“Buying the War” was finally broadcast last night and it may well be called Moyers’ finest work ever. In “Buying the War” Moyers presents a sobering inside look at how nearly the entire journalist profession shirked its most basic tenets and became complicit in pushing the US into a war based almost entirely on lies. [...]
I had been closely following the saga of James Kim. I was greatly saddened when I read that they had found his body. So sad, best wishes to his family.
You may have heard of the case of the six Imams but what you probably haven't heard is the reports from some of the passengers, check out the followup story from Pajamas Media. According to Pajamas Media a number of the passengers on the plane made repeated complaints including one Arabic speaking passenger who said [...]
Ran across a wonderful post on the interesting people mailing list. Ted Nelson, the legend himself , writes of his latest experience going through airport security. I quote for those too engaged to click on over: Hi Dave– Last week I went through security at Newark. I had just put my carry-on, pocket stuff, [...]
The upper east side is a complete zoo, seems as though a small plane hit an apartment building on 72nd St and York Ave, Police & Fire responding like champs as usual. Yankee's pitcher Cory Lidle was on the plane and thought to have been the pilot.
I remember Sept 11th like it was just yesterday. I was supposed to be at a meeting near the World Trade Center that morning around 10. A meeting in Stamford, CT went longer than expected and I had to miss that meeting. I still remember a co-worker interrupting the meeting to tell us that the [...]
Here are some more heart wrenching pictures of 9/11. Particularly heartbreaking is the story of Bill Biggart as well as his pictures.
Fascinating reading over at: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2607.shtml
Recently Frontline had and episode titled Tankman. The episode explored the question of what ever happened to the man who stood in front of a tank during the protests in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Go see it over at the PBS website at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/ and marvel that great TV still gets made.
A fascinating little piece by Victor David Hanson, classicist and author of such works as Ripples of the Battle and A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, over at the National Review. Hanson’s basic thesis is that Iran and Iran’s president (& indeed many in the third world) [...]