Mon, May 21, 2012

Diplomacy Around the Web

 

The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin Problem Worsens

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago

To follow up on Ali Gharib’s thorough post detailing Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin’s continuing problems with the truth, it’s worth taking a step back from the concrete details of the story for a moment. Rubin’s latest fibs — in which she mistakenly blamed Islamic militants for the…

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Former Intelligence Chief Calls for End to Drone War

Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Noah Shachtman has the story about Adm. Dennis Blair, the former Director of National Intelligence, who just called for a sweeping reconsideration of U.S. strategy in what used to be called the “global war on terror”. In particular, Blair questioned the effectiveness of U.S. drone strikes,…

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Anders Behrin Breivik and Islamophobic Right

Posted 10 months ago

I’ve held off on commenting on the mass murders in Norway. Partly this was simply the result of a busy weekend (and I still can’t claim that I’ve managed to plow through more than a fraction of Breivik’s 1500-page manifesto). But partly it was from a sense of unease with how easily these kind of…

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