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq on the grounds that the U.S. is increasing suffering in the Middle East,…
In today’s Financial Times, Henry Siegman states that Israel is trying to annex large portions of the West Bank and thereby frustrate plans for a true Palestinian state. “The issue is not whether Hamas recognises Israel,” Siegman says. It is…
“By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, training ground, and operational base for jihadist terrorists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at. The tenuous prewar connection between the…
My friend Mim has submitted the following list of great spam pseudonyms: Peter Phoebe Wilma Gallegos Fran Patel Faustino Burkhart Marietta Molina Vergie Henry … and, last but not least, Stylianos Cuffie OK, now I can delete them all. This…