Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
The strange dust-up over ‘Beat the Press’ – News – The Phoenix: Personally, if blogging didn’t come with any media attention of any sort, I’d be happier. I deliberately followed my heart in my English BA and avoided the Journalism concentration like the plague. I liked poetry. That sort of writing you do in a […]
MoreFiredoglake 1976-1978: General Services Officer, Niamey, Niger 1978-1979: Administrative Office, Lomé, Togo 1979-1981: Administrative Officer, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. 1981-1982: Administrative Officer, Pretoria, South Africa 1982-1985: Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Bujumbura, Burundi 1985-1986: Congressional Fellow, offices of Senator Al Gore and Representative Tom Foley 1986-1988: DCM, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo 1988-1991: DCM, […]
MoreAccusations Fly After the Pierre Gemayel Assassination: Accusations Fly After the Pierre Gemayel Assassination By Andrew McGregor In the aftermath of the war with Israel, Hezbollah and its allies (the Shiite Amal Party and Christian leader General Michel Aoun) are struggling to depose the Lebanese government of Sunni Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his March […]
MoreJust an abdication of any sense of journalism. Tip is twirling in his grave. Three things that are most troubling about this goddamned case lately: 1: Lawrence O’Donnell at the end of this summer, all of a sudden declares on Olbermann’s Countdown program that it’s all over(the Fitzgerald case) and that it was much ado […]
MoreNew York Magazine: When in Rome * By Mark Adams For VII days, all roads seemed to lead to Rome. Emperor George Bush suffered an Et tu? moment when Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki stuck a last-minute dagger in his plans for a triumphant triumvirate dinner. The Baker-Hamilton commission recommended […]
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