Month: June 2005

The MSM. What’s Holding Them Back?

Can you imagine what it’s like to be the editor of a team of investigative reporters? Can you fathom what it would be like to decide the investigatory priorities of a team as talented and experienced as the sleuths at the NYT,...

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Can we work together?

There were some commenters on my Iraq diary, especially some of the last posters, who seemed to be presenting a level of hostility that went beyond “I strongly disagree with you on this issue” to “you’re...

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An Existential Political Question

Editor’s Note: John Stuart Mill is known elsewhere as “Ben P” Knowing what you know in 2005, as a liberal (or a progressive, or a radical, or a moderate, or a leftist, or a center-leftist), would you have:...

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US Plans for Iraq Oil Before 9/11

Once the Downing Street Minutes begins to seep into the American psyche people may just wake up to the fact that we’ve been had. When that begins to happen, many ugly facts about the administration will be reexamined with...

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