Last night's PBS NewsHour featured a debate on the nomination of Leon Panetta to be CIA Director. The participants were two Antiwar.com contributors: former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former CIA official Michael Scheuer. Judy Woodruff was the interviewer. I found...
TV From Around the World: On Your PC
Want to see first-hand reporting from Gaza? Al-Jazeera's team was there before journalists were banned. Want to watch English-language TV news from Pakistan, India, Iran, Russia, Korea? Want to watch Hezbollah TV without your provider going to prison? Want to watch...
Why Not Kill All Gazans?
Reading the justifications that Israeli supporters are offering for the IDF assault, I don't see any rationale being offered that would not justify killing everyone in Gaza. If a single rocket is fired from Gaza territory, does that mean that everyone living in that...
They Lob Chutzpah Bombs Too
A funny little essay in a local newspaper came to my attention this morning. During an email discussion over the events and motives in the Gaza crisis, a friend of mine forwarded part of an op-ed piece that appeared in this week's Sun Sentinel, a daily newspaper in...
What’s the SOFA Say About Shooting a Deaf Girl?
Just hours after the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in Iraq took effect, we reported that American forces shot a civilian woman in Baghdad. Such a shooting was expected to be a big test for the SOFA, which ostensibly was meant to prevent the US from shooting and...
Heilbrunn Reviews Neo-Con Travails
Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, which is related to the Nixon Center, has written two very interesting articles on the plight of the neo-cons after the Republican debacle in November that are well worth a read. The first, published on the journal’s blog...
