The internet – circa 2007 – according to xkcd. As some of you have no doubt heard, the Washington Post is having a contest for a new, 13-piece weekly columnist gig. The blogosphere is justifiably upset – irate and scornful, even – that the Post didn’t take this opportunity to give a tip of the hat to the ol’ Internet. [...]
…And now they’re backtracking. Seriously, people, don’t you think you should have thought this through before you suspended civil liberties? It’s not like a temporary glitch on a website that you fix as soon as you can; you took away people’s rights. If the situation were grave enough to require that level of intervention, it wouldn’t be resolvable in a [...]
Well, my print article’s latest draft is pretty much screwed as Honduras’s interim government has declared a 45-day state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and eliminating any hope of viable elections anytime soon. I’d criticized the UN for withdrawing support for those elections. It looks like they were totally right, though it might have been better to wait a bit [...]
Like many people who keep The Washington Post and The New York Times minimized on their screens, I noticed immediately when ABC, Fox, and BBC reported on the facebook poll that asked if “Obama should be killed.” Though it was taken down Saturday as soon as the company discovered its existence, the Secret Service is investigating the situation. The poll–which [...]
While this may not be an issue of international policy, I think it’s a pretty interesting discussion. As a non smoker i have no real stake in the issue. But as many have heard there has been a ban on flavored cigarettes because it markets smoking to teens. I just don’t get that – if you’re 18 you’re allowed to [...]
In the end, it was Switzerland that caught up with Roman Polanski. As the Washington Post’s Applebaum, blogger for Post Partisan, points out “why was it Switzerland — the country that traditionally guarded the secret bank accounts of international criminals and corrupt dictators — that finally decided to arrest Roman Polanski?” The 31-year-old case was closed this weekend with the [...]
Boy, do some people get it wrong. Although Michael Gerson gets a lot of things wrong. Thankfully, not everyone is so myopic. Ezra Klein responds: What’s striking is that this doesn’t really describe the Internet. Hateful voices remain on the fringe. And they stay on the fringe. The beauty of the Internet is that it’s pretty much all fringe. Controlling [...]
The question of the Honduran crisis is both perplexing and extremely frustrating – perplexing at a legal level with respect to judging what happened, what should have happened, and what should happen in the future. But it’s frustrating with respect to what is actually unfolding. The global response has been knee-jerk, the coverage in this country poor, and the events [...]
The full text of President Obama’s speech can be found here. In it, he declares that “We must embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and our work must begin now.” This message of interdependence is quite stirring, of course (and I intend no sarcasm), but a couple other things happened at the UN [...]
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2009/09/debating-afghanistan.html For those of you who dont know Abu Muqawama is Andrew Exum a leader in US counterinsurgency policy.
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