Seeing a photograph of USA Today founder Al Neuharth above the fold in the edition of his newspaper that reported his death calls to mind a rather famous story about Neuharth’s outburst at a 1983 USA Today editorial meeting. … Read More
The World May Never Know: Dzhokhar “Clings To Life”
A hospital spokesperson said early this morning that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was still alive … Read More
Chechnya: Republic of Contrasts (RT Documentary)
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Should liberals feel nostalgia for the old-school left?
“The tradition of all the dead generations,” Marx wrote 150 years ago, “weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” Today, with our politics trapped in capitalism’s endless fugue state, the nightmare that troubled Marx may seem to contemporary left-wingers like a pleasant dream of days gone by. At least the dead generations took Marx seriously. At least they had a powerful labor movement and center-left parties that believed in the welfare state. And at least Ralph Miliband, the dead leftist whose son is the living leader of Britain’s Labour Party, would never have answered a question about capitalism with a grudging obeisance to the creative power of BlackBerry.It’s easy to get nostalgic.Continue Reading… … Read More
Empathy for Boston, from Iraqi children
On April 15, 2013, in Boston, three people were killed when two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. Over 144 were wounded. Doctors performed at least 10 amputations on those injured.The same day, in the cities of Baghdad, Fallujah and Kirkuk in Iraq, there were “serial blasts.” Fourteen car bombs and three roadside bombs went off. Thirty-three people were killed and over 160 were wounded.The two boys understand far too well what it is like in the immediate aftermath of a terror attack. In their lives, there has been numerous acts of violence as a result of terrorism and U.S. forces waging war and occupation.The boys not only stand in solidarity with the victims of the Boston explosions, but they also empathize because this is what they’ve experienced. Part of this message is being shared with Americans because they want them to know they understand the pain Americans are going through.The Boston explosions received far greater attention than the attacks in Iraq yesterday. They continue to receive much more attention than the car bombs that went off in Iraq today.Continue Reading… … Read More
New Yorkers on alert but calm after Boston attacks
Vigilant but calm, New Yorkers were unfazed Tuesday by heightened security measures imposed after the Boston bombings even as the blasts revived memories of the devastating September 11, 2001 attacks. “It’s just life today after 9/11,” an investment manager, who would only give…
Howard Kurtz refutes Fox News pundit: ‘Conservative media didn’t do much’ on Gosnell case
CNN media critic Howard Kurtz on Sunday pushed back against a Fox News pundit who slammed the “deafening silence of too much of the media” over coverage of a Philadelphia doctor accused of killing seven babies and one woman while performing late-term abortions. In a USA Today column…
