May 31, 2004

The Manipulator

A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation?
by Jane Mayer [New Yorker]
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Posted by cds at 12:41 PM | Politics

Security Cannot Be Spun

By John Gruber [Daring Fireball]
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Posted by cds at 12:54 AM | Punditry

May 28, 2004

To Tell the Truth

OP-ED COLUMNIST
By Paul Krugman [NY Times]
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Posted by cds at 12:49 PM | Punditry

History’s Fools

POLITICS & PROSE
In the wake of Iraq, the term “neo-conservative” may come to mean “dangerous innocence about world realities”
by Jack Beatty [The Atlantic]
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Posted by cds at 12:36 AM | Politics

May 27, 2004

The History of Zork

by Tim Anderson & Stu Galley [New Zork Times]
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Posted by cds at 05:28 PM | Tech

‘On Paradise Drive’: Sociology or Shtick?

By Michael Kinsley [NY Times]
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Posted by cds at 05:28 PM | Culture

Bill Moyers

The seventy-year-old journalist—whose new collection of speeches and essays arrives in bookstores this month—on why he’s parting ways with pbs, what it was like to work for lbj, and whether objectivity is all it’s cracked up to be.
Interview by Evan Smith [Texas Monthly]
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Posted by cds at 05:28 PM | Politics

The Hersh Alternative

He’s spent a lifetime butting heads with the official version of reality. What does a career like Seymour Hersh’s say about Washington—and about journalism itself?
By Bob Thompson [Wash Post]
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Posted by cds at 01:51 PM | Politics

May 18, 2004

Locked in Abu Ghraib

WAR STORIES
The prison scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush administration.
By Fred Kaplan [Slate]
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Posted by cds at 02:06 AM | Politics

May 17, 2004

Stop blaming your henchmen, Mr. President.

THE BUCK STOPS … WHERE?
By Fred Kaplan [Slate]
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Posted by cds at 12:44 PM | Punditry

May 16, 2004

The Gray Zone

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
by Seymour M. Hersh [New Yorker]
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Posted by cds at 04:26 PM | Politics

May 11, 2004

Just Trust Us

By Paul Krugman [NY Times]
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Posted by cds at 01:37 PM | Punditry

May 10, 2004

Chain of Command

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib.
by Seymour M. Hersh [New Yorker]
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Posted by cds at 02:47 PM | Politics

May 07, 2004

This is the new gulag

COMMENT
Bush has created a global network of extra-legal and secret u.s. prisons with thousands of inmates
By Sidney Blumenthal [Guardian]
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Posted by cds at 01:26 AM | Punditry

May 04, 2004

How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons

The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with close ties to Israel. Now the Israel deal is dead, he’s cozying up to Iran—and his patrons look like they’re on the way out. A Salon exclusive.
By John Dizard [Salon]
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Posted by cds at 12:53 PM | Politics

May 03, 2004

Torture at Abu Ghraib

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?
by Seymour M. Hersh [New Yorker]
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Posted by cds at 12:12 PM | Politics