Month: June 2007

Regarding recent events in Gaza, Ben White, a freelance British journalist specializing in Palestine/Israel, writing in The Electronic Intifada on 19 June 2007 in an article entitled, Decoding the media’s Palestinian...

Memo to Reid-Pelosi: In the scariest news for the Democratic candidates seeking their party’s nomination in 2008, even rank-and-file Democrats are unhappy with Congress, which is narrowly controlled by their party. Only 27...

Michael R. Gordon of the New York Times tells us that after four years of playing whack-a-mole, in which insurgents and terrorists sneak away live to fight another day, U.S. forces are changing tactics.  It seems they...

Are Americans Unready to Boil? Joel S. Hirschhorn The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression....

Turkey’s military and government are fed up with what they see as state sponsored terrorism by Iraq’s Kurds. Turkey has claimed the right to create a militarized buffer zone in Northern Iraq to protects against...