Archive for February, 2010
Tony Blair: Experiments With Untruth
(1) Here’s the London Times, reporting on Tony Blair‘s appearance before the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war: Tony Blair’s claims that Iran now poses as serious a threat as Saddam Hussein‘s Iraq have been dismissed as a “piece of spin” by the British ambassador to Tehran. Sir Richard Dalton was fiercely [...]
R.I.P., Howard Zinn
Here’s historian and political activist Howard Zinn, who passed away last week, evaluating President Obama after one year in office, for The Nation, which asked contributors: “Looking back at President Obama’s first year in office, what do you think the high point has been? And what has been your sharpest moment of disappointment?” I’ve been [...]