“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…
Ten days ago I praised Richard Engel’s beautiful and amazing story on NBC Nightly News about a Baghdad orphanage for girls whose parents had died because of the war we started. I was hardly alone. Last night Brian Williams said…
Today CBS News reports that Kimberly Dozier is headed home, talking “animatedly.” CBS has regularly covered the correspondent’s injury in Iraq, and the death of her two crew-members. I’m a little surprised by the silence surrounding anchor Bob Woodruff’s injuries…
BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the neocon moment seems at last to be…
Alexander Cockburn, in the latest Nation, tells the story of the first time he wrote about Israeli violence against the Palestinians—yes, in retaliation for (lesser) Palestinian violence—and it was removed from the Village Voice, in 1973, in an “unwonted act…
The leftwing blogosphere welcomes Walter A. Davis, the brilliant new editor of MWCNews.net—Media With Conscience. Davis is a leftwing philosopher and author and former Catholic. Right now I’m reading his book about 9/11: Death’s Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since…
Yesterday when I got back from a hike there were several turkeys in my yard in the high grass. I let my dogs out of my car anyway—they can’t catch turkeys. I hadn’t figured that the poults have lately arrived,…
Due to the overly hasty production methods here, I inadvertently referred to the President’s “gay marriage initiative” of yesterday. Now I’m told that the President actually came out against gay marriage. Gosh. I apologize to all my heterosexual readers. I…