by John Glaser | Feb 7, 2012 | News
Via As’ad AbuKhalil, Hugh Gusterson has written a piece well worth a read. Excerpt: As the last American soldiers left Iraq in December, so, too, did many of the journalists who had covered the war, leaving little in the way of media coverage of post-war Iraq....
by John Glaser | Oct 26, 2011 | News
It’s amazing to see the roundabout justifications in the media regarding the Obama administration’s increasingly close relationship with Uzbekistan and its monstrous dictator Islam Karimov. As I’ve written previously, the Uzbek government is one of...
by John Glaser | Oct 10, 2011 | News
In one sense, it isn’t a surprise that politics attracts the biggest dip-shits around. In another sense, though, it is extremely troubling that American politics – perhaps now more than ever – has become a celebration of stupidity and ignorance...
by John Glaser | Oct 4, 2011 | News
Stewart Levey and Christy Clark have a recent piece in Foreign Policy arguing that (1) targeted, punitive economic sanctions imposed on so-called rogue states by the US and the UN Security Council are effective and (2) the US and the UN should do more to enforce...
by Alison Weir | Sep 14, 2011 | News
While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America’s new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.In a recent speech before the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), Ambassador Daniel Shapiro...
