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 […]
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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 […] As a follow-up to the post about the various rock artists evidently uniting against Bush, Juan Cole has a fine assessment of something that may disappoint them. It appears neither Kerry-Edwards nor the Dems as a whole are going to attack Bush on the Iraq war. Steve Chapman at Slate takes a look at […] Peter Bergen is CNN’s terrorism analyst and wrote an account of bin Laden and al Qaeda that even the National Review Book Service calls “definitive” and “essential reading“. In light of Dubya’s assertions that “the American people are safer” because of the Iraq war, check out Bergen’s recent article about the impact of the […] The Justice Department’s release of previously classified information regarding Jose Padilla has prompted a remarkable number of items worth reading. Clearly leading the list is Dahlia Lithwick’s insightful and devastating review at Slate. Equally as good is this op-ed piece by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post. (Via The War in Context). There is also […] |
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