Sat 4 Jul 2009
Glenn Greenwald Salon 7/04/09
Today is the ideal day to celebrate America’s specialness, and America’s paper of record inspirationally leads the ritual:
Clark Hoyt, New York Times Public Editor, April 26, 2009:
A LINGUISTIC shift took place in this newspaper (more…)
Fri 3 Jul 2009
William Blum The Anti-Empire Report 7/03/09
What is there about the Iranian election of June 12 that has led to it being one of the leading stories in media around the world every day since? Elections whose results are seriously challenged have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades. (more…)
Fri 3 Jul 2009
A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands
By Chalmers Johnson TomDispatch 7/02/09
The U.S. Empire of Bases — at $102 billion a year already the world’s costliest military enterprise — just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new “embassy” in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don’t occur, than the Vatican-City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad. (more…)
Thu 2 Jul 2009
Glenn Greenwald Salon 7/02/09
There are several noteworthy developments since I wrote on Tuesday about the refusal of NPR’s Ombdusman, Alica Shepard, to be interviewed by me about NPR’s ban on using the word “torture” to describe the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics. (more…)
Wed 1 Jul 2009