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Just back from a quick vacation squeezed (as usual) between the end of summer activities and the beginning of school-related activities. As a result, just starting to catch up on news, blogs, etc. A few items: I have two e-mail addresses with a particular ISP — one is private (known only to certain friends […] Lots of good stuff the past few days: Walter Laqueur’s lengthy but excellent examination of sources of terrorism. (Via Arts & Letters Daily). William Watkins’ assessment of civil liberties this election season appearing at History News Network. Just for the sake of balance, I note HNN also has this slightly less recent column rebutting some […] Bob Harris, guest blogging at Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World, tells us about National Preparedness Month. Isn’t it surprising the run-up and announcement are scheduled to coincide with the GOP convention and the anniversary of September 11? Juan Cole is indispensable on how we outed an al Qaeda double agent and the potential ramifications. […] Jonathan Schell’s column about how peace was conspicuously absent from the DNC. Somewhat along the same lines is Bob Herbert’s column in Monday’s NY Times about how neither Kerry or Bush really want to talk about the grim facts facing the US. Billmon’s post on the recent amazing series of coincidences in the “war […] Paul Krugman on the trivialization of political news coverage. (John Stewart also gave a perfect example on Thursday’s The Daily Show as he skewered the media’s treatment of Al Sharpton’s speech using the media itself.) Juan Cole’s Informed Comment is one of several blogs for which I receive RSS feeds. Every day I become […] |
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