Topic of Cancer One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, he’s throwing up backstage at The Daily Show, in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar country—with its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer. JOINING THE RESISTANCE? The humor is…
WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back By Scott Horton WikiLeaks’ disclosure of the 91,000 U.S. government documents that it labels the “Afghan War Diary” raises a number of vital issues. Most of the discussion so far has focused on the significance of the documents themselves. They make the intelligence community look not so intelligent, and…
By Alexander Hotz Why WikiLeaks and the Mainstream Media Still Need Each Other Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington. The July 25th release of 92,000 military documents…
Losing hearts and minds they never had By Clayton Swisher in Asia 82nd Airborne soldiers in Arghandab Photo by Tom Nicholson Fighting the Taliban in Arghandab – where much of its history is based – is like taking on the Italian Mafia in Sicily. As far as war goes in Afghanistan, it remains one of…
Neocons Hoping Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out Justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this…
Forest fires in Russia Hundreds of thousands of firefighters are battling forest fires across western and central Russia in the worst heatwave for decades. Homes have been destroyed, wildlife and farm stock lost and more than 30 people have died
President Lula can convince increased investment in rural development.
Huguette Clark may be the wealthiest person you’ve never heard of. She’s certainly one of the most mysterious. The 104-year-old heiress owns sprawling estates in California and Connecticut, as well as one of the largest apartments on New York’s Fifth Avenue. But, according to a very buzzy report from NBC’s “The Today Show,” Ms. Clarke…
A Palestinian woman sits outside houses damaged in an explosion in the central Gaza Strip Aug. 2, 2010. Hamas blamed Israel for the explosion, though the Israeli military denied involvement Militants allegedly in Egypt, launched several missiles into Israel Monday morning, joining a wave of violence between Israel and Gaza over the weekend that has…
Pablo Escobar liked to relax at Hacienda Napoles. Now it’s a tourist attraction