On this last morning of the last day of a year many of us could have done without, I remote controlled my TV for a breakfast news fix. CNN was clucking about the heartbreaks in the markets and fortunes lost, while CBS radio featured a story about a stockbroker who was CHARGING $100 bucks to [...]
The countdown to the New Year has begun. Judging from President Bush’s ranch side declaration, the US is not leaving Afghanistan anytime soon. When the US creaates a base it usally stays there unless and until it is forced out or the lease expires. That is what happened in the Phillipines. That, you will recall, [...]
I don’t know if NATION media columnist Michael Massing’s decision to end his regular press watch column was voluntary or not, but since the War on Terror is anything but over, it seems like media critics still have a lot of work to do. The job of keeping up with the maze of contradictions, false [...]
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