Archive for March, 2008

World’s worst nuclear proliferator? Better stay away from mirrors

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world. North Korea? Put those missiles back in your pants. Iraq? Wipe that nuclear smirk off your face. Iran? No nuclear for you at all.Read the full story

Does Obama advisor Power know a monster when she sees one?

Friday, March 7th, 2008

She's since become one of Obama's main foreign policy advisors. Now Ms. Power may have become a "Problem from Hell" (the title of her classic book) for the Obama campaign. But bear in mind that she is likely the last person to toss around the word "monster" lightly. Her ...

Laptop of mass destruction

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

It looks like, even though there isn't much meat on it, the US will continue to gnaw on the Iran bone. Let's just hope we don't crunch through and wind up with splinters in our mouth.Read the full story

Pushing the envelope of journalism until it’s inside-out

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

If Afghanistan was Russia's Vietnam, Chechnya is its Iraq. A candidate for bravest woman of this young century, Anna Politkovskaya paid the ultimate price for her reporting on how much the Chechnyan people have suffered.Read the full story