In one of his oldĀ "Turning the Tide" blogs at ZNet ("Iraq and Vietnam,"Ā June 10, 2004), Noam Chomsky wrote that he didn'tĀ "see much…
A friend once asked me whether I might be able to find any of the records of the U.S. Senate Committee on…
"Make no mistake," Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin proclaimed in a kind of liberalĀ manifesto posted a couple of day ago to…
On this 43rd-month anniversary of Operation Iraq Freedom,Ā a couple of questions for everyone. First, to what extent do you suppose the…
For the blessings of freedom and democracy, no price is too high for the Americans to askāno, to demandāthe Iraqis to…
Madame President, excellencies, heads of state, heads of government, high representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of…
TheĀ important study "Human rights abuse and other criminal violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey of households,"Ā by Athena Kolbe and Royce Hutson…
Last Friday, September 8, the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligenceāauthor in July 2004 of the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's…
The fifth annual Transatlantic Trends survey of U.S. and European "public opinion" was released just the other day, on September 6.Ā (And…
Two recent opinion surveys by the U.S.-based Harris Interactive Company caught my eye. Both were released on August 30–to very little fanfare,…
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