The New York Times provides the rationale for this week’s US strike against “terrorists” in Syria: …American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provided a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries’ consent. Such actions are illegal under international law…
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Pakistan from the inside
New, interesting voices in the blogosphere should be celebrated. Danielle Ali Shah is an “Australian living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with my husband, three children and extended family.” A recent post, “Digging through the land in the land of the pure“, discusses the rawness of life in Pakistan.
Watching the clueless squirm
Former CIA agent “Werther” explains what a likely Obama victory would do to the usual suspects in the US political and media establishment: The American political system also perceives cases of countries “testing” or “challenging” the United States in many instances where the country in question has a perfect right to pursue its own policies…
History always repeats
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Sleepwalkers, Les Temps Modernes, April 1962: “… For seven years, France has been a mad dog dragging a saucepan tied to its tail, every day unaware that we have ruined, starved and massacred a nation of poor people to bring them to their knees. They remained standing. But at what a price!…
Newspapers are in serious trouble
Andrew Sullivan, despite being a blogger evangelist, like myself, knows trouble when he sees it: The latest data are more than worrying. These declines in circulation have come during one of the most riveting campaign stories in modern times. If the news of the last twelve months cannot sell papers, nothing can. And online advertizing…
How to stay ahead of the news
Is blogging dead? (asks a bemused BBC writer.) Of course it’s not; it’s simply adapting to new frontiers. Journalism is being forced to better report the news and not rely on the outdated language of producing an article. The solution? I agree with Jeff Jarvis, writing in the Guardian, who advocates for a more inclusive…
The future of us?
How could the human body adjust itself to the design of products? Artist Marcia Nolte imagines such a development, including, below, an extended shoulder for holding a phone: