Dan Kennedy has an interesting post today taking the Globe’s ombudsman to task for refusing to apply to word “terrorist” to organizations like Hamas.
[S]he quotes Globe editor Martin Baron as saying, “The overall approach here is to describe events and present facts rather than to attack labels to individuals or groups. We particularly seek […]
I have admired and agreed with just about every analysis and commentary piece Josh Marshall has written, but I have to take issue with his latest thesis, that the neocon ideological rigidity in foreign policy is equivalent to the intellectual rigidity of French post-structuralism and post-Marxism and that both are equally dangerous. My issue certainly […]
As a follow up to my post on the yuan last week, I should point out that Paul Krugman has addressed the issue in his op-ed today. Perhaps trying to coopt the move of Democrats to focus on China as an economic scapegoat, Bush has been sending Treasury Secretary snow to China to try to […]
Brian Whittaker pulls through with a good discussion of the anti-Shiite car bombing:
The killing of Ayatollah Hakim, the country’s most prominent Shia cleric, has been likened to murdering the Pope, but it’s more serious than that because popes these days have little real influence.
Ayatollah Hakim was also head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution […]