The Independent on the Nobel Peace Prize: compare and contrast.
From an article published today, on Vladimir Putin’s nomination for the prize: ‘Despite Russia’s role as the main supplier of weapons to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an advocacy group has put the...
View ArticleDon’t mention the ‘P’ word.
A story from Reuters, on how ISAF and USAID are anonymously funding radio and T.V. commercials in Afghanistan, which feature supposedly ‘ordinary Afghans’ imploring Hamid Karzai to sign the Bi-lateral...
View ArticleThe Telegraph’s Richard Spencer and his doublethink on Syria.
In his latest dispatch from Aleppo, in which he documents some of the horrors of the conflict in Syria, we find these three paragraphs, one directly following the other. The first two: ‘Let us not...
View ArticleEx-NYT editor Jill Abramson on how flak and ‘anti-terrorism’ help discipline...
She didn’t quite put it in those words, but it’s essentially what she’s saying: that the U.S. government would contact the New York Times and tell them that publishing this, that or the other story...
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