If you wonder what you’ll be missing when newspapers vanish, consider two stories that appeared in morning newspapers that have yet to make it to the online geniuses who will decide the content of alternative journalism in the near future. Both examples deal with the infuriating decisions rendered by the bureaucrats in the service of [...]
WHAAAT?
April 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: barack obama · cold war · david axelrod · Los Angeles Times · luong vu · new york times · norm eisen · orange county · rahm emanuel · tom malinowski · vietnam
Obama, Turkey and History
April 7th, 2009 No Comments
For those of us who have lived abroad for many years and despaired of the way the image and reputation of the United States had been tarnished during the past eight years, it was a welcome relief to hear the message delivered by Barack Obama in Turkey. From the podium of the National Assembly in [...]
Tags: Ankara · Baikonur · barack obama · cold war · Cyprus · Francis Gary Powers · Korean War · Palestinians · Turkey · U.S.S.R.
News From the Muddled East
April 3rd, 2009 No Comments
When I first visited the Golan Heights as a reporter a few weeks after Israel captured it in 1967 and walked through the rubble of what remained of the Syrian army, I could not imagine that 42 years later, the territory would still be central to a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But to read [...]
Tags: barack obama · Binyamin Netanyahu · frank stanton · golan heights · india · israel · kashmir · middle east · New Yorker · pakistan · seymour hersh · syria
Here We Go Again in Mexico
March 25th, 2009 No Comments
It will be high on the news budget the next few days as the visit of the Secretary of State and her assemblage of experts are pursued by a horde of reporters. No doubt, the focus will be on the drug war and the misplaced notion that somehow Mexico is close to being a failed [...]
Tags: barack obama · drugs · Enrique Krauze · Felipe Calderon · freedom of information act · Hillary Clinton · Mexico · Mexico City · Vicente Fox
