Sunday Morning Needs a Real War Debate

This alert just came in from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): Tell NBC: Sunday Morning Needs a Real War Debate Meet the Press features a parade of Afghanistan hawks The war in Afghanistan has re-emerged as a major news story, thanks to the controversies...

Thursday’s Iran Daily Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 5th, 2010: Washington Post: Columnist David Ignatius sat in on a journalists’ session with President Barack Obama. Obama related that he was ready to resume negotiations with Iran over the...

Uganda’s Detached Outrage

This week in totally f*cking insane Somalia news, Ugandan officials declare their utter shock at the random, unprovoked attacks on Kampala last week which killed over 70 people. As the very first sentence in a long and entertaining piece in AllAfrica.com says,...

The Everybody’s-Doing-It Dodge

On his Twitter feed, Glenn Greenwald commends Rep. Barney Frank for these recent comments: In an interview with the Boston Herald, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said that that “‘as a Jew,’ Israeli treatment of Arabs around some of the West Bank...